Industry-specific guidance · 15 sectors
Industry guidance
Research-administration standards differ in emphasis across industries — pharmaceutical R&D operates inside ICH GCP + FDA; biotech adds IP-preserving disclosure; academic medical centres weave clinical care with research. CASRAI vocabulary cuts across these conventions so the same dictionary serves every actor.
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Social sciences & humanities
Social sciences and humanities (SSH) research has distinctive scholarly conventions: monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, critical editions, and datasets are first-class outputs, citation patterns are slower and more book-centred, and bibliodiversity and multilingualism are core values. Narrative and qualitative assessment matter more than journal metrics. CASRAI vocabulary helps SSH communities describe these output types, contributions, and data consistently, complementing infrastructures such as OPERAS and DOAB.
Global SSH research community across universities and societies
Industry guidance →Research
Environmental & climate research
Environmental and climate research is data-intensive and highly collaborative: large shared datasets, long-running observational networks, satellite and sensor streams, and interdisciplinary teams are the norm. FAIR data practices and open-data mandates are widespread, and physical samples and instruments increasingly carry persistent identifiers such as IGSN. CASRAI vocabulary helps these communities describe data, samples, instruments, and contributions consistently across institutions and borders.
Global environmental and climate-science research community
Industry guidance →Research
Engineering & technology
Engineering and technology research has its own publishing culture: peer-reviewed conference proceedings (notably IEEE and ACM venues) carry substantial weight, and software, datasets, standards, and patents are important research outputs alongside articles. Industry collaboration and reproducibility of code are central concerns. CASRAI vocabulary helps these communities attribute software and dataset contributions, describe non-article outputs, and align with persistent-identifier practice.
Global engineering and applied-technology research community
Industry guidance →Life sciences
Pharmaceutical research
Pharmaceutical R&D — from target discovery through Phase IV — operates inside a dense web of research-administration standards: ICMJE authorship, CRediT for contributions, ICH GCP for trials, NSPM-33 + EU AI Act for AI use, and increasingly tight data-sharing mandates from FDA, EMA, and major funders. CASRAI vocabulary bridges the gap between investigator-initiated and sponsored research conventions.
~$1.6T global market (2024)
Industry guidance →Life sciences
Biotechnology
Biotech R&D — across cell + gene therapy, synthetic biology, computational biology, and platform technologies — increasingly relies on academic-industry collaborations, pre-competitive consortia, and data-deposit mandates from journals and funders. CASRAI standards help biotech firms publish responsibly, attribute contributions cleanly, and meet open-data requirements without compromising IP.
~$1.5T global market (2024)
Industry guidance →Life sciences
Medical device industry
Medical-device R&D — across diagnostics, therapeutics, implants, software-as-medical-device (SaMD), and AI-enabled devices — operates inside FDA 21 CFR, EU MDR / IVDR, and increasingly under FDA AI/ML Action Plan + EU AI Act. Investigator-initiated studies often produce peer-reviewed publications requiring CRediT, ICMJE, and ORCID compliance.
~$590B global market (2024)
Industry guidance →Life sciences
Contract Research Organisations
Contract Research Organisations sit between sponsors and investigators on most clinical trials — running operations, biostatistics, medical writing, data management, and regulatory submissions. Increasingly the CRO contribution to peer-reviewed publications must be attributed properly under CRediT and ICMJE; medical-writer disclosure (via EMWA / ISMPP / GPP3) is a regulatory expectation.
~$80B global CRO market (2024)
Industry guidance →Higher education · health
Academic Medical Centres
Academic Medical Centres (AMCs) integrate clinical care, education, and research — a uniquely complex research-administration environment. AMC researchers navigate NIH funding, IRB review, ACGME-aligned trainee attribution, clinical-trial registration, and CRediT-aware publication conventions all at once. CASRAI standards provide the shared vocabulary to thread these together.
AAMC: 158 US AMCs + 800+ teaching hospitals
Industry guidance →Government · National labs
Government research laboratories
Government research laboratories — US Department of Energy national labs, NASA centres, UK Catapults, EU Joint Research Centre, Australia's CSIRO, Germany's Helmholtz / Fraunhofer / Max Planck — produce a substantial fraction of national scientific output. Distinct from university research, they operate under additional mandates around classified work, export control, dual-use, and inter-agency reporting.
US: 17 DOE national labs; UK: ~10 Catapults; EU: JRC
Industry guidance →Non-profit research
Independent research institutes
Independent research institutes — Wellcome Sanger, Broad Institute, Crick, Karolinska, RIKEN, Allen Institute, Salk, Stowers, Whitehead, and hundreds of smaller institutes worldwide — operate as research-only organisations outside the university and government-lab structures. They are heavy CRediT adopters and often pioneer open-data practices.
Global: thousands of independent research institutes
Industry guidance →Information · publishing
Scholarly publishing
The scholarly-publishing industry — commercial publishers, university presses, society publishers, and platform providers — is where contributor taxonomies, persistent identifiers, and structured-metadata standards are actually operationalised. Publishers capture CRediT roles at submission, encode them in JATS XML, deposit metadata to Crossref, and connect authors via ORCID and institutions via ROR. CASRAI provides the shared vocabulary that keeps these workflows interoperable across the supply chain.
Tens of thousands of active scholarly journals worldwide
Industry guidance →Higher education
Higher education
Universities sit at the centre of the research-information ecosystem: they run current research information systems (CRIS / RIM), report to national assessment frameworks, maintain institutional repositories, and manage researcher profiles connected via ORCID and ROR. As research assessment shifts towards narrative CVs and responsible-metrics principles (DORA, CoARA), universities need shared, vendor-neutral vocabulary to keep contributions, outputs, and funding interoperable across systems and reporting lines.
Thousands of research-active universities worldwide
Industry guidance →Non-profit · scholarly
Learned societies
Learned societies serve their disciplines as community conveners, standards-setters, and — very often — journal publishers. As society publishers, they adopt CRediT, JATS, ORCID, and Crossref deposit on the same terms as commercial publishers, but typically with smaller editorial teams and tighter budgets. As community bodies, they shape disciplinary norms around authorship, recognition, and open access. CASRAI offers society publishers a practical, vendor-neutral route into contributor and identifier standards.
Thousands of scholarly and professional societies worldwide
Industry guidance →Funding · public & philanthropic
Research funders
Research funders — national agencies, charitable trusts, and philanthropic foundations — increasingly require persistent identifiers and structured data throughout the grant lifecycle: ORCID iDs on applications, ROR for affiliations, Crossref Grant IDs for awards, and narrative-CV formats for assessment. Many are signatories to DORA and CoALition S (Plan S). CASRAI provides the shared vocabulary that connects funder reporting to the contribution and output records produced downstream by their grantees.
National agencies, charities, and foundations worldwide
Industry guidance →Agriculture · food security
Agricultural research
Agricultural and food-security research — across CGIAR centres, national agricultural institutes, and university faculties — generates large volumes of field, crop, genebank, and germplasm data that must be findable and reusable to support global food security. The sector relies on FAIR data principles, AGROVOC for controlled vocabulary, DataCite DOIs for datasets, and increasingly on contributor and project identifiers. CASRAI offers the shared vocabulary that connects these data records to the people and projects that produce them.
CGIAR centres, national institutes, and universities worldwide
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