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Ivonne Lujano Vilchis
Community Manager
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Education/Degree:
1 Educational Policy and Evaluation Educational Policy and Evaluation (Arizona State University)
About
Ivonne Lujano Vilchis earns a Ph.D. in Education Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University (ASU). Her research interests focus on higher education systems, scholarly communications, research evaluation, science policy, and open access to academic publications. Currently, Dr. Lujano Vilchis is an ambassador of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in Latin America. This role has allowed her to collaborate with several universities and government agencies of the region to adopt best practices for scholarly journals and open science policies. She is part of the Advisory Board of the Library Partnership Rating, which aims to evaluate how publishers’ practices align with the values of librarianship. She has taught in public and private universities in Mexico. She earned a master’s degree with an emphasis in Education from FLACSO Argentina and a bachelor’s degree in Education. Ivonne also has a background in dance; she is currently an amateur Argentine tango dancer.
Current Work
Dr. Lujano Vilchis’ scholarship is centered on tackling the barriers to accessing academic knowledge through digital technologies. More specifically, she studies how scholarly journals are powerful tools for disseminating research outputs, allowing society to learn about what scientists do in universities and research centers. Dr. Lujano Vilchis recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Evaluation at Arizona State University. Her dissertation titled “Assembling an International Editorial Board. An Account of Diversity in a Scientific Mega-Journal” investigated how biases regarding researchers’ geographic origin are reproduced in the editorial process of international scholarly journals. Lujano Vilchis also writes about multilingualism and gender equity in science and research systems. She has worked in open-access publishing initiatives for over ten years. Thus, she combines her scholarship with her activism regarding democratizing academic knowledge.
Research Area Keyword(s)
scholarly communications, open access publications, academic journals, science policy, knowledge mobilization