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Parents, Children, and Other Relationships in ROR Records
One common question we receive about ROR registry records is whether they reflect organizational hierarchy and relationships between organizations – yes, they do!
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What's in a name? Handling name metadata in ROR
The ROR registry includes unique IDs and associated metadata records for 100,000+ research organizations. Each one of these organizations has at least one name.
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What Does it Mean to Be in ROR?
Some of the most frequent questions ROR receives are about what it means when an organization is in ROR, and how organizations end up in the registry in the first place.
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What (and Who) Is the ROR Community?
The Research Organization Registry is a cross-organizational and multi-stakeholder initiative. ROR is run by a small group of steering organizations in collaboration with a broad network of community advisors and supporters.
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Untangling Affiliation Strings with the ROR API
ROR launched in January 2019 with records for nearly 100,000 research organizations, all with unique IDs and associated metadata. ROR data is useful for a variety of reasons and for a variety of users, including both humans and machines.
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