Identifier
ROR
Community-led, open registry of persistent identifiers for research and funding organisations.
How it connects
What it is
- ROR is a kind of Persistent identifier.
Who is behind it
- ROR funded by SCOSS.
- ROR operated by California Digital Library. Founding operating partner.
- ROR operated by Crossref. Founding operating partner; its accounting team manages ROR's finances.
- ROR operated by DataCite. One of three founding operating partners, along with Crossref and California Digital Library.
Builds on
- DataCite Metadata Schema depends on ROR. ROR is a documented supported affiliationIdentifierScheme value for creator and contributor affiliations.
- OSF depends on ROR. OSF sends ROR identifiers for institutional affiliation together with ORCID iDs when minting DOI metadata.
Related to
- ROR relates to Metadata. Each ROR record is a structured metadata record about an organisation, and ROR IDs identify affiliations in the metadata of other records.
Links
Details
Also known as: Research Organization Registry
Description
ROR is an open registry: its data is published under CC0 and can be accessed through a search interface, a REST API and a data dump. It is operated by California Digital Library, Crossref and DataCite.
Attributes
| url | https://ror.org |
|---|---|
| identifiers | wikidata: Q110235640 |
| status | active |
| governance | Nonprofit |
| prominence | core |
| type | Identifier |
| identifies | organization |
| Tags | function: identification, region: global |
Sources
- https://ror.org/about/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-09-04)
- https://ror.org/about/faqs/(opens in a new tab) (accessed 2026-11-12): ROR is completely open (CC0 data, open API) and noncommercial; operated by California Digital Library, Crossref and DataCite.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-12
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