University reference
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University, established in 1855, is an active ROR organization in State College, 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/04p491231
- Country
- US
- City
- State College
- Administrative area
- Pennsylvania
- Website
- https://www.psu.edu
- Established
- 1855
- Organization types
- education, funder
- Aliases
- Penn State
- Acronyms
- PSU
- External identifiers
fundref 100008321, 100009791, 100008649, 100007164, 100006769, 100013438, 100011594, 100011177, 100011568, 100011610, 100011612, 100016596, 100020384, 100020861, 100020359, 100020860 grid grid.29857.31 isni 0000 0001 2097 4281, 0000 0004 5907 5867 wikidata Q739627 - Organization relationships
child 04nv7tt16, 033r52n02, 0225cwm17, 03jdj0g52, 00v1rqk12, 011apn769 related 01h22ap11 - Latitude
- 40.79339
- Longitude
- -77.86
- 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.
| Aliases | Penn State |
|---|---|
| Acronyms | PSU |
| FUNDREF identifiers | 100008321, 100009791, 100008649, 100007164, 100006769, 100013438, 100011594, 100011177, 100011568, 100011610, 100011612, 100016596, 100020384, 100020861, 100020359, 100020860 |
| GRID identifiers | grid.29857.31 |
| ISNI identifiers | 0000 0001 2097 4281, 0000 0004 5907 5867 |
| WIKIDATA identifiers | Q739627 |
| ROR child relationships | 04nv7tt16, 033r52n02, 0225cwm17, 03jdj0g52, 00v1rqk12, 011apn769 |
| ROR related relationships | 01h22ap11 |
Wikidata structured context
Published identifiers and revision
Only allowlisted structured claims are used. Wikipedia prose and Wikimedia media are not copied.
| QID | Q739627 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision | 2521534425 | ||||||||||||
| Modified | 2026-07-23T08:30:40Z | ||||||||||||
| Structured label | Pennsylvania State University | ||||||||||||
| Website | https://www.psu.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: Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Acoustic Wave Resonator Technologies, Semiconductor materials and devices
Annual indicator
Institution works indexed by OpenAlex
13,601.00 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 | 13,601.00 works | — | — |
| 2023 | 13,552.00 works | — | — |
| 2022 | 13,085.00 works | — | — |
| 2021 | 13,790.00 works | — | — |
| 2020 | 14,654.00 works | — | — |
| 2019 | 12,270.00 works | — | — |
| 2018 | 11,378.00 works | — | — |
| 2017 | 10,946.00 works | — | — |
| 2016 | 10,346.00 works | — | — |
| 2015 | 10,036.00 works | — | — |
| 2014 | 9,727.00 works | — | — |
| 2013 | 9,599.00 works | — | — |
| 2012 | 8,939.00 works | — | — |
| 2011 | 9,382.00 works | — | — |
| 2010 | 8,724.00 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
- 3da826e2cb66
- 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
- 52f4a065349a
- License
- Creative Commons CC0 1.0
- Attribution
- OpenAlex; metadata only, no full text or abstracts are published.
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