Beginning the week of December 8, 2025, version 1 of the ROR API and schema will no longer be available.

Research Organization Registry (ROR)

A global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations

Use the registry

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.

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Join the community

ROR 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.

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Learn more about ROR

After extensive collaborative planning with the scholarly infrastructure community, California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite launched ROR in 2019. ROR is the only organization identifier that is completely open, operated as a community initiative, and widely supported in core research systems.

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News and Updates

Announcing a New Affiliation Matching Strategy in the ROR API

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.

By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick

December 2, 2025

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Cambridge University Press and ROR

John Lewis, Data Operations Manager at Cambridge University Press, tells us why and how Cambridge uses ROR in this latest installment of our short case study series.

By John Lewis and Amanda French

October 22, 2025

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Journey of a Curation Request: What Happens When You Ask for an Update to ROR

Have 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

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