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ROR

ROR (Research Organization Registry) is a global, community-led, curated registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. It provides unique, stable identifiers (ROR IDs) for over 120,000 universities, companies, government labs, nonprofits, and other organizations involved in scholarly research. The registry is maintained collaboratively by California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite, with all data available under the CC0 license. ROR offers a free REST API for querying, searching, and retrieving organization records, and is integrated as the preferred organization identifier across Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID platforms.

ROR publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: REST API. Tagged areas include Research, Organizations, Identifiers, Registry, and Scholarly.

The ROR catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

ROR’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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33.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreeOpen⚡ Free to try
1 APIs
ResearchOrganizationsIdentifiersRegistryScholarlyOpen DataPersistent Identifiers

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 33.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.9 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ROR REST API

The ROR REST API provides programmatic access to the Research Organization Registry, enabling users to retrieve, search, filter, and match organization records by name, identifi...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ror Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ror Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Ror Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Ror Context

8 classes · 19 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Ror Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext
JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage
StatusPage
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Blog
Blog
 BlogFeed
BlogFeed

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ror
name: ROR
description: ROR (Research Organization Registry) is a global, community-led, curated registry of open persistent identifiers
  for research organizations. It provides unique, stable identifiers (ROR IDs) for over 120,000 universities, companies, government
  labs, nonprofits, and other organizations involved in scholarly research. The registry is maintained collaboratively by
  California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite, with all data available under the CC0 license. ROR offers a free REST
  API for querying, searching, and retrieving organization records, and is integrated as the preferred organization identifier
  across Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID platforms.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/ror.png
tags:
- Research
- Organizations
- Identifiers
- Registry
- Scholarly
- Open Data
- Persistent Identifiers
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ror/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: ror-rest-api
  name: ROR REST API
  description: The ROR REST API provides programmatic access to the Research Organization Registry, enabling users to retrieve,
    search, filter, and match organization records by name, identifier, affiliation text, or metadata fields. Returns JSON
    responses with full record details including names, locations, external IDs, and organizational relationships.
  humanURL: https://ror.readme.io/docs/rest-api
  baseURL: https://api.ror.org
  tags:
  - Research Organizations
  - Identifiers
  - Registry
  - Search
  - Affiliation Matching
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ror.readme.io/docs/rest-api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://ror.readme.io/llms.txt
  - type: Versioning
    url: https://ror.readme.io/docs/basics
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ror-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ror.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ror.readme.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ror-community
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ror-research-organization-registry
- type: Blog
  url: https://ror.org/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://ror.org/api-client-id
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://ror1.statuspage.io/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/ResearchOrgs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ror-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ror-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ror-finops.yml
- type: BlogFeed
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/ror-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com