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LMU Open Science Center’s ROR ID

Our identifier in the Research Organization Registry

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TL;DR: Our ROR ID is https://ror.org/029e6qe04. Use it whenever we need to be identified as an organization rather than as an unstructured string of text — for example in a manuscript submission system, an ORCID record, or a Zenodo deposit. The ID is permanent; our name, acronyms, and website URL can and do change around it.

What Is ROR?

ROR (the Research Organization Registry) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. Every organization in the registry is assigned a ROR ID — a URL of the form https://ror.org/xxxxxxxxx — that refers to that organization and nothing else. ROR is operated as a collaborative initiative by the California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite, and it is committed to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. All ROR data is available under CC0 1.0 via a free REST API and a public data dump.

ROR serves the same purpose for organizations that ORCID iDs serve for people and DOIs serve for research outputs. Crucially, it is the default identifier supported in Crossref DOI metadata, DataCite DOI metadata, and ORCID records, so it is the natural way to record an affiliation across most of the scholarly infrastructure we interact with.

What it is for

Organizations change their names, merge, and move to new web addresses, which makes it hard to reliably connect an institution to its outputs. A ROR ID stays fixed while all of that changes. Use it to:

  • Disambiguate our organization from others with similar names — there are many “Open Science Centers”.
  • Link our tutorials, software, datasets, and publications back to us as an organization.
  • Keep affiliations meaningful across our own renaming: our domain moved from uni-muenchen.de to lmu.de, and our name appears in several variations in the wild (see below).

The main thing to avoid is supplying our affiliation only as free text. Wherever a system offers a ROR ID field, use it.

Our ROR Record

Our record is https://ror.org/029e6qe04, and it is in active status.

“LMU Open Science Center” is the registry’s display name for us, i.e. the preferred label. The other names listed are recognized aliases and acronyms, so a search for any of them should surface our record. Where a system has both a name field and a ROR ID field, entering our display name plus the ROR ID is the most useful combination.

NoteOurs or LMU München’s?

We are an organizational unit of LMU München, so our record is a child of the LMU München record. Use our ROR ID when the Open Science Center itself is the responsible organization — for our tutorials, our software, and our own events. Use the LMU München ROR ID when the relevant organization is the university as a whole.

Open Items

ROR is not yet usable in CITATION.cff

There is no way to record our ROR ID in a CITATION.cff file today. As of September 2026 the current released version of the Citation File Format, CFF 1.2.0 (released August 2021), has no ror field for entities — confirmed against the 1.2.0 schema.

The capability has been merged into CFF’s develop branch, and ROR documents how to add ROR iDs to CFF, but it will only be released with CFF 1.3.0. The maintainers have said they cannot estimate a release date due to restricted resources, and the 1.3.0 milestone remains open. Relevant discussions: issue #484 (add a ror key for entities) and issue #548 (document that ror iDs will be supported).

If CFF 1.3.0 lands, our CITATION.cff is a candidate for an update so that the OSC can be credited as an organizational author with a machine-readable identifier rather than a plain name string. Until then there is nothing to add.

History of Our Record

Date Event
11 February 2025 Request opened to add LMU Open Science Center to ROR
26 February 2025 Record created and published as https://ror.org/029e6qe04
10 June 2026 Request opened to update the website link (still pending)

If a change to our record is ever needed, submit it through the ROR curation request form or as an issue in the ror-updates repository. Requests are reviewed by ROR’s curation team, so expect a wait.

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