The Research Organization Registry (ROR) includes IDs and metadata for more than 116,000 organizations and counting. Registry data is CC0 and openly available via a search interface, REST API, and data dump. Registry updates are curated through a community process and released at least once a month.
MoreROR is community-supported open infrastructure driven by organizations and individuals from around the world. Join the community to get involved in advisory groups, give feedback on future directions, and integrate ROR in your systems.
MoreCalifornia Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite launched ROR in 2019 following extensive community collaborations to develop an open registry of research organization identifiers. ROR is the only organization identifier that is completely open, operated as a community initiative, and widely supported in core scholarly infrastructure.
MoreHave you ever wondered exactly what happens once you request a new ROR record or suggest a change to an existing ROR record? In this blog post, we take you through all the steps involved in ROR's open, community-driven process for making sure that the information in the ROR registry is complete and accurate.
By Riley Marsh
October 8, 2025
We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the ROR pride: Joseph Rhoads joined the ROR team in September as our new Technical Lead.
By Maria Gould
October 2, 2025
In this interview with HighWire Press's Tony Alves, we learn that thanks to customer requests and a PID-aware development process, the publishing platform DigiCore Pro uses ROR in form lookups and automatic extraction processes for author affiliations, funder identification, peer reviewer affiliations, user disambiguation, and research integrity.
By Amanda French
September 9, 2025