Postdoctoral Fellowship on Preprints and Open Peer Review
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Juan Pablo Alperin
May 6, 2025, 11:17:23 AM5/6/25
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Postdoctoral Fellowship on Preprints and Open Peer Review at the ScholCommLab
Full details: https://www.scholcommlab.ca/join-us/hiring-postdoctoral-fellow-on-preprints-and-open-peer-review/
Application deadline: May 23rd, 2025
Start date: Flexible, ideally July 2025
Application deadline: May 23rd, 2025
Start date: Flexible, ideally July 2025
Description
The Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join a multi-year research initiative exploring the evolving role of preprints and open peer review in scholarly publishing. This position will support the lab’s broader goal of advancing more equitable, transparent, and sustainable forms of knowledge dissemination.
The postdoctoral fellow will focus on the project’s computational and quantitative research components, analyzing large-scale datasets to examine how scholarly manuscripts evolve through the research and review process, what factors shape the visibility, dissemination, and fate of preprints, and how open peer review is reshaping norms around feedback and revision.
This work is part of a broader, interdisciplinary collaboration led by Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin that brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore how open publishing practices are being taken up, pushed back against, and reshaped—across disciplines, regions, and institutional settings—and what these changes might signal for the future of scholarly communication.
Research questions may include
The Scholarly Communications Lab (ScholCommLab) at Simon Fraser University is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join a multi-year research initiative exploring the evolving role of preprints and open peer review in scholarly publishing. This position will support the lab’s broader goal of advancing more equitable, transparent, and sustainable forms of knowledge dissemination.
The postdoctoral fellow will focus on the project’s computational and quantitative research components, analyzing large-scale datasets to examine how scholarly manuscripts evolve through the research and review process, what factors shape the visibility, dissemination, and fate of preprints, and how open peer review is reshaping norms around feedback and revision.
This work is part of a broader, interdisciplinary collaboration led by Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin that brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to explore how open publishing practices are being taken up, pushed back against, and reshaped—across disciplines, regions, and institutional settings—and what these changes might signal for the future of scholarly communication.
Research questions may include
- What types of changes occur between preprints, submitted versions, and final published articles—and how do those changes vary across disciplines, publication models, and review formats?
- What are the trajectories of preprints that are never formally published, and what can they tell us about exclusion, gatekeeping, or alternative models of validation?
- To what extent do open peer review reports identify substantive methodological, ethical, or interpretive issues in manuscripts—and what patterns emerge in terms of what gets missed or emphasized?
- How can findings about manuscript changes and review processes be communicated in formats that reach beyond academia—e.g., blogs, data dashboards, public talks, or policy briefs—to support greater accountability in scholarly publishing?
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