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-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/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