Research Organizations Registry

Identifiers for research organizations, maintained by the Research Organization Registry.

ROR is a registry of “research organizations.” We define “research organization” as any organization that conducts, produces, manages, or touches research.

Data overview

Entities:
Total188,853
Entity types:
Organizations127,138
Countries:
232 countries · Show overview...
Publisher:Research Organization Registry (ROR)

ROR is a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.

Information:ror.org
Source data:doi.org · ZIP
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:2026-06-10 21:57:02 · v. 20260610215702-cas
Last change:

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Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities73.37 MB
names.txtTarget names text file0 B
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format74.57 MB
source.zipSource data31.54 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON0 B
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV175 B

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