Dr. Stefanie Haustein is full professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Ottawa and co-director of the ScholCommLab. She is also an affiliated researcher with several interdisciplinary research centers, including the Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), and the Centre for Journalology at the University of Ottawa, as well as the Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie at Université du Québec à Montréal.

Her research focuses on scholarly communication, research evaluation, and open science, with an emphasis on open access and the academic publishing market, as well as research data sharing and reuse. Using bibliometric and mixed methods, such as large-scale surveys and interviews, her work critically examines academic publishing, scholarly metrics, and responsible research assessment, and open science practices.

Stefanie holds a Master’s degree in history, American linguistics and literature, and information science, and a PhD in information science from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Stefanie has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal and as a research analyst at Science-Metrix, Canada as well as Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.

As a first-generation academic who pursued her degrees in Germany before immigrating to Canada for postdoctoral studies, Stefanie is committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive academic environment. She actively mentors students from diverse backgrounds, particularly first-generation academics and women.

Since co-founding the ScholCommLab with Juan Pablo Alperin in 2017, she has worked to build an interdisciplinary, international, and diverse research community that prioritizes collaboration, equity, and open science.

A selection of her recent publications is listed below, with a full record available in her CV. She can be found on LinkedIn and, less often, on Bluesky.

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