Juan Pablo Alperin

Biography

Juan Pablo Alperin is an Associate Professor in the Publishing Program, the Associate Director of Research for the Public Knowledge Project, and the co-director of the Scholarly Communications Lab. 

Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin is an Associate Professor in Publishing, Co-Director of the ScholCommLab, , and Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Dr. Alperin is an established researcher of scholarly communications, known for bringing evidence-based perspectives to pragmatic solutions in support of open access and open science. He has published dozens of peer-reviewed publications and delivered countless presentations on related topics and serves on the boards and steering committees of various organizations, including the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) and OpenAlex. His work focuses on making scholarly communication more equitable, inclusive, and publicly engaged, particularly across Latin America and the Global South.

To learn more about Dr. Alperin’s work, visit the PKP and ScholCommLab  websites. 

Select publications are listed below. Find the complete list in his CV.

Fleerackers, A., Shores, K., Chtena, N., & Alperin, J. P. (2023). Unreviewed science in the news: The evolution of preprint media coverage from 2014-2021. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.10.548392

Fleerackers, A., Chtena, N., Oliveira, M., Dorsch, I., Pinfield, S., & Alperin, J. P. (2023). Open data journalism: A narrative synthesis of how, when, and why data journalists use open data sources. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/wh8jx

Fleerackers, A., Chtena, N., Pinfield, S., Alperin, J. P., Barata, G., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2023). Making science public: a review of journalists’ use of Open Science research [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133710.1