When you're requesting a new ROR ID for an organization, here are the three most important things to do before you fill out the request form: 1) Search the registry to see whether the organization already has a ROR ID, 2) Make sure the organization is in scope for ROR, and 3) Collect links to research outputs that acknowledge the organization as an author affiliation, funder, or publisher.
Collin Knopp-Schwyn of Crossref shares how they began contributing to the ROR dataset and discusses the value of ROR users providing curation requests to the registry.
With the release of v2 of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), we take this opportunity to reflect on ROR’s alignment with the POSI framework and re-assert our commitment to providing open scholarly infrastructure for the global community.
Europe PMC has long been at the forefront of ROR adoption. In their latest ROR-related project, they've used ROR in publication metadata to help their partner SciLifeLab, a major research facility and funder, make almost 17,000 linked research publications discoverable on Europe PMC. Read on to learn more about this important open metadata initiative.
Joe Muller of the Open Library of Humanities tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform took the time to integrate ROR in a way that reduces the burden of data entry for authors, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution with a ROR-powered search.
In the ROR Annual Community Meeting in February, we celebrated seven years of ROR and the ROR community that makes it all possible in three terrific sessions. If you missed any of the sessions, here are the highlights.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced recently that it has integrated ROR in its open API. Hans de Jonge, director of Open Science, tells us why and how NWO uses ROR in this latest installment of our case study series.
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.
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.
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.