Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and Crossref DOIs and explains why they live streamed all eight hours of the work. Key quotations “Integrating ROR just makes it very easy to match all these authors to the same institution.

As we have crossed the mid-point of 2023, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what has already been a very busy year for ROR! ROR usage continues to skyrocket, with the ROR API seeing more than 23 million requests every month. ROR integrations are continuing to grow, and we’re showcasing specific implementations in a new case study series on the ROR blog.

Michael Parkin, data scientist at EMBL-EBI who helps maintain Europe PMC, explains why and how ROR helps with assessing funding impact and tracking researcher collaborations. Key quotations “As I mentioned, we can disseminate these ROR IDs, because we’ve added them to our own API. When you look at a grant record programmatically, you’ll see the ROR ID as part of that API response.

In January of 2022, DataSalon announced a full integration of ROR into its scholarly publishing analytics products MasterVision and PaperStack. DataSalon’s Client Services Director Andy Dobson sat down with us to tell us all about how they draw on fifteen years of data experience to match organizational affiliations in publisher data to ROR IDs.

Persistent identifiers are playing a key role in driving more robust research infrastructure and open science initiatives across Latin America.

Scholastica has incorporated ROR IDs into its Peer Review System, Production Service, and Open Access Publishing Platform. In this interview with Cory Schires, Scholastica co-founder and CTO, we discuss the two phases of ROR implementation, the pros and cons of displaying ROR IDs, what makes sense about ROR's level of granularity, and the importance of reliable APIs.

Europe PMC, one of the largest providers of high-performance search tools for life sciences literature, has announced that its Grant Finder now incorporates Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs to help users find active and completed grants awarded by Europe PMC funders. Europe PMC provides comprehensive access to life sciences literature from trusted sources. It’s available to anyone, anywhere for free.

Rockefeller University Press has incorporated ROR into many aspects of their workflow, and their platform provider Silverchair was there to help. This case study is based on the presentation about this integration given at the December 2022 ROR Community Call by Rob O’Donnell, Senior Director of Publishing at RUP, and Emily Hazzard, Product Operations Analyst at Silverchair.

ROR supports parent-child organizational hierarchies as well as other types of relationships between organizations. This blog post explains how organizational hierarchies and relationships are expressed in ROR metadata, offers statistics on hierarchies and relationships in ROR, summarizes ROR's curation practices for hierarchies and relationships, and gives examples of real-life use cases of ROR hierarchies and relationships.

In this case study we interview Tom Morrell, Research Data Specialist at Caltech Library and key contributor to the open source research data management system InvenioRDM, about Caltech’s early adoption of ROR IDs in their repository systems and why InvenioRDM is architected with ROR IDs for funders and author affiliations.

Four years ago, ROR was first introduced to the world at an open community meeting the day before PIDapalooza. Since then, we have continued to celebrate ROR’s anniversary every year with a big public event to bring together the broad network of ROR users and supporters and reinforce ROR’s commitment to developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure.