ROR Data

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

Release v1.11 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 102,930 research organizations in JSON format. This release includes metadata updates in 1,507 existing records to set up crosswalks to Crossref Funder IDs as part of ongoing data reconciliation between the Crossref Funder Registry and ROR. No new records were added in this release. See the release notes.

Beginning with its March 2022 release, ROR is curated independently from GRID. Semantic versioning beginning with v1.0 was added to reflect this departure from GRID. The existing data structure was not changed.

From March 2022 onward, 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 include in the release file name, ex: v1.0-2022-03-15-ror-data.zip.