Publications

Marshall, M. T. B., Pinfield, S., Abbott, P., Cox, A., Alperin, J. P., Chtena, N., & Fleerackers, A. (2025). “It’s messy and it’s massive”: How has the open science debate developed in the post-COVID era? (No. 14:500). F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.162577.1 Download
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), 240857. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240857 Download
Donathan II, D., Nason, M., Tullney, M., Shi, J., & Alperin, J. P. (2025). Evaluating Multilingual Metadata Quality in Crossref (No. arXiv:2503.11853). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.11853 Download
Chtena, N., Alperin, J. P., Pinfield, S., Fleerackers, A., & Pasquetto, I. V. (2025). Preprint servers and journals: rivals or allies? Journal of Documentation, ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-09-2024-0215
Chavarro, D., Alperin, J. P., & Willinsky, J. (2025). On the Open Road to Universal Indexing: OpenAlex and Open Journal Systems. SciELO Preprints. https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.11205
Shi, J., Nason, M., Tullney, M., & Alperin, J. (2025). Identifying Metadata Quality Issues Across Cultures. College & Research Libraries, 86(1). https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.86.1.101 Download
Dorsch, I., Hare, M., Mongeon, P., & Peters, I. (2024, November 14). Mapping Open Science Scholarly Literature. 28th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (STI2024), Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.14163843
Céspedes, L., Fleerackers, A., & Maggio, L. A. (2024). “Giving them the best information I could with whatever I had at hand”. Physicians’ online health communication practices in a post-normal science context. Journal of Science Communication, 23(6), A04. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.23060204 Download
Benson Marshall, M., Pinfield, S., Abbott, P., Cox, A., Alperin, J. P., Barata, G. F., Chtena, N., Dorsch, I., Fleerackers, A., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: a qualitative analysis of published materials from the period of the pandemic. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1), 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03804-w Download
Chtena, N., Pasquetto, I., Fleerackers, A., Pinfield, S., Marshall, M. B., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). “Does it feel like a scientific paper?”: A qualitative analysis of preprint servers’ moderation and quality assurance processes. MetaArXiv Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/mp6ky
Alperin, J. P., Shores, K., Fleerackers, A., & Chtena, N. (2024). Stark Decline in Journalists’ Use of Preprints Post-pandemic. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470241285405 Download
Fleerackers, A., Moorhead, L. L., Alperin, J. P., Riedlinger, M., & Maggio, L. A. (2024). From impact metrics and open science to communicating research: Journalists’ awareness of academic controversies. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.03.609638 Download
Barata, G., Oliveira, M., Peixoto, T., Almeida, C. C. de, Mazoni, A. F., Comesana, R. C., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). Comunicado de imprensa como indicador de atenção social qualificada da ciência: a construção de um banco de dados e suas potencialidades. Liinc em Revista, 20(1), e7046–e7046. https://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/7046 Download
Ng, J. Y., Liu, H., Masood, M., Farin, R., Messih, M., Perez, A., Aalbersberg, Ij. J., Alperin, J., Bryson, G. L., Chen, Q., Ehrlich, A., Iorio, A., Meester, W. J. N., Willinsky, J., Grudniewicz, A., Cobo, E., Cranston, I., Cress, P. E., Gunn, J., … Moher, D. (2024). Publisher preferences for a journal transparency tool: A modified three-round Delphi study (No. 13:915). F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.154408.1 Download
Fleerackers, A., Moorhead, L. L., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). “I’d like to think I’d be able to spot one if I saw one”: How science journalists navigate predatory journals. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.07.24.604934 Download
Haustein, S., Schares, E., Alperin, J. P., Hare, M., Butler, L.-A., & Schönfelder, N. (2024). Estimating global article processing charges paid to six publishers for open access between 2019 and 2023 (No. arXiv:2407.16551). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.16551 Download
van Bellen, S., Alperin, J. P., & Larivière, V. (2024). The oligopoly of academic publishers persists in exclusive database (No. arXiv:2406.17893). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.17893 Download
Butler, L.-A., Hare, M., Schönfelder, N., Schares, E., Alperin, J. P., & Haustein, S. (2024). An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers (2019-2023) (No. arXiv:2406.08356). arXiv. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.08356 Download
Butler, L.-A., Hare, M., Schönfelder, N., Schares, E., Alperin, J. P., & Haustein, S. (2024). Open dataset of annual Article Processing Charges (APCs) of gold and hybrid journals published by Elsevier, Frontiers, MDPI, PLOS, Springer-Nature and Wiley 2019-2023. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CR1MMV
Hare, M., Haustein, S., & Butler, L.-A. (2024). Call for papers: Current issues in scholarly publishing. The Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science, 47(1), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.5206/cjils-rcsib.v47i1.18648 Download
Maggio, L. A., Chtena, N., Alperin, J. P., Moorhead, L., & Willinsky, J. M. (2024). “The best home for this paper”: A qualitative study of how authors select where to submit manuscripts. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.14.594165 Download
Unzurrunzaga, C., Monti, C., Zalba, G., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). Acceso abierto en Argentina: una propuesta para el monitoreo de las publicaciones científicas con OpenAlex (No. arXiv:2404.19627). arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.19627 Download
Alperin, J. P., Portenoy, J., Demes, K., Larivière, V., & Haustein, S. (2024). An analysis of the suitability of OpenAlex for bibliometric analyses (No. arXiv:2404.17663). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17663 Download
Simard, M.-A., Butler, L.-A., Alperin, J. P., & Haustein, S. (2024). We need to rethink the way we identify diamond open access journals in quantitative science studies. SciELO Preprints. https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.8272
Marshall, M. B., Pinfield, S., Abbott, P., Cox, A., Alperin, J. P., Barata, G., Chtena, N., Dorsch, I., Fleerackers, A., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2024). The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: An analysis of expert opinion. SocArXiv Papers. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/xy874
Fleerackers, A., Shores, K., Chtena, N., & Alperin, J. P. (2024). Unreviewed science in the news: The evolution of preprint media coverage from 2014-2021. Quantitative Science Studies, 1–40. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00282 Download
Fleerackers, A., Chtena, N., Pinfield, S., Alperin, J. P., Barata, G., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2024). Making science public: a review of journalists’ use of Open Access research. F1000Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.133710.2 Download
Maggio, L. A., Céspedes, L., Fleerackers, A., & Royan, R. (2024). ‘My doctor self and my human self’: A qualitative study of physicians’ presentation of self on social media. Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15384
Atef, N., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2023). Why do health professionals create content on social media? Uses and Gratifications of Egyptian “physician vloggers” on YouTube. The Journal of Social Media in Society, 12(2), 188–210. https://www.thejsms.org/index.php/JSMS/article/view/1287 Download
Chtena, N., Alperin, J. P., Morales, E., Fleerackers, A., Dorsch, I., Pinfield, S., & Simard, M.-A. (2023). The neglect of equity and inclusion in open science policies of Europe and the Americas. SciELO Preprints. https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.7366 Download
Dorsch, I., Lemke, S., & Peters, I. (2023). Analysis of “open access publishing characteristics” for COVID-19 and cancer publications in web of science. In W. Semar (Ed.), Nachhaltige Information – Information für Nachhaltigkeit. Tagungsband des 17 (pp. 387–392). Glückstadt: Verlag Werner Hülsbusch. https://doi.org/https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10009338 Download
Butler, L.-A., Matthias, L., Simard, M.-A., Mongeon, P., & Haustein, S. (2023). The Oligopoly’s Shift to Open Access. How the Big Five Academic Publishers Profit from Article Processing Charges. Quantitative Science Studies, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00272 Download
Lemke, S., Dorsch, I., & Peters, I. (2023, October 27). Post-pandemic changes in the adoption of OA models – a case study on Covid-19 and cancer research. Workshop on Informetric, Scientometric, and Scientific and Technical Information Research (METSTI 2023), London, UK. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10555358 Download
Tayler, F., Brunet, M., Gregory, K., Harper, L., & Haustein, S. (2023). Data Management Planning for Open Science Workflows. In Research Data Management in the Canadian Context. Western University, Western Libraries. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5206/TAMA6130
Maggio, L. A., Céspedes, L., Fleerackers, A., & Royan, R. (2023). “My doctor self and my human self”: A qualitative study of physicians’ presentation of self on social media. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.27.23296214 Download
Harper, L. M. (2023). Data Reuse Among Digital Humanities Scholars: a Qualitative Study of Practices, Challenges and Opportunities [Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa]. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-29651
Shi, J., Nason, M., Tullney, M., & Alperin, J. P. (2023). Identifying Metadata Quality Issues Across Cultures. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/6fykh Download
Moorhead, L. L., Fleerackers, A., & Maggio, L. (2023). “It’s my job”: a qualitative study of the mediatization of science within the scientist-journalist relationship. Journal of Science Communication, 22(4), A05. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22040205 Download
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 Download
Alperin, J. P., Fleerackers, A., Riedlinger, M., & Haustein, S. (2023). Second-order citations in altmetrics: a case study analyzing the audiences of COVID-19 research in the news and on social media. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.04.05.535734 Download
Atef, N., Fleerackers, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2023). “Influencers” or “doctors”? Physicians’ presentation of self in Youtube and Facebook videos. International Journal of Communication, 17(0), 24. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/19700 Download
Butler, L.-A. (2023). Funding the business of open access: a bibliometric analysis of article processing charges, research funding, and the revenues of the oligopoly of publishers [Thesis, Université d’Ottawa / University of Ottawa]. https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-28896 Download
Cobey, K. D., Haustein, S., Brehaut, J., Dirnagl, U., Franzen, D. L., Hemkens, L. G., Presseau, J., Riedel, N., Strech, D., Alperin, J. P., Costas, R., Sena, E. S., van Leeuwen, T., Ardern, C. L., Bacellar, I. O. L., Camack, N., Britto Correa, M., Buccione, R., Cenci, M. S., … Moher, D. (2023). Community consensus on core open science practices to monitor in biomedicine. PLOS Biology, 21(1), e3001949. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001949 Download
Ninkov, A. B., Ripp, C., Gregory, K., Peters, I., & Haustein, S. (2023). A dataset from a survey investigating disciplinary differences in data citation (Version v1) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555363
Gregory, K., Ninkov, A. B., Ripp, C., Roblin, E., Peters, I., & Haustein, S. (2023). Tracing data: A survey investigating disciplinary differences in data citation. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.7555266
Ratcliff, C. L., Fleerackers, A., Wicke, R., Harvill, B., King, A. J., & Jensen, J. D. (2023). Framing COVID-19 Preprint Research as Uncertain: A Mixed-Method Study of Public Reactions. Health Communication, 1–14. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2164954
Atef, N. (2022). If the Evidence is Not Research, What is it? Egyptian Physicians’ Explanations of the Lack of Research Citations in their Health Vlogs. Health & New Media Research, 6(2), 299–317. https://doi.org/10.22720/hnmr.2022.6.2.299 Download
Alperin, J. P. (2022). De la tecnocracia a la equidad y la sustentabilidad: por otra ciencia abierta. Revista Eletrônica de Comunicação, Informação & Inovação em Saúde, 16(4), 974–985. https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v16i4.3524 Download
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 Download
Alperin, J. P. (2022). Why I think ending article-processing charges will save open access. Nature, 610(7931), 233–233. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03201-w Download