ror.organizations.search
Search the Research Organization Registry (ROR) for research institutions, universities, hospitals, companies, government agencies, and funders by name, acronym, or keyword. ROR is the open community-driven registry of 110,000+ research organizations worldwide, maintained by DataCite, CrossRef, a...
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What ror.organizations.search does on Apibase
AI agents call ror.organizations.search to retrieve information from Apibase without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
page | integer | — | Page number for pagination (1-indexed, default 1). Each page returns up to 20 results. |
query | string | Yes | Keyword query to search research organizations by name, acronym, alias, or domain (e.g. "MIT", "Stanford University", "CERN"). |
all_status | boolean | — | When true, include inactive and withdrawn organizations in results. By default only active organizations are returned. |
Parameters from the server's own tool schema.
Why ror.organizations.search is rated Low
Tool queries public registry data without modifying, executing code, or affecting external systems.
From the tool's definition Search the Research Organization Registry for research institutions by name, acronym, keyword.
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The rule that runs ror.organizations.search safely
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Apibase, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ror.organizations.search, this is the rule to start with:
ror.organizations.search is read-only, so it stays allowed. Everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
The button opens the PolicyLayer dashboard: create your workspace, connect Apibase, apply this rule, and every ror.organizations.search call is checked against it from then on.
Questions about ror.organizations.search
Search the Research Organization Registry (ROR) for research institutions, universities, hospitals, companies, government agencies, and funders by name, acronym, or keyword. ROR is the open community-driven registry of 110,000+ research organizations worldwide, maintained by DataCite, CrossRef, and the California Digital Library. Each organization has a unique persistent ROR ID (e.g. https://ror.org/042nb2s44 for MIT) used in scholarly metadata, grant systems, and repositories like PubMed, Zenodo, and DataCite. Returns up to 20 results per page with name, acronym, types (Education/Funder/Healthcare/etc.), status, country, city, founding year, and website. Use page parameter to paginate. Ideal for disambiguating author affiliations, validating institution names, and building bibliometric analyses of research output by organization. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Apibase MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
ror.organizations.search accepts 3 parameters: page, query, all_status. Required: query. The full parameter table on this page comes from the server's own tool schema.
Register the Apibase MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for ror.organizations.search: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Apibase. Nothing to install.
ror.organizations.search is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the ror.organizations.search rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for ror.organizations.search. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
ror.organizations.search is provided by the Apibase MCP server (apibase-mcp-client). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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