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Juan Pablo Alperin's biography

Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin is an associate professor in the School of Interactive Arts & Technology, a co-director of the , and a scientific director of the at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, 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 and  websites. 

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

Selected publications

Alperin, J.P., Shores, K., Fleerackers, A, Chtena, N Stark Decline in Journalists’ Use of Preprints Postpandemic. Science Communication. doi:

Khanna, S., Ball, J., Alperin, J.P. & WIllinsky, J. Recalibrating the scope of scholarly publishing: a modest step in a vast decolonization process. Quantiative Science Studies. doi:

Matthias, L., Schares, E., Alperin, J. P., Butler, L.-A., Kuang, S., Schönfelder, N., & Haustein, S. Estimating global article processing charges paid to 14 publishers for open access between 2019 and 2025.

Piwowar, H., Priem, J., Larivière, V., Alperin, J.P., Matthias, L., Norlander, B., Farley, A., West, J. & Haustein, S. (2018). The State of OA: A large-scale analysis of the prevalence and impact of Open Access articles. PeerJ. doi: