Version 1 of the ROR API and schema has been deprecated.

Research Organization Registry (ROR)

A global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations

Use the registry

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) includes IDs and metadata for more than 116,000 organizations and counting. Registry data is CC0 and openly available via a search interface, REST API, and data dump. Registry updates are curated through a community process and released at least once a month.

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Join the community

ROR is community-supported open infrastructure driven by organizations and individuals from around the world. Join the community to get involved in advisory groups, give feedback on future directions, and integrate ROR in your systems.

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Learn more about ROR

After extensive collaborative planning with the scholarly infrastructure community, California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite launched ROR in 2019. ROR is the only organization identifier that is completely open, operated as a community initiative, and widely supported in core research systems.

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News and Updates

ROR in 2025: Year in Review

In 2025, ROR deprecated a schema version, launched a new affiliation matching strategy, worked with national and international groups on community metadata curation, supported new users of and use cases for ROR, devoted our time to key research information initiatives, and did much, much more.

By ROR Core Team

December 16, 2025

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How ROR IDs Help the EarthScope Consortium Track Organizational Partnerships

Learn how ROR IDs can help track organizational partnerships in this deep dive into work that Metadata Game Changers did with the EarthScope Consortium to add identifiers to DataCite DOI metadata for geophysical datasets.

By Ted Habermann and Jim Riley

December 12, 2025

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Announcing a New Affiliation Matching Strategy in the ROR API

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new matching strategy in the ROR API to help you match complex affiliation text strings to ROR IDs at scale.

By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick

December 2, 2025

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