Adoption News

ROR Now Available in Editorial Manager

Aries Systems has announced that its widely-used peer review and production tracking systems Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® (PM) now support ROR IDs as funder identifiers.

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Case Studies

From User Stories to High-Quality Data: Implementing ROR on the Janeway Platform

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.

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Symplectic Adds ROR Integration

Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.

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Using ROR IDs in Place of Funder IDs

Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.

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Explainers

Metadata Matching: Beyond Correctness

The fifth and final blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk outlines a set of pragmatic criteria for making decisions about metadata matching.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Re-introducing Participation Reports to Encourage Best Practices in Open Metadata

Crossref, with the help of CWTS Leiden, has just released an exciting update to their participation report, adding metrics for both affiliations in general and ROR IDs in particular. Now Crossref members can easily see how well they are doing in providing open affiliation metadata.

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American Physical Society Becomes Largest Society Publisher to Adopt ROR

The American Physical Society (APS) has become the largest society publisher to adopt Research Organization Registry Identifiers. Institutional metadata in the Physical Review journals are now easier to find, track, and reference — a move that strengthens open science and research transparency.

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