A global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations
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.
MoreAfter 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.
MoreWith the release of v2 of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI), we take this opportunity to reflect on ROR’s alignment with the POSI framework and re-assert our commitment to providing open scholarly infrastructure for the global community.
By Maria Gould
February 27, 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 Hans de Jonge
February 11, 2026
In 2025, ROR deprecated a schema version, launched a new affiliation matching strategy, worked with national and international groups on community metadata curation, supported new users of and use cases for ROR, devoted our time to key research information initiatives, and did much, much more.
By ROR Core Team
December 16, 2025