Bio

Simon van Bellen is senior research advisor at Érudit and member of the UNESCO Chair for Open Science at the School of Library and Information Sciences of the University of Montréal. He aims to explore various aspects of scholarly communication, especially patterns in the use of scholarly journals, the development of open access and the evaluation of impact of research and publication. He holds a PhD in Environmental science from Université du Québec à Montréal (2011).