Integration · ROR Community (Crossref, DataCite, ISNI, Digital Science)
ROR (Research Organisation Registry)
ROR · ROR Community (Crossref, DataCite, ISNI, Digital Science)
ROR (Research Organisation Registry) is a community-led, open registry of unique persistent identifiers for research organisations. Launched in 2019 through a partnership of Crossref, DataCite, ISNI, and Digital Science, it provides free, open, CC0-licensed data on over 110,000 research institutions worldwide. Each organisation receives a ROR ID in the format https://ror.org/XXXXXXX. ROR IDs are increasingly required in funder and publisher metadata to clean up affiliation strings, enabling accurate institutional tracking across publications, grants, and datasets. For CASRAI, ROR is the preferred persistent identifier for the organisation-entity layer, complementing ORCID for persons and DOIs for outputs.
What to use from CASRAI
Touchpoints
- 01CASRAI Dictionary organisation entities — ROR ID is the preferred persistent identifier for institution records
- 02CRediT contribution metadata — contributor affiliation fields in JATS XML and Crossref/DataCite deposits should carry ROR IDs
- 03CRIS integrations (Pure, Converis, Esploro) — configure affiliation fields to store and expose ROR IDs
- 04Publisher submission systems — Editorial Manager and ScholarOne now support ROR for affiliation disambiguation at submission
- 05Grant metadata — major funders (NIH, Wellcome, Gates) are adopting ROR for grantee affiliation disambiguation
Setup
Integration steps
- 1Look up your institution's ROR ID at ror.org/search and confirm the canonical record
- 2Add ROR ID to author affiliation metadata in your CRIS or publication management system
- 3Configure your publisher submission system to capture or validate ROR IDs at submission alongside ORCID iDs
- 4Include ROR IDs in JATS XML <aff> elements and in Crossref/DataCite deposit metadata
- 5For institutional repositories, add ROR to the affiliation authority list so deposits carry the persistent identifier
