University reference
Western Kentucky University
Western Kentucky University, established in 1906, is an active ROR organization in Bowling Green, US. ROR classifies the organization under education, funder. This profile preserves public aliases, acronyms, external identifiers, location details and organization relationships supplied by the Research Organization Registry, then links the record to other organizations in the same city and country and to recorded airports in the same city. It is a directory profile, not a university ranking, quality assessment, admissions guide or statement of endorsement by ROR or DataOfWorld.
Key facts
- ROR identifier
- https://ror.org/0446vnd56
- Country
- US
- City
- Bowling Green
- Administrative area
- Kentucky
- Website
- http://www.wku.edu/
- Established
- 1906
- Organization types
- education, funder
- Acronyms
- WKU
- External identifiers
fundref 100009498, 100015385 grid grid.268184.1 isni 0000 0001 2286 2224 wikidata Q1474105 - Organization relationships
- Latitude
- 36.99032
- Longitude
- -86.4436
- ROR last modified
- 2026-07-20
ROR identity context
Names, identifiers and relationships
These identifiers describe the organization record and do not imply ranking or endorsement.
| Acronyms | WKU |
|---|---|
| FUNDREF identifiers | 100009498, 100015385 |
| GRID identifiers | grid.268184.1 |
| ISNI identifiers | 0000 0001 2286 2224 |
| WIKIDATA identifiers | Q1474105 |
Wikidata structured context
Published identifiers and revision
Only allowlisted structured claims are used. Wikipedia prose and Wikimedia media are not copied.
| QID | Q1474105 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision | 2517713778 | ||||||||||||
| Modified | 2026-07-15T08:57:13Z | ||||||||||||
| Structured label | Western Kentucky University | ||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.wku.edu | ||||||||||||
| Country QID | Q30 | ||||||||||||
| Inception |
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OpenAlex institution metadata
Works and research-topic context
Institution-level directory statistics only; they are not rankings, quality judgments or endorsements.
Published topics: Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology, Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior, Corporate Finance and Governance, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
Annual indicator
Institution works indexed by OpenAlex
397.00 works2024
Institution-level yearly works counts in OpenAlex; not a ranking or quality measure. Values retain the source period and unit.
View source data
| Period | works | Source flag | Confidentiality |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 397.00 works | — | — |
| 2023 | 442.00 works | — | — |
| 2022 | 441.00 works | — | — |
| 2021 | 453.00 works | — | — |
| 2020 | 482.00 works | — | — |
| 2019 | 389.00 works | — | — |
| 2018 | 511.00 works | — | — |
| 2017 | 444.00 works | — | — |
| 2016 | 540.00 works | — | — |
| 2015 | 650.00 works | — | — |
| 2014 | 546.00 works | — | — |
| 2013 | 540.00 works | — | — |
| 2012 | 460.00 works | — | — |
| 2011 | 540.00 works | — | — |
| 2010 | 437.00 works | — | — |
Field-level provenance
Sources for this profile
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Research Organization Registry
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-20
- Dataset version
- dbdfb9b8dad3
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Research Organization Registry (ROR)
DataOfWorld deterministic university profile template
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-20
- Dataset version
- university-profile-v1
- License
- Original DataOfWorld text
- Attribution
- DataOfWorld
Wikidata structured data
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-31
- Dataset version
- 40de459fedc9
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- Wikidata structured data; DataOfWorld preserves QID and revision metadata.
OpenAlex metadata
- Applicable date
- 2026-07-31
- Dataset version
- f5229e92f2b1
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- OpenAlex; metadata only, no full text or abstracts are published.
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