ROR

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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: 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