People
The ScholCommLab is home to visiting faculty, postdocs, and students, as well as research collaborators from across the world. Find out more about them below or in our “Three questions with…” series on our blog.
Directors
Juan Pablo Alperin
Juan Pablo Alperin is a co-director of the ScholCommLab, as well as an associate professor at the Canadian Institute for Studies in Publishing and an associate director of research of the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Stefanie Haustein
Stefanie Haustein is a co-director of the ScholCommLab as well as an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on social media in scholarly communication, bibliometrics, and altmetrics.
Research Associates
Rukhsana Ahmed
Rukhsana Ahmed is associate professor and chair in the Department of Communication and research associate at the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA.
Germana Barata
Germana Barata is a science communication researcher at the Laboratory of Advanced Studies in Journalism and the Centre for the Development of Creativity at the University of Campinas, Brazil.
Leigh-Ann Butler
Leigh-Ann Butler is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Ottawa, where she supports scholarly publishing in open journals and in the institutional repository, as well as offering guidance on open access publishing more broadly. Her research interests focus on scholarly communication, open scholarship, bibliometrics, and science policy.
Lucía Céspedes
Lucía Céspedes is a research associate at the ScholCommLab. She holds a PhD in Latin American Social Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Argentina. She is currently based in Montréal, where she works as research counsellor at the editorial consortium Érudit, and is a member of the UNESCO Chair on Open Science and the Chaire de recherche du Québec sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français.
Diego Chavarro
Diego Chavarro is a research associate at the ScholCommLab working with co-director Juan Pablo Alperin to assemble a database of bibliographic information from journals using Open Journal Systems (OJS). Diego holds a PhD and MSc from the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex (SPRU).
Natascha Chtena
Natascha Chtena is a Research Associate in the Publishing Program at Simon Fraser University and a Research Affiliate with the Public Knowledge Project. She also serves as Publishing Project Manager for mediastudies.press, an open-access publisher for the media and communication studies fields.
Sanam Ebrahimzadeh
Sanam Ebrahimzadeh is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, where her research focuses on systematic reviews and academic promotion and assessment criteria. She is also affiliated with the Scholarly Communication Lab, University of Ottawa, where she works on scholarly metrics.
Alice Fleerackers
Alice Fleerackers (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Civic Engagement at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, where she studies the intersections of journalism, health and science communication, and scholarly communication.
Kathleen Gregory
Kathleen Gregory is a researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University and a guest research fellow at the ScholCommLab. Her research investigates scholarly and science communication practices and infrastructures, with a focus on those related to (research) data, open science, peer review, and research evaluation.
Lauren Maggio
Lauren Maggio is a professor of medicine and the associate director of scholarly communication for the Center for Health Professions Education at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the United States.
Mario Malički
Mario Malički is a research associate at the ScholCommLab. After completing his studies in the School of Medicine at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Mario earned an MA in Literature and Medicine at King’s College, London, UK. He then worked at the University of Split School of Medicine, Croatia, where he obtained a PhD in Medical Ethics.
Laura Moorhead
Laura Moorhead is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University’s Journalism Department. She works to improve professional and educational practices in the areas of access to research and health information and media and information literacy.
Anton Boudreau Ninkov
Anton Boudreau Ninkov is a professeur adjoint at l’école de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) at l’Université de Montréal and a research associate at the ScholCommLab. Anton’s research focuses on visual analytics systems as well as bibliometrics and webometrics.
Isabella Peters
Dr. Isabella Peters is professor of Web Science at ZBW Leibniz-Information Center for Economics and Kiel University, Germany. She studies user-generated content and social media in scholarly communication and other use cases, altmetrics, data citations, and open access, as well as other open science practices.
Katherine Reilly
Katherine Reilly is associate professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. Broadly speaking, her work focuses on the role of communications in international relations and international development.
Michelle Riedlinger
Michelle Riedlinger is a senior lecturer in the School of Communication at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her research focuses on the communication of environmental science, health research, and risk assessment.
Eric Schares
Eric Schares (he/him) is the Engineering & Collection Analysis Librarian at Iowa State University, and a Research Associate at the ScholCommLab. He works to analyze publishing trends at Iowa State and beyond to support the open access transition in scholarly publishing.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Isabelle Dorsch
Isabelle Dorsch is a postdoctoral fellow at the ScholCommLab, working on the VOICES project (Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a Post-Pandemic World), and the ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics in Kiel, Germany.
Students
Fatou Bah
Fatou Bah is completing her master’s thesis in Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Stefanie Haustein. Her thesis focuses on the cognitive accessibility of open-access repositories, and its impact on information search behaviour.
Michel Deilgat
Michel Deilgat is the editor-in-chief of Canada Communicable Disease Report (CCDR), senior medical advisor at the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), and a graduate student in the ScholCommLab. He is completing his Master of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Stefanie Haustein.
Asura Enkhbayar
Asura Enkhbayar is an Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies PhD student and data scientist at the ScholCommLab working under the supervision of Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin. He is interested in critically exploring the infrastructure of scholarly communication in the 21st century at the intersection of philosophy and technology.
Maddie Hare
Maddie Hare (she/her/elle) is a doctoral student in the Digital Transformation and Innovation (DTI) Program at the University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Dr. Stefanie Haustein. Her research interests are all rooted in the same curiosity and desire to understand human beings, and the ways in which we produce, disseminate, and advance knowledge.
Jonas Höfting
Jonas Höfting (he/him) is a graduate student at the ScholCommLab and a student assistant at the Chair of Information Management within the Institute of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Jamie Lundine
Jamie Lundine is a PhD candidate in Feminist and Gender Studies at University of Ottawa and member of the ScholCommLab. The central question that animates her doctoral research is whose knowledge counts?
Esteban Morales
Esteban Morales works as a qualitative researcher on the ScholCommLab’s Review, Promotion, and Tenure and Hypothes.is projects. His main research interest is how data and media literacies relate to the notion of citizenship in students, especially in countries such as his home country, Colombia, that are facing the end of a conflict.
Catharina Ochsner
Catharina Ochsner (she/her) is a student at the ScholCommLab and a research associate in the Information Management research group at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.She is part of Infra Wiss Blogs, a project focusing on cooperative information infrastructure for scholarly blogs.
Chantal Ripp
Chantal Ripp is a doctoral student in the Digital Campus Transformation and Innovation Program, under the supervision of Stefanie Haustein, and research librarian at the University of Ottawa.
Cecilia Rozemblum
Cecilia Rozemblum holds a degree in librarianship and documentation from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP) and a master’s in science, technology, and society from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ), where she is currently working on a PhD in science and technology.
Johanna Schielke
Johanna Schielke is a student at the ScholCommLab and a student assistant in the Information Management Research Group in the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Marc-André Simard
Marc-André Simard is a PhD student in Information Science at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI), Université de Montréal under the supervision of Vincent Larivière and Stefanie Haustein. His research focuses on bibliometrics, open science, and science policy.
Dorothea Strecker
Dorothea Strecker (she/her) is a researcher at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin (HU Berlin) for the OA Datenpraxis project. She is working on her PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Vivien Petras (HU Berlin) and Dr. Stefanie Haustein (University of Ottawa).
Saskia van Walsum
Saskia van Walsum is a future research librarian at Statistics Canada and PhD student at the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at uOttawa, under the supervision of Stefanie Haustein.
Heather Woods
Heather Woods is a part-time professor and doctoral candidate, under the supervision of Dr. David Smith, in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her work explores how social and emotional learning is enacted and evolves within Canadian schools through research, policy, and practice.
Huma Zafar
Huma Zafar is a programmer analyst at the University of Ottawa library, and a master’s student in the School of Information Studies (ÉSIS) at uOttawa.
Staff
Belen Febres
Belen Febres (she/her) is the ScholCommLab manager and a bilingual journalist and social scientist with a PhD in Communication and a Master’s degree in Anthropology from Simon Fraser University.
Lucía Céspedes
Lucía Céspedes is a research assistant at the ScholCommLab, where she is working on a project with Lauren Maggio on the physicians’ use of social media to combat health misinformation online.
Anne Clinio
Dr. Anne Clinio (she/her) is an independent researcher, member of the Open Science and Citizen Innovation Laboratory (CindaLab) in Brazil, and Research Assistant at the ScholCommLab.
Graduates
Leigh-Ann Butler
Master’s thesis supervised by Stefanie Haustein. Funding the Business of Open Access: A Bibliometric Analysis of Article Processing Charges, Research Funding, and the Revenues of the Oligopoly of Publishers.
Lina Harper
Master’s thesis supervised by Stefanie Haustein. Data Reuse Among Digital Humanities Scholars: a Qualitative Study of Practices, Challenges and Opportunities.
Alice Fleerackers
Doctoral thesis supervised by Juan Pablo Alperin. Unreviewed science in the news: Why and how journalists cover preprints.
