Sometimes a Name is Not Enough

/
Winter coming early in Colorado - good day to snuggle up with some RORs!

Winter coming early in Colorado - good day to snuggle up with some RORs!

Cite this blog as Habermann, T. (2019). Sometimes a Name is Not Enough. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.59350/w46m1-evz59

A quick post about non-unique ROR Organization names.

Many groups are interested in augmenting their affiliation metadata with RORs and it seems that a list of organization names is the right input to that process... Alas, we know that affiliations are a swamp filled with gotcha's. It turns out that an unexpected (really?) number of organization names resolve to multiple RORs. Actually, almost 800 of them! Fortunately, that leaves over 96,000 unique names!

These are the names that occur more than ten times:

54 Ministry of Health
21 Ministry of Education
19 Ministry of Justice
15 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
15 Ministry of Culture
13 Government Medical College
12 St. Luke's Hospital
12 Ministry of Finance
12 Ministry of Agriculture
11 Institute of Physics
10 St Mary's Hospital
10 Ministry of Defence

These names should raise yellow flags in any ROR adoption process! This is a list of the names and how often they occur.