CTI Vitae (CONCYTEC): Registering and Maintaining Your Peru Researcher CV

CTI Vitae is CONCYTEC’s national researcher-CV platform for Peru, and the only place a RENACYT application can be built or submitted. Everything CONCYTEC scores — your degrees, your indexed articles, your patents, your books, your supervised theses — is scored from what sits in your CTI Vitae record on the day an evaluator opens it. This guide covers what the platform is (including why so many people still search for it as DINA), how to register, how ORCID and Scopus actually connect to it, and the exact point value the RENACYT Reglamento attaches to each type of entry you make.

Quick answer

CTI Vitae (ctivitae.concytec.gob.pe/appDirectorioCTI) is CONCYTEC’s virtual platform holding self-reported curricula vitae for people active in Peru’s science, technology and innovation system. The RENACYT Reglamento defines it in Anexo N° 3 as exactly that: “una plataforma virtual del CONCYTEC cuya base de datos registra información autorreferenciada de hojas de vida”. Three things follow from that definition and matter more than anything else on this page:

• Everything you enter is a sworn declaration. Article 6.3 of the Reglamento gives the information you submit through the platform the character of a Declaración Jurada; falsified or altered entries found in CONCYTEC’s post-hoc verification trigger administrative and legal action, and are grounds for exclusion from RENACYT under Article 13.
• Articles imported from ORCID are not counted. CONCYTEC’s published RENACYT FAQ states plainly that for qualification purposes, articles imported via ORCID are not considered — Scopus articles must be imported using your Scopus Author ID, and Web of Science and SciELO articles must be entered manually. This single rule silently zeroes the production score of applicants who populate their CV the obvious way.
• There is no deadline. Requests run year-round under Ventanilla Abierta, in effect since 28 February 2022. CONCYTEC has 30 business days to respond, extendable by up to 20 more — the “30 to 50 business days” figure quoted in its own FAQ.

CTI Vitae is the CV platform. RENACYT is the register your CV is evaluated into. They are not the same system, and the distinction decides which one you should be reading about — see below.

CTI Vitae and DINA: the same platform, two names

A large share of the search traffic for this platform still uses the older name, DINA — CONCYTEC’s Directorio Nacional de Investigadores. The rename to CTI Vitae did not change the system underneath it, and CONCYTEC’s own infrastructure still carries the old label in several visible places:

• The application lives at the path /appDirectorioCTI/ and its page heading reads “Directorio de Recursos Humanos afines a la CTI”.
• The registration module on that page describes itself as being for “nuevos usuarios que desean pertenecer al Directorio Nacional de Investigadores, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica de CONCYTEC”.
• The user manual CONCYTEC links from its own RENACYT FAQ is hosted at a URL ending /manual-dina/.
• The ORCID sign-in flow in the live application passes an internal parameter tipoIngreso=DINA.

If you were told to “update your DINA”, you were told to update your CTI Vitae record. There is nothing to migrate and no second account to create. Note that CONCYTEC’s manual site sits behind a Google Workspace sign-in for the concytec.gob.pe domain and may not open for external visitors; the substantive rules are in the Reglamento and the RENACYT FAQ, both of which are public.

CTI Vitae vs RENACYT: which one you actually need

These two are constantly conflated, including in Peruvian institutional guidance. The split is clean once you see it:

• CTI Vitae is the data source. It is a CV platform. Anyone active in Peru’s CTI system can hold a CTI Vitae record without ever applying for anything. Holding one confers no status.
• RENACYT is the classification. It is a register with legal effect, administered by CONCYTEC, that qualifies and tiers individual researchers. You cannot apply to it except through CTI Vitae, and evaluators score only what your CTI Vitae record contains and evidences.

So: if your question is “what level am I, what are the tiers, and how does the register work” — read RENACYT: Peru’s National Registry of Researchers Explained. If your question is “what do I type into which field, what evidence do I attach, and why did my article not count” — that is this page.

Structurally, CTI Vitae is a national researcher-profile platform rather than an institutional CRIS, and its closest regional analogue is Brazil’s Plataforma Lattes behind CNPq. Readers who know the Indian ecosystem will recognise the same shape in VIDWAN and IRINS: a national identity-and-CV layer that funding and assessment systems read from.

Registering on CTI Vitae

What the registration form asks for

Self-registration on the public CTI Vitae page requires three fields — document type, document number, and date of birth — followed by validation against RENIEC, Peru’s civil identity registry. Your document number becomes your username. Password recovery is by the email address held on the record, so an address you still control is the single most important field you will ever enter.

A limitation worth knowing before you try: as served, the document-type selector on that public form offers only DNI. The Reglamento (Article 3.3) expressly makes foreign researchers eligible when they hold a documented commitment with a Peruvian entity, but we could not verify an alternative document type on the public self-registration form. Foreign applicants should start from CONCYTEC’s dedicated “Condición de investigador extranjero” route on the RENACYT service portal and contact [email protected] rather than assuming the standard form will accept a passport or carné de extranjería. Do not take a workaround from a third-party blog on this point.

Signing in with ORCID

The live CTI Vitae login page does offer an ORCID sign-in option, which authorises CONCYTEC to read your ORCID iD record. This is genuinely useful for account access and for keeping your identifiers consistent across systems. It is not a way to populate your scored production — see the next section, which is the most expensive misunderstanding on this platform.

The ORCID trap, and how imports actually work

CONCYTEC’s RENACYT FAQ answers this directly and unambiguously: for RENACYT qualification, articles imported via ORCID are not considered. The rules that do apply:

• Scopus articles must be imported using your Scopus Author ID. In the platform: Producción Científica → Importar Trabajo → Scopus → Buscar, then select the items that are genuinely yours, verify them, and finish.
• Web of Science and SciELO articles must be entered by hand: Producción Científica → Publicaciones, type of work “Artículo en revista científica”, and set “Indexado en” to Web of Science or SciELO as appropriate, including the article URL, then save.
• If you have two Scopus Author IDs, merge them in Scopus before importing, or the import will only ever see half your record. CONCYTEC’s FAQ puts the Scopus merge turnaround at roughly two to four days.

This is a real divergence from international practice, where ORCID is normally the canonical feed into a national CV system. If you maintain your publication list in ORCID and expected CTI Vitae to inherit it, budget time to redo the import through Scopus and to key in your WoS and SciELO items manually. The general concept — one researcher identifier resolving to a verified body of work — still holds; CONCYTEC has simply chosen Scopus as the trusted channel.

One further exclusion that catches Web of Science users: only the WoS Core Collection counts, specifically Science Citation Index Expanded, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index. Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) is explicitly not considered.

The production entries that decide your RENACYT level

The scoring table below is Tabla 1 of Anexo N° 1 of the RENACYT Reglamento, restated in English. It is the crosswalk between what you enter in CTI Vitae and the points an evaluator assigns. CONCYTEC revises this instrument periodically — always reconcile against the current published Reglamento before relying on a specific number.

Criterio Formación — maximum 10 points

Not cumulative. Only your highest degree or professional title counts, and it must be registered with SUNEDU or MINEDU.

• Doctorate — 10
• Master’s — 6
• Professional title (Título Profesional) — 4
• Bachelor’s degree or egresado — 2
• Proof of enrolment at a higher-education institution — 1

Two consequences the Reglamento and FAQ make explicit: a degree that is only “en trámite” at SUNEDU does not count, and holders of foreign degrees must complete SUNEDU’s Reconocimiento de Grados y/o Títulos procedure first. If no registered credential is found, this criterion scores zero — which does not by itself disqualify you.

Criterio Producción Total — mandatory, minimum 6 points

This is the criterion that decides whether you qualify at all. You must reach at least 6 points here (9 points if you are an undergraduate student), and at least one item must have been published or registered in the last three years. Miss either condition and you are not classified at any level, whatever your total score.

B. Indexed articles — Scopus, Web of Science Core Collection and SciELO only:

• Scopus/WoS article in a Q1 journal (Scimago or JCR) — 5
• Q2 — 4
• Q3 — 3
• Q4 — 2
• Conference proceedings indexed in Scopus/WoS, SciELO articles, and Scopus/WoS articles in journals with no quartile for that year — 1 each, capped at 10 points in total across your whole career

Quartile is assessed by the journal’s standing in the article’s year of publication, looked up by ISSN in Scimago (for Scopus) or JCR (for WoS). Where the quartile for a publication year has not yet been released, CONCYTEC’s FAQ describes applying the previous year’s quartile and updating the score later during an ex officio promotion — the example given in the published FAQ is 2022. For articles published before Scimago and JCR existed (pre-1997), the journal’s first assigned quartile is used.

Document type matters as much as venue. Editorials, letters to the editor, errata, posters, symposia, event abstracts, photo galleries, perspectives, viewpoints and reviews-as-commentary are not scientific articles for RENACYT purposes. Check the document type the database itself assigns before entering an item.

C. Registered intellectual property — granted and registered at INDECOPI or an equivalent foreign office. No maximum:

• Invention patent, plant breeder’s certificate (certificado de obtentor), or technology package (paquete tecnológico) — 3
• Utility model patent, or software copyright certificate — 1

D. Books and book chapters — capped at 10 points in total:

• Book — 2
• Book chapter — 1

Evidence requirements here are stricter than most applicants expect. For a Peruvian publisher you need the publisher’s attestation of external peer review, plus validation that the work is a research result from your Vicerrectorado de Investigación (or the equivalent body under your institution’s ROF), and the volume must carry an ISBN, a Depósito Legal registration number, a table of contents and a reference list. For an international publisher, the publisher’s peer-review attestation is the substantive requirement.

E. h-index (Scopus) — carries no points. It is a pass/fail condition, mandatory only for the top tier: h-index ≥ 10, taken from Scopus, is required for Investigador Distinguido and for nothing else.

Indicators B, C and D are alternatives: at least one must be satisfied. The 10-point caps on no-quartile/SciELO items and on books are career-wide, not per-application — additional items beyond the cap add nothing.

Criterio Asesoría — maximum 10 points

• Supervised or co-supervised a doctoral thesis — 2
• Master’s thesis — 1
• Bachelor’s degree or professional title thesis — 0.5

Only theses actually defended and approved count. Evidence is a link to the thesis in SUNEDU’s RENATI or in the institutional repository. Where neither exists, CONCYTEC accepts exactly one substitute document: the acta de sustentación de tesis. Resolutions appointing you as supervisor are explicitly not accepted. This criterion is not exclusionary — zero here does not block qualification.

A worked calculation

The following is an illustrative composite, not a real applicant. It exists to show how the caps and minimums interact.

A researcher holds a doctorate registered with SUNEDU (10). Their production is three Q2 articles (3 × 4 = 12), two Q3 articles (2 × 3 = 6), seven SciELO articles, and one book chapter. They have supervised two master’s theses (2 × 1 = 2) and four undergraduate theses (4 × 0.5 = 2).

The SciELO articles and the chapter share the 1-point band, and here total 8 points, under the 10-point cap. Producción Total therefore comes to 12 + 6 + 8 = 26, comfortably clear of the 6-point minimum, and at least one item must fall inside the last three years for “activo” status. Formación contributes 10, Asesoría 4. Total: 40 points — Nivel V on Tabla 3.

Change one thing: if that same researcher had 15 SciELO articles rather than seven, the extra eight would add nothing, because the band is capped at 10 career-wide. The way up from Nivel V is a Q1 or Q2 article, a granted patent, or a doctoral supervision — not more of the same 1-point items. That is the single most useful thing the point table tells you, and it is why the crosswalk is worth reading before you decide what to submit next year.

Submitting a request from CTI Vitae

Requests are initiated from buttons on the CTI Vitae home screen once your record is up to date. CONCYTEC recognises three request types:

• Incorporación — first-time qualification for someone with no RENACYT record.
• Promoción — an existing RENACYT researcher seeking a higher level.
• Mantenimiento Activo — an existing researcher maintaining, or returning to, “activo” status.

All three run through the same evaluation and the same clock: 30 business days from receipt in the platform, extendable by up to 20 additional business days. A successful outcome produces a Constancia de Registro carrying the qualification report number, emailed within five business days of the technical report; an unsuccessful one produces a Resolución Sub Directoral, also by email.

The order of operations matters: verify and update the record first, then open the request. Evaluators score the record as it stands when the request is received. Researchers still holding the legacy María Rostworowski or Carlos Monge Medrano categories select Promoción — once — to move onto the current scale; CONCYTEC states there is no equivalence mapping between the 2018 categories and the current levels.

Staying “activo” — the rule most people get wrong

Classification and activity status are two separate things, and CTI Vitae is where the second one is maintained.

Under Article 5.4, an investigador activo is one with permanent scientific or technological output — articles, IP registrations or technology packages, books or chapters — in the three years preceding qualification, or alternatively participation in peer-evaluated CTI projects. Article 5.5 puts the duty to keep CTI Vitae current squarely on the researcher, and DEGC verifies the condition either on request or de oficio. Three consecutive years without output moves you to no activo; recovering “activo” requires a fresh Mantenimiento Activo request evidencing output in the previous three years.

Three details that are rarely explained in English:

• “Activo afiliado” is a third state. Where your output is associated with the principal institution declared in your CTI Vitae record, your status is activo afiliado rather than plain activo. Which means the affiliation field in your CV is not cosmetic — it determines how your productivity is attributed.
• There is an explicit maternity protection. Article 8.1.2 provides that pregnancy, maternity leave, or having one or more children under four years old are not grounds for moving a researcher to no activo for failing to meet the production requirement. Force majeure is also admissible, with supporting documentation, declared in the request.
• The six-month update is an entitlement, not a deadline. Article 11.1 lists updating your CTI Vitae profile every six months among the researcher’s atribuciones, not the obligaciones in Article 12. Nothing is automatically revoked at month seven. The binding maintenance rule is the three-year productivity test, and a record you can no longer prove is current is what actually costs you.

Investigador Distinguido is the exception to all of this: that classification is vitalicio and not subject to the activo condition, unless one of the Article 13 exclusion grounds applies.

Exclusion, and appealing a decision

Article 13 lists the grounds on which DEGC may exclude a researcher from RENACYT. The ones a compliant researcher should still know about:

• Providing false information or documents for qualification, maintenance or promotion.
• Breach of the Código Nacional de Integridad Científica, as sanctioned by the Comité de Integridad Científica.
• No scientific production for ten consecutive years from the date of registration — a much longer horizon than the three-year activo test, and a separate mechanism.
• Failing to reach the minimum score on a maintenance or promotion request, whether you filed it or CONCYTEC initiated it de oficio.
• Becoming ineligible for PROCIENCIA or CONCYTEC funding through non-performance on a contract or agreement.

Two appeal routes exist, each with a 15 business day filing window from notification and a 30 business day decision period: reconsideración, which must rest on new evidence not previously submitted, and apelación, which rests on a different interpretation of the evidence already produced or on a pure question of law.

The procedural trap: to file a reconsideración you must first upload the new evidence into CTI Vitae, in the section corresponding to the RENACYT indicators, and only then file the appeal. An appeal citing evidence that is not in the platform has nothing for the evaluator to reconsider. Appeals may be referred to a Comité Técnico of three external expert researchers drawn from the OECD knowledge areas in Anexo N° 2; a Resolución Directoral from DPP exhausts the administrative route.

What we could not verify, and where to check

In keeping with this site’s sourcing rules, three things are stated here as unresolved rather than guessed:

• Fees. Neither the RENACYT Reglamento nor CONCYTEC’s published FAQ states a fee for creating a CTI Vitae record or for submitting an Incorporación, Promoción or Mantenimiento Activo request. We have not found an authoritative statement that the procedure is free of charge either. CONCYTEC’s TUPA (Texto Único de Procedimientos Administrativos), published via its gob.pe institutional page, is the authoritative place to confirm the cost of any administrative procedure.
• The current version of the point table. The Reglamento published on CONCYTEC’s RENACYT service portal was approved by Resolución de Presidencia N° 090-2021-CONCYTEC-P and modified by Resolución de Presidencia N° 018-2022-CONCYTEC-P, superseding the 2018 Reglamento (RP N° 215-2018-CONCYTEC-P) and its 2019 manual. Confirm the current text at servicio-renacyt.concytec.gob.pe/normativas/reglamento before relying on any threshold above.
• The registration route for foreign researchers. As described earlier, the public form’s document-type selector is served with DNI only. Use CONCYTEC’s “Condición de investigador extranjero” page on the RENACYT service portal, or write to [email protected], rather than relying on a third-party account of a workaround.

Why this matters outside Peru

For research administrators, funders and collaborators outside Peru, CTI Vitae is the evidentiary layer under any RENACYT claim on a CV or a proposal. A stated RENACYT level is only as good as the CTI Vitae record it was scored from, and that record is self-reported under sworn declaration with post-hoc verification — a design worth understanding before treating a level as an independently audited credential.

It also has a practical consequence for co-authorship. Because RENACYT counts indexed articles by quartile and by document type, and because the platform will only ingest Scopus items through the Scopus Author ID, a Peruvian collaborator’s ability to evidence joint work depends on author-name disambiguation being clean in Scopus. Making sure a co-author’s persistent identifiers are consistent is not administrative housekeeping in this system; it is the difference between an article scoring and not scoring.

Frequently asked questions

What is CTI Vitae?

CTI Vitae is CONCYTEC’s virtual platform holding self-reported curricula vitae for people engaged in science, technology and innovation in Peru, and the sole channel for RENACYT qualification, promotion and maintenance requests. It is defined in Anexo N° 3 of the RENACYT Reglamento.

Is CTI Vitae the same as DINA?

Yes. DINA (Directorio Nacional de Investigadores) is the platform’s former name. CONCYTEC’s own application path, registration copy, user-manual URL and ORCID login parameters still carry the DINA label. There is no separate DINA system and nothing to migrate.

Is CTI Vitae the same as RENACYT?

No. CTI Vitae is the CV platform; RENACYT is the register of qualified and classified researchers that CONCYTEC maintains. Holding a CTI Vitae record confers no RENACYT status — you have to request qualification, and CONCYTEC scores the record you have built.

Can I import my publications into CTI Vitae from ORCID?

You can sign in with ORCID, but CONCYTEC’s RENACYT FAQ states that articles imported via ORCID are not considered for qualification. Scopus articles must be imported using your Scopus Author ID; Web of Science and SciELO articles must be entered manually.

What is the minimum score to enter RENACYT?

Ten points overall, which is the floor of Nivel VII, plus a mandatory minimum of six points in Producción Total (nine for undergraduate students) and at least one production item from the last three years. Missing the Producción Total minimum disqualifies you regardless of your total.

How long does a RENACYT request from CTI Vitae take?

Thirty business days from receipt in the platform, extendable by up to twenty additional business days — the “30 to 50 business days” range CONCYTEC quotes. The Constancia de Registro follows within five business days of the technical report.

When can I apply?

Any time. Ventanilla Abierta has been in effect since 28 February 2022 and keeps the process open throughout the year. There is no call window to wait for.

Do I need a doctorate to register in RENACYT?

No. Formación can score as low as one point on proof of current enrolment, and it can score zero without blocking qualification. What is mandatory is Producción Total: at least six points from indexed articles, granted IP, or peer-reviewed books, with at least one item in the last three years.

Does an ESCI-indexed article count?

No. Only the Web of Science Core Collection — Science Citation Index Expanded, Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index — is considered. Emerging Sources Citation Index is explicitly excluded.

Can a foreign researcher register?

The Reglamento (Article 3.3) makes foreign researchers eligible where they hold a documented commitment with a Peruvian entity to carry out CTI activity in Peru. The public self-registration form as served offers only DNI as a document type, so begin from CONCYTEC’s “Condición de investigador extranjero” route on the RENACYT service portal.

Primary sources

• CONCYTEC, Reglamento de Calificación, Clasificación y Registro de los Investigadores del SINACYT — servicio-renacyt.concytec.gob.pe/normativas/reglamento (approved by RP N° 090-2021-CONCYTEC-P, modified by RP N° 018-2022-CONCYTEC-P).
• CONCYTEC, Preguntas Frecuentes RENACYT — servicio-renacyt.concytec.gob.pe/normativas/preguntas-frecuentes.
• CONCYTEC, CTI Vitae platform — ctivitae.concytec.gob.pe/appDirectorioCTI.

Related CASRAI resources

• RENACYT: Peru’s National Registry of Researchers Explained — the register itself: eligibility, the eight levels, and how classification works.
• CONCYTEC (Peru): Funding Overview — how CONCYTEC’s policy role and PROCIENCIA’s calls relate to registry status.
• CNPq (Brazil): A Funding Overview for International Researchers — the Plataforma Lattes equivalent in the region.
• VIDWAN ID and Profile (INFLIBNET) — India’s national expert database, the same platform shape.
• CRIS & Persistent Identifiers — the cluster this guide belongs to.
• ORCID iD · Scopus Author ID · h-index · CRIS · Researcher Identifier.