Research Organization Registry

@ResearchOrgs
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ROR, the Research Organization Registry, is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations 🦁 Brought to you by the California Digital Library, @crossref, and @datacite

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Websitehttps://ror.org
Email[email protected]
Documentationhttps://ror.readme.io
GitHubhttps://github.com/ror-community
Favorite ROR IDs of the week: Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society (FAIS) https://ror.org/02fvcqy63, Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial Aplicada (2AI) in Portugal https://ror.org/013x8r926, and Center for Artificial Intelligence Research Nepal https://ror.org/01r47w237
At the May 19th ROR Community Call, we'll hear about the ROR-based Flemish Organization Registry and about @[email protected]'s plan to implement automatic matching of funder names to ROR IDs. Join us! https://ror.org/events/#ror-community-call-may-2026
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RAiD uses ROR as the source of truth for organisation information. These regular updates from the ROR team directly benefit RAiD users as well.

A new version of the ROR registry has been released! 🎉 As always, new and modified records are immediately available in the ROR API, and the latest data can be downloaded from Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6347574. Read what's new in release v2.7. https://github.com/ror-community/ror-updates/releases/tag/v2.7
ROR Data

Data dump from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led registry of open identifiers for research organizations. Release v2.7 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 125,848 research organizations in JSON and CSV format, in schema version 2. This includes the addition of 783 new records and metadata updates to 271 existing records. See the release notes. Data format Beginning with release v2.0 on 16 December 2025, data releases contain JSON and CSV files formatted only for schema v2. In addition, v2 files will no longer have `_schema_v2` appended to the end of the filename, ex v2.0-2025-12-16-ror-data.json.  The CSV file contains a subset of fields from the JSON file, some of which have been flattened for easier parsing. As ROR records and the ROR schema are maintained in JSON, the CSV is for convenience only. JSON is the format of record. Release versioning Beginning with data release 2.0, files in the ROR Data dump on Zenodo will no longer include CSV and JSON files of the registry in the v1 schema. The ROR API default version is v2 as of July 2025, and v1 of the ROR API and dataset has been deprecated entirely, as of 8 December 2025. The data dump major version has been incremented to 2 per below. Data releases are versioned as follows: Minor versions (ex 1.1, 1.2, 1.3):  Contain changes to data, such as a new records and updates to existing records. No changes to the data model/structure. Patch versions (ex 1.0.1):  Used infrequently to correct errors in a release. No changes to the data model/structure. Major versions (ex 1.x, 2.x, 3.x):  Contains changes to data model/structure, as well as the data itself. Major versions will be released with significant advance notice. For convenience, the date is also included in the release file name, ex: v2.0-2025-12-16-ror-data.zip. The ROR data dump is provided under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication. Location data in ROR comes from GeoNames and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

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Favorite ROR IDs of the week: Sociedad Entomológica Argentina https://ror.org/01b25hg46, Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory https://ror.org/02x2kaq51, and Vietnam's National Institute of Malariology, Parasitology and Entomology https://ror.org/052q3cn21
News from COS: "The OSF has transitioned to the use of Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs for identifying funders ... its adoption on the OSF means researchers will be able to link their work to a much broader range of funding organizations than was previously possible." https://www.cos.io/blog/enhancing-discoverability-recent-updates-to-the-osf
Enhancing Discoverability: Recent Updates to the OSF

Recent updates to the Open Science Framework (OSF) are designed to improve discoverability, enabling research outputs to be consistently interpreted and connected across tools and platforms.

Thanks to a collaboration between COMET and @datacite, more than 26 million new connections between creators/contributors and ROR IDs are now available in a new enrichments API endpoint. Read more and take the #metadata enrichments survey! https://github.com/datacite/datacite-suggestions/discussions/236
"Affiliation metadata, which captures the institution or organisation employing the
contributors of the work, plays a pivotal role in maintaining and enhancing research integrity by ensuring a clear and traceable link between the research and the institution." https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19695956
Exciting news! @crossref will soon be linking funder names to ROR IDs in DOI #metadata through a rigorously tested automatic matching strategy. This is a major step toward making ROR the primary identifier for funders in Crossref. https://doi.org/10.64000/d3f5t-g5017
Matching funders in scholarly metadata: linking names to ROR IDs - Crossref

In April 2025, we launched the metadata matching project, in order to add missing relationships to the scholarly metadata. We will do this by consolidating all existing and planned matching workflows, which enrich member-deposited metadata in Crossref. This unified service will result in a more complete research nexus. In this blog post, we share our latest milestone: developing and evaluating a strategy for matching funder metadata to Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers.

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