Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow on Preprints and Open Peer Review - Scholarly Communications Lab | ScholCommLab

"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."