Research Organizations API
Every research organization in the world as an API — powered by ROR, the Research Organization Registry. ROR assigns a persistent open identifier (a ROR ID) to universities, government labs, companies, nonprofits, hospitals, archives and research facilities, with rich, curated metadata and crosswalks to GRID, ISNI, Wikidata and the Crossref Funder Registry. Search the registry by name (and filter by country or organization type); resolve any ROR ID to its full record — names, acronyms and aliases, types, location (city, country, coordinates), website, domains, external identifiers and relationships to parent and child organizations; and match a messy free-text affiliation string ("Dept. of Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany") to the most likely organizations with a confidence score — perfect for cleaning and disambiguating author-affiliation data. It is a research-organization identifier registry, distinct from a plain university directory, and a natural companion to ORCID (for people) in any scholarly-metadata stack. Open data from ROR (CC0).
api.oanor.com/ror-api
