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Improve the quality of organization data with the leading organization persistent identifier (PID) solution trusted by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders for 20 years

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Increase interoperability and efficiency with PIDs

Connect your systems, streamline publishing workflows, and eliminate data siloes with Ringgold’s market-leading persistent identifiers. Ringgold IDs link multiple datasets across systems, eliminating manual processes typically used by data teams when unifying multiple datasets. Ringgold also supports ISNI (an ISO standard – ISO 27729) as a bridge identifier to enable connections of different datasets in support of broader interoperability.

Make confident decisions with high-quality data

Ringgold’s unparalleled data quality helps you fuel confident, data-driven strategic decisions and streamline reporting on research activity, funding, and organization affiliations. CCC has implemented dozens of different data quality metrics, analyzing completeness, consistency, currency, and redundancy, to continually improve the quality of Ringgold data.

Save time on manual data cleanup

Free your teams from spending time on manual data cleanup with expertly curated, normalized, and enriched organization data delivered by CCC’s data management experts, who have over 200 years’ collective experience.

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Ringgold Organizations

Trusted data about global organizations engaged in scholarly research

Ringgold Organizations provides publishers and service providers trusted, high-quality data to fuel confident, strategic decisions, streamline reporting, and support interoperability with an expertly curated database of global organizations that fund, create, and use scholarly research.

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Get your Ringgold ID or ISNI ID

Persistent identifiers (PIDs) uniquely identify your organization. 
Find your organization’s Ringgold ID or ISNI ID using our complimentary lookup service, or request a new ID.

Get Your Organization ID

Additional Services

Ringgold Audit Service

Normalize and enrich your data.

Leverage trusted data experts to help you normalize and enrich your data to create a clean, comprehensive set of global organization data.

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Ringgold Validate Service

Create new Ringgold IDs on demand.

Enables Ringgold Organizations users to immediately generate new Ringgold IDs for organizations not currently held in our database.

Ringgold Consortium Directory

Comprehensive, expertly curated database of up-to-date global consortia records.

Helps with the understanding of the complex organizations of licensing consortia. A comprehensive database with records for nearly 350 licensing consortia worldwide, Ringgold Consortium Directory supports publishers in strategic sales planning and empowers them to easily craft individual offers.

Ringgold by the numbers

770,000+
organization records, each with a unique Ringgold ID, rich hierarchies, and over 30 descriptive metadata elements

Used by
80
leading publishers, service providers, and funders

99.9%+
of Ringgold ID's have a corresponding ISNI ID

32,300 +
funder records

139,000 +
new records added in the past 12 months

254,000 +
records updated in the last 12 months

What makes Ringgold unique

Organization persistent identifiers
  • Includes 770,000+ organization records, each with a unique Ringgold ID, rich hierarchies, and more than 30 descriptive metadata elements
  • Link related organizations to form structured, granular hierarchies that reflect real-world relationships
  • Robust geographic and demographic metadata
Unparalleled data quality
  • CCC has implemented dozens of different data quality metrics, analyzing completeness, consistency, currency, and redundancy to continually improve the quality of Ringgold data
  • Machine-readable FAIR data and metadata
Data experts you can trust
  • Ringgold Organization data is curated, maintained, and quality controlled by a team of data management and language experts with over 200 years’ collective experience
  • The data team has manually audited over 1.69 million distinct client organizational records, matching them to Ringgold records, since 2011

Client success stories

Society for Neuroscience Leverages Ringgold Organizations to Standardize and Augment its Information Assets

While SfN possessed a wealth of records and information on their members and constituent organizations, a lack of standardization and demographic data prevented it from employing its data as an asset.

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The IET’s Inspec Analytics Research Intelligence Tool Leverages Ringgold Organizations to Standardize and Enhance Organizational Data

Looking to better understand what information their customers needed to help them define their research goals and strategy, the IET team embarked on an effort to directly engage with their customer base.

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IEEE Uses Ringgold to Normalize and Disambiguate Organization Data to Strengthen the Integrity of Article Metadata

IEEE needed a solution to disambiguate its data so it could map authors and documents to the correct organization and improve data-driven decision-making.

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Ringgold

Improve the quality of organization data with the leading organization persistent identifier (PID) solution trusted by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders for 20 years

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