ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations

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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

California 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.

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News and Updates

Symplectic Adds ROR Integration

Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.

By Symplectic

July 18, 2025

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Timeline for the Sunset of Version 1 of the ROR API and Schema

Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.

By Amanda French

June 11, 2025

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ROR in the US Department of Transportation's Research Repository

Peyton Tvrdy of the US National Transportation Library tells us why and how her team did such exemplary work in producing metadata for Rosa P, a national digital repository for open transportation research.

By Peyton Tvrdy and Amanda French

May 8, 2025

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