Meet the current members of the LIS-Bibliometrics committee.
Dr. Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes (Chair)
Dr. Barbara S. Lancho Barrantes is a Senior Lecturer in Data Analytics and Data Science at the University of Brighton. She has a PhD in Bibliometrics from the University of Extremadura (Spain) and developed within SCImago research group. She has led the Bibliometrics Service at the University of Leeds and she has been a Postdoctoral researcher in Data Analytics and Scientometrics at Tecnologico de Monterrey (Mexico). Her scientific production mainly focuses on factors influencing research productivity, citation flows and mappings on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She is a Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
Sarah Hyland (Secretary)
Sarah is Open Access Publications Officer at Durham University and has previously worked as Copyright Adviser at Northumbria University and as a Subject Librarian at the University of Bath. As part of her role, Sarah manages the block grants from UKRI and Wellcome, advocates for open access, and provides support and advice to researchers on issues relating to scholarly communication.
Rachel Miles (Blog Manager)
Rachel is the Research Impact Coordinator and Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. She assists administrators and researchers with research metrics, assessment, analytics, and communication. A large part of her position focuses on researcher profiles and support for the research information management system, Elements, used at Virginia Tech. She also focuses on online researcher visibility and impact in her educational materials and instruction, which incorporates three main concepts: openness and discoverability of scholarly outputs, researcher profiles and their connections, and promotion and communication of research. She grounds her work in fair, ethical, and responsible research assessment and has taken efforts in university governance to advocate for and help implement equitable and responsible research assessment practices. She received her MLS from Emporia State University in 2015.
Laura Bredahl (Deputy Blog Editor)
Laura is Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. In this role she coordinates and provides institutional level leadership and support for research impact metrics. She is a member of the ORCID-CA Governing Committee. She also lead the development of the Association of Vision Science Librarians Vetted List of Journals which received the 2020 MLA Louise Darling Medal for Distinguished Achievement in Collection Development in the Health Sciences. She received her MIS from the University of Toronto.
Dr Kruti J Trivedi (International Relations Officer)
Kruti is a scientist at Information and Library Network Centre (INFLIBNET) which is an Inter University Centre of University Grants Commission. She is leading bibliometric team at INFLIBNET for various national projects such as university ranking, research assessment & accreditation and conducting training programme. She is also associated with eShodh-Sindhu Consortium which provides access to e-resources to government universities. In her doctoral research, she has assessed the impact of access to e-resources provided to Indian Universities through two major government library consortia on their research output.
Michelle O’Hara (Training and Events Officer)
Michelle is the College Librarian for Scholarly Research Communications at the University of Glasgow. In her current role she leads the University’s institutional repository (Enlighten) team, supports the institution in the use of Bibliometrics and promoting the use of Responsible Metrics, and Open Research more broadly. Michelle has 16 years professional experience working in the library sector, with 9 years specialising in Open Research and received her MSc in Information Management & Preservation from the University of Glasgow.
Andy Herzog (Training and Events Officer)
Andy is the Research Information Management Librarian at the University of Minnesota. His work involves managing the Pure profile system at his institution and supporting researchers with the analysis and visualization of research metrics. Research interests include open research infrastructure, AI, and societal impact. In his twelve years of academic librarian experience, he has held a range of roles including duties with reference, instruction, assessment, and digital identity.
Merinne Whitton (Open Research Officer)
Merinne is the Research Services Consultant (Bibliometrics) at the University of Leicester. She has previously worked as a research analytics officer in the team responsible for coordinating Leicester’s Ref2021 submission. Her current role involves generating metrics analyses for various institutional purposes and delivering training on responsible metrics and the tools available to analyse them. Merinne sits on the University’s Open Research & Scholarship Leadership Group, and is leading on Leicester’s contribution to the UKRN’s Open and Responsible Researcher Reward and Recognition (OR4) workstream.
Sheila Craft-Morgan (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer)
Sheila is the Research Impact Librarian and an Assistant Professor at Ohio State University. She leads the development of systematic, scalable approaches that support scholarly research impact within the research lifecycle. She also supports faculty, staff and students in managing, communicating and promoting the impact of their scholarly work. Sheila holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ohio State, an MLS from Kent State University and a J.D. from Capital University Law School. She has more than 20 years of experience in institutional research and expertise in data analysis and visualization.
Nicola Wylie (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer)
As Research Intelligence (RI) Manager at Lancaster University, UK, Nicola leads the strategic and operational elements of the bibliometrics analysis service, enabling academics and the University to understand the impact of research globally. She believes Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) should be interwoven into everyday practices and activities.
Jeffrey Demaine (Research Liaison Officer)
Jeff is the Bibliometrics and Research Impact Librarian at McMaster University, and had the same role at the University of Waterloo. He worked at the National Research Council of Canada for a dozen years, and then at iFQ in Germany. His recent publications have uncovered Sleeping Beauty articles, characterized trends in the gender of researchers, and has captured the interplay between Altmetrics and citations. He is a co-organizer of the annual Bibliometrics and Research Impact conference (www.bric-conference.ca). His interest in Bibliometrics began so long ago that his first analysis used the Science Citation Index in printed format.
Rebecca Barber (Research Integrity Officer)
Rebecca is the Ethics and Integrity Coordinator at Taylor and Francis. She coordinates and tracks patterns of behaviour across large scale ethics cases using bibliometrics and metadata, and uses this to contribute to a variety of industry working groups, tools and initiatives. She received her MA in Publishing from Oxford Brookes University and previously worked in children’s and adult trade publishing.
Dr. Elizabeth Gadd (Founding Chair)
Elizabeth (Lizzie) is the Founding Chair of LIS-Bibliometrics and continues to support the community in an emeritus capacity. She is a Research Policy Manager at Loughborough University and chairs the INORMS Research Evaluation Group and champions the ARMA Research Evaluation Special Interest Group. She was the recipient of the 2020 INORMS Excellence in Research Management Leadership Award.
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