Identity & Authority: Reactome – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Reactome

(https://reactome.org) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 25, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
13 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
87% Reputation

Authority is established through institutional association with EMBL-EBI, NYU Langone, and OHSU. While individual Person schema is missing for every researcher, the presence of specific grant numbers and CoreTrustSeal Certification provides a level of verification that far exceeds standard commercial expert claims.

There is no disconnect because the site makes technical capability claims rather than commercial performance claims. Every functional claim (e.g., mapping to UniProt IDs, Benjamini-Hochberg correction) is backed by documentation explaining exactly how the software performs the task.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
[
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "url": "https://reactome.org/",
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://reactome.org/content/query?q={term}",
            "query-input": "required name=term"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "url": "https://reactome.org",
        "logo": "https://reactome.org/templates/favourite/images/logo/logo.png",
        "email": "help@reactome.org"
    }
]
/PathwayBrowser/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/userguide/analysis/
[
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "url": "https://reactome.org/",
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://reactome.org/content/query?q={term}",
            "query-input": "required name=term"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "url": "https://reactome.org",
        "logo": "https://reactome.org/templates/favourite/images/logo/logo.png",
        "email": "help@reactome.org"
    }
]
/documentation/
[
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "url": "https://reactome.org/",
        "potentialAction": {
            "@type": "SearchAction",
            "target": "https://reactome.org/content/query?q={term}",
            "query-input": "required name=term"
        }
    },
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "Organization",
        "url": "https://reactome.org",
        "logo": "https://reactome.org/templates/favourite/images/logo/logo.png",
        "email": "help@reactome.org"
    }
]
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
18Review mentions (all pages)
3External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 8 1
/PathwayBrowser/ 0 0
/userguide/analysis/ 4 1
/documentation/ 6 1