A global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations
ROR includes IDs and metadata for thousands of research and funding organizations from around the world. 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.
MoreWhen you're requesting a new ROR ID for an organization, here are the three most important things to do before you fill out the request form: 1) Search the registry to see whether the organization already has a ROR ID, 2) Make sure the organization is in scope for ROR, and 3) Collect links to research outputs that acknowledge the organization as an author affiliation, funder, or publisher.
By Amanda French and Riley Marsh
June 24, 2026
Collin Knopp-Schwyn of Crossref shares how they began contributing to the ROR dataset and discusses the value of ROR users providing curation requests to the registry.
By Collin Knopp-Schwyn
May 28, 2026
With 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
March 27, 2026