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:
Total213,012
Entity types:
Organizations144,717
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
Tags:sector.academic
Coverage:added · frequency: monthly
Last processed:
2026-10-10 21:57:06 · v. 20261010215706-evo · change statistics...
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 entities98.59 MB
names.txtTarget names text file9.4 MB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format97.24 MB
source.zipSource data36.75 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON0 B
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV175 B

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