Web of Science Core Collection™ from Clarivate™ now includes Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers for the benefit of the global research community.

In 2024, ROR processed over 8000 curation requests, handled 14 million monthly requests to the ROR API, saw the number of downloads of the ROR dataset triple, and was a finalist for the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award: read on for more highlights from a banner year.

This blog post explores the difference between “core facilities” in RRID and “facilities” in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers. What is RRID and what is its scope? RRIDs (Research Resource Identifiers) help identify a wide variety of resources which are inputs to experiments , especially biomedical experiments.

In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.

The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching. In our previous blog post in this series, we explained why no metadata matching strategy can return perfect results.

We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Riley Marsh joined the ROR team in August as our new Metadata Manager. As Metadata Manager, Riley will support the day-to-day activities of curating the ROR registry, including triaging incoming requests and processing changes for new registry releases.

We’re looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for managing ROR API client identification with ‘mailto’ parameters or API keys, and comments are open through October 4th, 2024 . Which option would you prefer? Does either option present a significant barrier for your use of the ROR API? Let us know! Since ROR’s launch in 2019, the ROR API has been provided at no cost and with no registration or credentials required.

In this post, we discuss a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders.

Optica Publishing Group was one of the earliest publishers to send ROR IDs to Crossref in DOI metadata. In this interview, we speak with them to learn more about their rigorous processes for cleaning organization names.

Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funding organizations. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs as funder identifiers. If you’re reading this post, you probably know that for the last ten years, the Crossref Open Funder Registry (formerly FundRef) has been the default identifier for funding organizations.

Crossref, with the help of CWTS Leiden, has just released an exciting update to their participation reports, adding metrics for both affiliations in general and ROR IDs in particular. Now Crossref members can easily see how well they’re doing in providing open affiliation metadata. Read the full text of the Crossref announcement below.