Alesia Zuccala

Alesia Zuccala is an Associate Professor at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Information Science at the University of Toronto (Canada) in 2004, and has an extensive international background, having held teaching and research positions in Canada, Australia, England, and The Netherlands. Prior to joining the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen, Alesia has worked in a variety of different environments including an institute for science policy studies and a consultancy unit for bibliometrics. Her specialization is in the field of scholarly communication, research evaluation, and bibliometrics; however in recent years, she has focused primarily on research outputs across the humanities. From 2012 to 2014 she was employed at the University of Amsterdam under a Spearpoint Digital Humanities fellowship funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). During this period she conducted a set of collaborative project pertaining to books and book publishers, which were financed by the Joint Center for Digital Humanities, and resulted in a series of articles published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and Scientometrics. Alesia Zuccala has been an active member of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics since 2007. She is currently also a board member of the EVALHUM initiative and a management committee member of the COST Action CA15137 – European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (ENRESSH).