Dr. 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. Sanam holds a Master’s degree in information science from Tehran University and a PhD in information science from Alzahra University. She conducted part of her doctoral work on information-seeking behavior as a visiting researcher at McGill University.

Her research interests are centered on social media and scholarly communication using mixed research methods, including meta-analysis, open science, open data and research data sharing, scholarly metrics, and open educational resources.