Adoption News
Clarivate Integrates ROR
Web of Science Core Collection™ from Clarivate™ now includes Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers for the benefit of the global research community.
Year in Review
ROR in 2024: Year in Review
In 2024, ROR processed over 8000 curation requests, handled 14 million monthly requests to the ROR API, saw the number of downloads of the ROR dataset triple, and was a finalist for the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award: read on for more highlights from a banner year.
Explainers
Understanding RRID and ROR for Facilities
This blog post explores the difference between 'core facilities' in RRID and 'facilities' in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers.
Case Studies
Case Study: Next-Generation Publishing Platform Curvenote and ROR
In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.
Explainers
How Good Is Your Matching?
The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics.
Team Updates
Welcome Riley Marsh, Metadata Manager
We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Riley Marsh joined the ROR team in August as our new Metadata Manager.
Requests
How Should ROR Handle API Client Identification?
We're looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for managing ROR API client identification with 'mailto' parameters or API keys, and comments are open through October 4th, 2024.
Explainers
The Myth of Perfect Metadata Matching
In this post, we discuss a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders.
Case Studies
Case Study: How and Why Optica Publishing Group Uses ROR
Optica Publishing Group was one of the earliest publishers to send ROR IDs to Crossref in DOI metadata. In this interview, we speak with them to learn more about their rigorous processes for cleaning organization names.
Use Cases
Using ROR for Funder Identification
Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funders. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs for funder identifiers.
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