ROR Data

Data dump from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led registry of open identifiers for research organizations.

Release v2.2 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 121,920 research organizations in JSON and CSV format, in schema version 2. This includes the addition of 1,054 new records and metadata updates to 1,128 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.