2026 April 27

Matching funders in scholarly metadata: linking names to ROR IDs

In April 2025, we launched the metadata matching project, in order to add missing relationships to the scholarly metadata. We will do this by consolidating all existing and planned matching workflows, which enrich member-deposited metadata in Crossref. This unified service will result in a more complete research nexus. In this blog post, we share our latest milestone: developing and evaluating a strategy for matching funder metadata to Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers.

Key takeaways

• Funder matching links funding organisation names to persistent identifiers, helping us understand how research outputs are funded and supported.
• We built a new strategy to automatically match funder names in Crossref metadata to ROR identifiers.
• Evaluated on a manually labeled dataset of 3,505 funder names, the strategy achieves 99% precision and 81% recall.
• This is the first production deployment of Crossref’s new metadata matching framework, paving the way for future matching tasks across affiliations, references, grants, and more.

You can join us at our Community Update Call on 13th May for a brief demonstration of the funder matching process.

2026 April 23

Why metadata matters for research integrity: a new joint guide from Crossref and DataCite

Preserving the integrity of the scholarly record is an important component of the overall endeavour to protect research integrity. Open scholarly infrastructure enables persistent recording of research objects and associated metadata, which provides an evidence trail for these objects for all in the research community. Crossref and DataCite – as providers of essential infrastructure for preservation of the scholarly record – we share our joint expertise in the new guide on “Why metadata matters for research integrity and how to contribute”.

2026 April 13

Strengthening community connections in São Paulo

Versão em português

As our global community continues to grow, it is important for us to build and maintain our connections within it. In March this year, we had the opportunity to visit São Paulo for a community event at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. The content of our presentations is available online. Events such as this provide an opportunity for us to update our members on Crossref fundamentals and developments, and help us better tune in to the varied needs of our communities and learn how we can work together more effectively. This was our third visit to Brazil, with previous events held in Campinas and São Paulo in 2016, and Goiânia and Fortaleza in 2018. 

2026 April 01

Reflections from Bangkok

Each organization in the global community of Crossref members (that’s currently over 24k organizations in 166 different countries) plays a key role in building the Research Nexus. Any opportunity we have to meet with our members in person is a highlight and a way for us to learn more from each other. The month of January saw three of us travel to Bangkok to attend the first-ever Charleston Conference organised in Asia and to meet with our growing community in Thailand.