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Search Research Organizations (ROR)

ror/search-organizations

Searches the ROR registry of research organizations by name, acronym or alias, 20 per page, optionally filtered by country, type or status. Each hit has the ROR id, all names, types, locations, links, external ids (GRID, ISNI, Wikidata, FundRef) and relationships. 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.

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Price

$0.0026 per call

You pay the price shown. If a call turns out to cost more than its quote, you pay the actual price, capped at twice the quote. No monthly minimum. Top-ups start at $0.50.

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.

Use it

Five steps: search, inspect, learn, run, settle. No per-tool setup; your agent reaches this tool through the meta-tools it already has.

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agent
// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "ror/search-organizations" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "ror/search-organizations" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "ror/search-organizations", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "ror/search-organizations", input: { /* ... */ } })

// 5. settle: the call is charged when it finishes, nothing to do

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Pricing

Every charge this tool can incur.

ChargePrice
Per call
$0.0026
Updated
Oct 27, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema
input_schema.json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "page": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 1,
      "maximum": 500,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Page number, 20 organizations per page, default 1, at most 500."
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(?!.*\\b(?:AND|OR|NOT)\\b)(?!.*-\\s*$)(?!.*\\s-)[^\\s:()\\[\\]{}\"\\\\/^~*?!|<>=+#%\\-][^:()\\[\\]{}\"\\\\/^~*?!|<>=+#%]{0,199}$",
      "maxLength": 200,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Name, acronym or alias, for example massachusetts institute of technology. Letters, digits, spaces and . , ' & - only; the words AND, OR and NOT are refused."
    },
    "filter": {
      "type": "string",
      "pattern": "^(types|status|country\\.country_code|country\\.country_name):[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,59}(,(types|status|country\\.country_code|country\\.country_name):[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9 ._-]{0,59}){0,3}$",
      "description": "Optional filter, key:value pairs joined by commas: types (education, funder, company, nonprofit, government, healthcare, archive, facility, other), status (active, inactive, withdrawn), country.country_code (IE) or country.country_name (Ireland). Example: country.country_code:IE,types:education."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
Output schema
output_schema.json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "number_of_results",
    "items"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "meta": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "types": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "A facet.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "description": "Counts per organization type."
        },
        "statuses": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "A facet.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "description": "Counts per status."
        },
        "countries": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "A facet.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "description": "Counts per country."
        },
        "continents": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "A facet.",
            "additionalProperties": true
          },
          "description": "Counts per continent."
        }
      },
      "description": "Facet counts for the whole result set.",
      "additionalProperties": true
    },
    "items": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "id",
          "names"
        ],
        "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": "An organization.",
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "Organizations on this page, best match first."
    },
    "time_taken": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Milliseconds the search took."
    },
    "number_of_results": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Total matches."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": true
}