Juan Pablo Alperin

Biography

Juan Pablo Alperin is an Associate Professor in the Publishing Program, the Scientific Director of the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), and the Co-Director of the Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab). 

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. He also serves on the boards and steering committees of international 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.

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

van Bellen, S., Alperin, J.P., & Larivière, V. (2025). Scholarly publishing’s hidden diversity: How exclusive databases sustain the oligopoly of academic publishers. PLoS One, 20(6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0327015

Chtena, N., Alperin, J. P., Morales, E., Fleerackers, A., Dorsch, I., Pinfield, S., & Simard, M.-A. (2025). Towards an inclusive open science: examining EDI and public participation in policy documents across Europe and the Americas. Royal Society Open Science, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240857

Simard, M.-A., Butler, L.-A., Alperin, J.P., & Hausten, S. (2024). We need to rethink the way we identify diamond open access journals in quantitative science studies. Quantitative Science Studies. 5(4), 1042–1046. https://doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1162/qss_c_00331

Khanna, S., Ball, J., Alperin, J.P., & Willinsky, J. (2022). Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing: A modest step in a vast decolonization process. Quantitative Science Studies, 3(4), 912–930. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00228