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IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg has over 25 years of experience in scholarly publishing. From 1997 till 2024 he held a variety of positions at Elsevier, most in areas where publishing, technology, and user focus intersect. Amongst others, IJsbrand Jan worked at Elsevier’s Engineering Information division, where he led the creation of the second-generation Engineering Village platform....

Dr. Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany). She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Perugia (Italy) with a background in international economics. However, she later shifted her research focus to corruption in higher education, academic misconduct, plagiarism, paper mills, and predatory and hijacked journals. Her research not only involves...

Petra Abbam brings her 12 years of experience in publishing, at society and commercial publishing houses, to her current role as Production Manager at the British Institute of Radiology, driving intelligent growth and innovation. Her areas of expertise include production management and full life cycle operations for books, journals and other digital products.

Carmen is an innovator who views the world through the lens of possibilities and progress. With a unique blend of technical and creative expertise as both an engineer and a musician, she constantly explores the systems around her to find efficient and original ways to advance them. Since 2015, Carmen has gained extensive experience in...

Stephen Abram, MLS, is a strategy and direction planning consultant for libraries and the information industry as managing principal at Lighthouse Partners, an associate of Dysart & Jones.  He is also the executive director of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries.  He is a library trend watcher and innovator and author of Stephen’s Lighthouse blog,...

Bev Acreman became Commercial Director at the Open Access Publisher, BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) in 2009. A key part of this role is communicating the benefits of Open Access and liaising with universities, and their libraries, about how Open Access is beneficial to the process of publishing for the communities they serve. Previously she worked at...

Daniel Acuna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder.   He has created tools to improve literature search, peer review, and detect scientific fraud. He has been funded by NSF, ORI (DDHS), Sloan Foundation, and DARPA. In 2021, he organized the Computational Research Integrity (CRI-CONF) conference, and...

Simon Adar holds a BSc. in electrical engineering from the Technion; an MSc. in electro-optical engineering from Ben Gurion University; an EMBA from Tel Aviv university and did his PhD. in Environmental studies at Tel Aviv university including an internship in Yale at the applied mathematics department.   Simon has been managing R&D groups for the...

Euan Adie is founder of publishing services company Altmetric.com, which captures and collects article level metrics and the online conversations around papers for publishers, funders and academic institutions. Euan was previously a senior product manager at Nature Publishing Group, where projects at one time or another included scientific blog aggregator postgenomic.com, Connotea, Nature.com Blogs and...

I am currently a Deputy Director of Journals, Europe at World Scientific Publishing (WSP). Before that I had the privilege of serving as a Chief Commissioning Editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Wiley for 8 years. Prior to my publishing career, I worked at the Council of National Research in Italy where I simultaneously completed a...