Crossref relationships involving research organisations

This dataset contains relationships involving research organisations deposited by publishers with Crossref and/or discovered by an automated affiliation matching strategy. It includes data deposited until the end of December 2024. The following relationships are included:

• contributor’s affiliations
• institutional contributors
• work’s institutions
• grant investigator’s affiliations

The dataset contains fields:

• DOI (string): the DOI of the source work
• relationship (contributor-affiliation, institutional-contributor, institution, or investigator-affiliation): the type of the relationship with the organisation
• contributor-role (author, editor, chair, or translator): contributor's role, if the relationship is contributor-affiliation or institutional-contributor
• contributor (object): contributor's metadata, if the relationship is contributor-affiliation
• investigator-role (investigator, lead-investigator, or co-lead-investigator): grant investigator's role, if the relationship is investigator-affiliation
• investigator (object): grant investigator's metadata, if the relationship is investigator-affiliation
• seq_num (int): sequence number of the contributor, investigator, or institution in the original work (starts from 1)
• organisation-string (string): string representing the organisation that was matched
• ror-id (string): ROR ID of the organisation, either supplied by the publisher or the matching strategy
• ror-id-asserted-by (publisher or matching): whether the ROR ID was supplied by the publisher or the matching strategy

Contributors and investigators have the following fields: given, family, suffix, alternate-name, ORCID.

The code of the affiliation matching strategy is available here.