ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. 🦁 Run by @crossref.bsky.social, @datacite.org, & @caldiglib.bsky.social.
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See also https://linktr.ee/researchorgs
Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁
Did you know that you can get the latest version of the ROR registry from Zenodo? You can get 88 earlier versions as well! Our documentation includes instructions for retrieving the ROR dataset from Zenodo programmatically. ror.readme.io/docs/zenodo
[auto] New on the ROR blog: "Why I Request ROR IDs for New Crossref Members"
This week, ROR representatives are at the #FORCE2026 conference in Singapore discussing how ROR can help ensure research integrity. Find us at the 9am Friday session! force11.org/force2026/
Favorite ROR IDs of the week: Sand Team (Czechia) ror.org/00kswsq18, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve ror.org/037zfpn66, and Institute of Sand Control, Shaanxi Academy of Forestry ror.org/011g48w32
In this great piece, @timoreilly.bsky.social points out that "Systems like arXiv, DOIs, CrossRef, Datacite, ORCID, OpenAlex, ROR, Retraction Watch, and PubMed form a kind of collaborative exoskeleton for scientific publishing" that AI companies can use. asimovaddendum.substack.com/p/the-collab...
Today, @BarcelonaDORI.sky.social has issued a call to action to improve the quality of funding #metadata that highlights the crucial role of ROR IDs in this endeavor. barcelona-declaration.org/news/2026052...
The ROR API now uses a new and improved matching strategy as the default on the affiliation parameter. This is a non-breaking change designed to make automatically matching text strings to ROR IDs both better and faster. ror.readme.io/changelog/20...
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 doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Read what's new in release v2.8. github.com/ror-communit...
"ROR’s community-led curation model allows for gnomelike contributions like mine as well as for systematic contributions from funding agencies, governments, and other interested parties worldwide," writes @Crossref.bsky.social Member Support Specialist Collin Knopp-Schwyn. doi.org/10.71938/0ep...
Not to worry if you missed Tuesday's ROR Community Call, where we heard about @crossref.bsky.social's plan to implement automatic matching of funder names to ROR IDs and the Flemish Organization Registry. The slides and recording are now available! ror.org/events/2026-...
All releases / versions of the ROR Data dump are hosted on Zenodo and can be downloaded programmatically using the Zenodo REST API. You can retrieve the most recent data release or any previous…
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.
Starting May 26th, the ?affiliation parameter of the ROR API uses the new "single search" strategy by default. This is not a breaking change, and the legacy "multisearch" strategy can still be used…
The Working Group on Funding Metadata of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information is pleased to share ‘Improving the Quality of Open Funding Metadata: A Call to Action’. The Call to…
There is a lot of hope that AI will advance the progress of science, but unfortunately, the collision between AI and scientific publishing has not gone well.
Data dump from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led registry of open identifiers for research organizations. Release v2.8 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 127,138 research…
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.
