A database of over 88,000 research institutes with persistent identifiers.Institutes added from various sources including China, Ireland, Korea, Bahamas, United Kingdom, United States and top 1000 R&D companies world wide.Metadata:- Review of Chinese GeoNames IDs in Hong Kong and Beijing areaQA:- Review of the Chinese Academy of ScienceNote: the geonames information is from geonames.org and licensed as CC-BY 3.0.

A database of over 89,000 research institutes with persistent identifiers.Institutes added from various sources including Korea, India and other international datasets.Metadata: - Added around 7,000 Wikidata IDs to GRID records.QA: - Review of non-English Wikipedia links. - Review of Wellcome Trust institutes and centers (source data mappings, relationships). - Review of companies from Russian and Chinese sources.Note: the geonames information is from geonames.org and licensed as CC-BY 3.0.

A database of over 85,000 research institutes with persistent identifiers.Institutes added from various sources including the US, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and other countries.Metadata:* US dependencies (American Samoa, Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) are treated as states of the US.* Chinese dependency Hong Kong is treated as a state/region of China.* Changed country name from "Palestinian Territories" to UN and ISO standard "State of Palestine".* Created parent-child relationships for around 200 multinational companies.QA* Review of all EU bodies and agencies.* Review of parent-child relationships of Sea Grant and Space Grant organisations.* Adaption of country name changes: Czech Republic is now Czechia.* Review of potential duplicates.Note: the geonames information is from geonames.org and licensed as CC-BY 3.0.