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.
The ROR Community turned out in force for our 2024 annual community meeting. Here are the highlights from ROR's fifth anniversary celebration, a community showcase of ROR users, and a panel on the importance of funding metadata.
Professor Cameron Neylon of Curtin University talks telephones, power outlets, chat services, persistent identifier education, federated versus centralized curation, providing actionable information to universities, and why the COKI Open Access Dashboard relies on ROR.
Adam Day, CEO of Clear Skies Ltd., discusses how he works to improve research integrity with tools like Papermill Alarm, why such tools can assist but can't replace human investigators, and what's so important for data scientists about free and open identifers like ROR
After nearly a year of planning and community input, we are thrilled to release a beta version of ROR's first major schema and API update, which is open to the public for testing through October 16, 2023.
Justin Barrett, Lead Machine Learning Engineer for OpenAlex at OurResearch, talks with ROR Technical Community Manager Amanda French and ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick about using ROR in OpenAlex both as an identifier for institutions and as a dataset for training machine learning models.
Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and Crossref DOIs and explains why they live streamed all eight hours of the work.
As we have crossed the mid-point of 2023, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what has already been a very busy year for ROR!
Michael Parkin, data scientist at EMBL-EBI who helps maintain Europe PMC, explains why and how ROR helps with assessing funding impact and tracking researcher collaborations.
In January of 2022, DataSalon announced a full integration of ROR into its scholarly publishing analytics products MasterVision and PaperStack. DataSalon's Client Services Director Andy Dobson sat down with us to tell us all about how they draw on fifteen years of data experience to match organizational affiliations in publisher data to ROR IDs.