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Xu Jie is a Professor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, serving as Director of the Department of Smart Publishing and Digital Culture and Deputy Director of Wuhan University Library. Her primary research focuses on Open Science, academic information communication, and information literacy. She works as a part-time researcher at CIBBER-Research Ltd. and...

He is an Associate Research Librarian and serves as the Deputy Director of the Data Resources Department, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is mainly responsible for the development of the scientific literature data resource guarantee system of the Chinese Academy of Sciences consortium. His research and professional scope covers the construction and...

Dr. Maurits van den Boogert is co-Chief Publishing Officer at De Gruyter Brill, and Managing Director Koninklijke Brill B.V.. He joined Brill in 2006 after having worked at Leiden University for a few years. Since then, he has been developing Brill’s publishing program in different capacities, most notably in the field of the Middle East,...

Niels leads BMJ Group’s global publishing activities for the healthcare knowledge provider. This includes The BMJ and nearly 70 specialty journals, as well as the Group’s Events, BMJ Careers, and Learning businesses. Niels brings over 20 years of international leadership experience within the Springer Nature Group. He joined from Springer Nature, where he most recently...

Jin Jianbin is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Director of the University Library, Vice Chairman of the Academic Degrees Evaluation Committee, and Chair of the Sub-Committee for Journalism and Communication under the Academic Degrees Evaluation Committee, Tsinghua University. He also serves as Deputy Chair of the Steering Committee for Library and Information...

More than 20 years in international academic publishing, spanning books, scholarly journals, and conference proceedings, alongside expertise in bibliometrics and research metrics.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Imtiaz Subhani, PhD in Quantum Finance and Postdoctoral Researcher in Open Science at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, stands as a distinguished voice in the global chorus of Open Science and the ethics of scholarly communication. Honoured with the Web of Science ScholarOne Vision Award (2015), he presently serves as Professor...

Liu Juan, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Future Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. She is engaged in interdisciplinary research in the field of biomaterials and organoids. She has been honored with the title of Beijing Outstanding Young Talent, selected for the Beijing Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Lifting Program,...

Dr Jia previously served as Senior Editor at eBioMedicine and Science Bulletin. She has extensive experience in scholarly publishing, with deep expertise in journal operations, peer review, and research ethics. She is actively engaged in medical writing and publishing education across leading medical schools in China.

Ziyad Marar is President of Global Publishing at Sage, leading editorial, marketing production and sales teams across the globe, where he has overall responsibility for Sage’s publishing strategy across journals, textbooks and born digital products. He has spoken and written on this theme in various international contexts and in early 2015 was appointed to the...