Improving How Funding Connects to Research Outputs
Starting today, funder names deposited in Crossref metadata without an identifier will be matched to ROR IDs, to support an open and connected Research Nexus.
By Martyn Rittman, Rocio Gaudioso Pedraza, Carlos del Ojo Elias, Jason Portenoy and Dominika Tkaczyk
September 15, 2026
Starting today, funder names deposited in Crossref metadata without an identifier will be matched to ROR IDs, to support an open and connected Research Nexus.
By Melissa Harrison
March 23, 2026
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.
By Hans de Jonge
February 11, 2026
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.
By Amanda French
May 1, 2025
In this dual case study, we learn why the Howard Hughes Medical Institute relies on OA.Report and why OA.Report relies on ROR to help HHMI track compliance with its open access policy.
By Patricia Feeney
March 5, 2025
Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.
By Amanda French
August 6, 2024
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.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
June 27, 2024
The second blog post about metadata matching by ROR's Adam Buttrick and Crossref's Dominika Tkaczyk describes some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process, then poses some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
May 16, 2024
In this blog, the first one in a series about metadata matching, we will cover the very basics of matching: what it is, how we do it, and why we devote so much effort to this problem.
By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick
October 12, 2023
ROR is ready to take on the important work that the Open Funder Registry has been doing: identifying research funders in a clean, consistent, comprehensive, and interoperable way. This post compares both registries and provides data showing that most of the Open Funder Registry records that see the most use already have equivalent records in ROR.
By Amanda French, Ginny Hendricks, Rachael Lammey, Fabienne Michaud and Maria Gould
September 7, 2023
Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned. ROR and Crossref are working closely together on this important initiative.