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CRediT, JATS, and identifier standards for scholarly publishers

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

What this sector cares about

Key research-administration concerns

Capturing CRediT contributor roles in submission and peer-review systems
Encoding contributorship and funding metadata in JATS XML for production
Depositing complete metadata to Crossref (ORCID iDs, ROR affiliations, grant IDs)
ORCID auto-population and validated author identity at submission
Open-access workflow, licensing, and transparent peer-review disclosure
AI-use disclosure policies for authors, reviewers, and editorial processes

The scholarly-publishing industry is the principal adopter of contributor and identifier standards, with bodies such as the NISO CRediT standing committee maintaining the very vocabularies CASRAI helps editors and production teams implement.

Standards in play