Match an Affiliation to a Research Organization (ROR)
ror/match-affiliation
Matches a free-text affiliation, for example an author address line, to ROR organizations. Returns up to 10 candidates, each with a matching score, the matched substring and the full organization record; the chosen flag marks the confident match. Data from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), https://ror.org, released under CC0 1.0, passed through unmodified and served by Eden Engine; not an official ROR product.
Price
$0.0026 per call
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Data source
Research Organization Registry (ROR)
Data from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), https://ror.org, released under CC0 1.0. Passed through unmodified and served by Eden Engine; this is not an official ROR product.
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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })
// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "ror/match-affiliation" })
// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "ror/match-affiliation" })
// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "ror/match-affiliation", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "ror/match-affiliation", input: { /* ... */ } })
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Pricing
Every charge this tool can incur.
| Charge | Price |
|---|---|
Per call | $0.0026 |
- Updated
- Oct 27, 2026
Input and output schemas
Input schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"affiliation"
],
"properties": {
"affiliation": {
"type": "string",
"maxLength": 500,
"minLength": 3,
"description": "The affiliation text, for example University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Oxford UK."
}
},
"additionalProperties": false
}Output schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"number_of_results",
"items"
],
"properties": {
"items": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"score",
"chosen",
"organization"
],
"properties": {
"score": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Match score from 0 to 1."
},
"chosen": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "True when ROR is confident enough to pick this one."
},
"substring": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The part of the text that matched."
},
"organization": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "ROR id, a URL such as https://ror.org/042nb2s44."
},
"admin": {
"type": "object",
"description": "Created and last-modified dates and schema versions.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"links": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "website or wikipedia."
},
"value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The URL."
}
},
"description": "A link.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Website and Wikipedia links."
},
"names": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"lang": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
],
"description": "ISO 639-1 language code."
},
"types": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A name type."
},
"description": "Name types: ror_display, label, alias, acronym."
},
"value": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The name."
}
},
"description": "A name of the organization.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Names, labels, aliases and acronyms."
},
"types": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A type."
},
"description": "Organization types: education, funder, company, nonprofit, government, healthcare, archive, facility, other."
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"description": "active, inactive or withdrawn."
},
"domains": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A domain."
},
"description": "Web domains."
},
"locations": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"description": "A location.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Places, with GeoNames details."
},
"established": {
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
],
"description": "Year established."
},
"external_ids": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"description": "An external id.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Ids in other systems: fundref, grid, isni, wikidata."
},
"relationships": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "object",
"description": "A relationship.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Related organizations: parent, child, related, predecessor, successor."
}
},
"description": "The organization record.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"matching_type": {
"type": "string",
"description": "How it matched, for example PHRASE, COMMON TERMS, FUZZY, HEURISTICS, ACRONYM, EXACT."
}
},
"description": "A candidate.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"description": "Candidates, best first."
},
"number_of_results": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of candidates."
}
},
"additionalProperties": true
}