Zohreh Zahedi, PhD.

About me

Who am I?

My name is Zohreh Zahedi, I'm from Shiraz (Iran).

What is my background?

My background is in Information Science. I obtained both my Bachelor and Master degrees in Information Science with honor from Shiraz University in Iran and I obtained my PhD Degree from Leiden University, in the Netherlands.

What is my expertise?

My expertise is in Quantitative Studies of Science specializing in research metrics and indicators (i.e. Social media metric, bibliometrics indicators, & research evaluation).

What are my research interests?

My Research interests are Social Media metrics (altmetrics); Web-based scholarly communication; research evaluation; Webometrics & Scientometrics analysis; and Social Media Studies of Science. I'm also interested in Open Science and Open Access to research outputs, open research data and infrastructure, open metrics and public interest in science.

What do I do now?

Currently, I'm a visiting researcher and member of Quantitative Science Studies (QSS) research group at at Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University in the Netherlands and particularly contribute to the research line in Social Media Studies of Science. I'm also an invited honorary assistant Professor of Knowledge & Information Science at Persian Gulf University in Iran. I'm the chair of the Social Media Data Studies (SMDS) research group at PGU in which I collaborates with distinguished international researchers in the field.

What are my hobbies?

Biking, swimming, and cooking are my favorite hobbies.

More about me

I've diverse scientific, executive, professional, and advisory experiences gained from my diverse career path and different roles (as a university lecturer, head of department, researcher, project advisor, scientific and editorial board member) that I've performed so far. I'm highly motivated and very enthusiastic to learn new things and gain diverse experiences in my area of expertise and beyond. I've great perseverance in achieving my scientific and professional goals. I'm a great team player and feel highly responsible to perform the tasks that I'm responsible for. I enjoy my advisory role in helping others to grow by sharing my knowledge and experiences with them and leading and supervising their works to achieve success. I enjoy solving problems and tackling different challenges.

Academic Education

2012-2018: PhD Degree, Quantitative Studies of Science specializing in Social Media Metrics & research evaluation, Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands.

2000-2006: Master and Bachelor Degrees with honor, Information Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

Academic Work Experience

2018-

• Visiting researcher CWTS, Leiden University, The Netherlands. January 2019-Present.

• Invited Honorary assistant professor of Information Science, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran. January 2018-Present.

2012-2018:

• PhD Candidate & Researcher in Altmetrics (Social Media metrics) & research evaluation at Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, The Netherlands.

• Research collaborator in projects entitled ‘Knowledge in the making in the European society (KnowMak)’, 'Social media profiles and funding landscaped of South African research’ (Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics & Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Stellenbosch university, South Africa); Social impact analysis graph (SIAgraph, EuroStars)’, (Monocl AB and Recorded Future AB, Sweden), 2015-2018.

• Visiting researcher École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences del'information (EBSI), Université de Montréal (UDeM) Canada, July 2014 – August 2014.

• Visiting researcher Natural Language Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. April-May 2018.

• Teaching professional course on ‘social media metrics’ as part of the CWTS ‘Measuring Science and Research Performance’ course for professionals.

2008-2012:

• Faculty Member (University Lecturer) at the Department of Knowledge & Information Science, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran.

• Guest university Lecturer at the Department of Knowledge & Information Sciences, PNU, Bushehr, Iran.

2006-2008:

• Researcher at the Regional Information Center for Science & Technology Studies(RICeST), Shiraz, Iran.

• Guest university Lecturer at the Department of Knowledge & Information Sciences, PNU, Shiraz, Iran.

Editorial board

• Journal of Altmetrics (JOAL)

• Metrics Toolkit

Reviewer

• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST)

• Journal of Informetrics

• Scientometrics

• Research evaluation

• ASLIB Proceedings

• PloS One

• International Journal of Information Science and Management (IJISM)

• Frontier Scholarly Metrics and Analytics (specialty section of Frontiers in Library and Information Sciences)

• Science & Technology Indicators (STI) conference

• International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI) conference

• Altmetric workshop

Academic Grants, Honors, and Awards

• Honorable mention of the Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship Award 2015

• Thomson Reuters 1:AM altmetrics project funding award, December 2014

• Leiden University Fund proposal award, 2014

• FORCE 2015 travel fellowship, supported by Elsevier/Mendeley, Moore, NSF, PLoS, Sloan, Oxford, UK, 2015

• Altmetric.com travel grant award, 1st altmetrics conference in London, Sep 2014

• Honorary registration award, ACM Web Science & Altmetrics Conference, June 2014, Indiana University, USA.

• IATUL travel grant award, Aalto University Library, Helsinki, Finland Jun 2014

• PLOS ALM travel award, ALM workshop 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA.

• The most active Twitter contributor Award, Altmetrics16 Workshop, Bucharest, Romania, 27 September 2016.

• Excellent University Lecturer & Faculty Member award, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran, 2010

• National Ph.D. Scholarship Award, Iran Ministry of Science, Research & Technology (MSRT), 2010

• Excellent & Gifted Student in Knowledge & Information Sciences M.A. entrance exam 2004, Sanjesh Org, Tehran, Iran.

• Excellent B.A.Student in Knowledge & Information Sciences, 2004.Shiraz University, Iran.

National and international organizations memberships

• National Information Standard Organization (NISO) altmetrics data quality group

• International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI )

• European Network of Indicators Designers (ENID)

• Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T)

• ASIS&T Special Interest Group for the measurement of information production and use (SIG/MET)

• Future of Research, Communications & e-Scholarship (FORCE11)

• Leiden University PhD Association (LEO)

• Iranian Library & Information Sciences Association (ILISA)

• Collaboration Network (COLLNET)