← Research Organisations (ROR)
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Find research organisations by name, acronym or keyword, optionally filtered by country and type.
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Find research organisations by name, acronym or keyword, optionally filtered by country and type.
- cost
- Free then $0.001 / call
- MCP tool
- ror__search
- method
- GET
Free up to 100 calls a day over MCP (500 with a free key), then $0.001 per call by card credit or USDC. Free key · Pay by card
GET https://fourzerotwo.si/v1/ror/search
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| q | string | Name, acronym or keyword |
| country? | string | 2-letter country code |
| type? | string | education, funder, healthcare, company, archive, nonprofit, government, facility, other |
# free: send a free key from https://fourzerotwo.si/free curl -H "X-API-Key: fzt_…" "https://fourzerotwo.si/v1/ror/search?q=imperial%20college" # no key: returns 402 with the price, for x402 agents curl -i "https://fourzerotwo.si/v1/ror/search?q=imperial%20college"
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Use it from an AI agent (MCP)
Add the server once, then ask for this data in plain English. The agent finds the endpoint with search_apis and runs it with call_api.
{
"mcpServers": {
"fourzerotwo": { "type": "http", "url": "https://fourzerotwo.si/mcp" }
}
}
# the call the agent makes
call_api {"tool": "ror__search", "arguments": {"q":"imperial college","country":"GB"}}
More from Research Organisations (ROR)
- Organisation by ROR id — Full record: names and aliases, types, status, founding year, location, website, domains, external ids.
- Match an affiliation string — Turn a free-text affiliation (as printed on a paper) into the matching organisation, with ROR's confidence fla...
- Lookup by external id — Find the organisation for a GRID id, ISNI, Wikidata QID or Crossref Funder ID.
- Parents & children — Parent, child and related organisations of a ROR record.
Research Organization Registry (ROR), https://ror.org, CC0 1.0.