Juan Pablo Alperin

Earlier this week, the #scholcommlab published a Statement of Support for PACBI Principles. With it, I reject my university's (SFU's) complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and call them out for restricting my ability to direct the work of @PublicKnowledgeProject@mastodon.social in a principled way. www.scholcommlab.ca/pacbi/

@chartgerink@akademienl.social Yes! I also posted about this recently because i makes being on the web THAT much better.

The Masters of Publishing Program at SFU (where I work!) now has a Scholarly Communications stream. If you're into
#scholcomm
, this could be a good program for you (or your students, or people you know!). Let's spread the word. Questions welcome! https://www.sfu.ca/publishing/master-of-publishing.html.html

For Giving Tuesday, I giving donations + honorariums I've received in memory of my lovely aunt Marta. The coolest hippie aunt and statistics guru. Please consider giving to help people afflicted with this awful disease. Canada: https://als.ca/ Argentina: http://asociacionela.org.ar/web/pagina.php?id=133 US: https://www.als.org/

NEW PUB: “The Best Home for This Paper”: A Qualitative Study of How Authors Select Where to Submit Manuscripts.
https://doi.org/10.5334/pme.1517

New Preprint! Collaboration w/ @OpenAlex@mastodon.social, @stefhaustein@fediscience.org and @lariviev@mastodon.social: An analysis of the suitability of OpenAlex for bibliometric analyses.

High-level comparisons with Scopus and lots of details to better understand OpenAlex. Just as importantly, we also lay some "Remaining Core Questions for the Community". MORE NEEDED!

Hopefully this is just the first of many studies that can help improve OpenAlex to make goals of @BarcelonaDORI@mastodon.social a reality. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17663

#openInfrastructure