• While the ORCID iD acts as a unique and permanent identifier for individuals in science and research, the ROR ID is a similar identifier for scientific institutions.

• Behind the ROR ID is the Research Organization Registry, a non-profit organisation that has set itself the task of offering a worldwide and free service for disambiguating the names and designations of scientific institutions. ROR thus supports the globally unique assignment of persons and research achievements to scientific institutions.

• Unlike ORCID, an ROR entry is not created by active registration in the Research Organisation Registry, but is set up and curated by the ROR community. Public data and information about organisations is used for this purpose.

• The ROR ID of Freie Universität Berlin is 046ak2485. As part of a web address, it links to the ROR entry of Freie Universität: https://ror.org/046ak2485.

Entry of Freie Universität Berlin in the Research Organisation Registry (ROR).