Asura Enkhbayar

Data Scientist & Researcher
asura.enkhbayar@gmail.com
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Current interests

  • (1) Approaching open science and scholarly infrastructure critically with both theory and practice in mind.
  • (2) Exploring questions around the governance and sustainability of public infrastructure.
  • (3) Shifting open science towards open means rather than open ends.

Skills

Infrastructure

  • Experienced in working with, building, and assessing open infrastructure projects:
    • Extensive knowledge of global research infrastructure and open science landscape
    • Highly familiar with issues of funding, governance, and sustainability
    • Strong theoretical foundation in infrastructure studies and social justice concerns

Data in Practice

  • Years of experience as a data scientist working in various settings and scales:
    • Experienced in scoping, managing, and maintaining data projects
    • Highly proficient in Python and Jupyter Notebooks
    • Experience with web development for research and dissemination purposes

Data in Theory

  • My empirical data work is guided by several principles:
    • Technology studies: Technology is always political.
    • Critical data studies: Metrics alter the measured.
    • Performativity: The “how” of all data matters.

Work Experience

DataSeerAI (Vancouver, Canada)

Data Scientist

Development and assessment of Open Science Indicators around the generation and use of data, code, preprints, and protocols in scholarly publications.

Jan 2023 — Feb 2024
OA.Works (UK | remote from Vancouver, Canada)

Advisor

Research and consultation work for OA.Works on its governance structure inlcuding the review and assessment of Articles of Governance (AoG).

Feb 2023 — Jul 2023
Invest in Open Infrastructure (US | remote from Vancouver, Canada)

Research Data Analyst

Worked on the development of the theoretical and conceptual foundations for IOI’s work in advocating for more open and community-owned infrastructures. Conducted interviews and focus groups with various stakeholders in the space including funders, institutions, and infrastructure providers and launched the [Catalog of Open Infrastructure Services] (https://investinopen.org/research/catalog/) (COIs).

Jul 2021 — Apr 2022
ScholCommLab (Vancouver, Canada)

Data Scientist | scholarly communication

Independent research as well as lead for data science in collaborative research projects. Focus on reproducibility and transparency. Project lead for open source software development.

Oct 2017 — May 2021
KnowCenter (Graz, Austria)

Junior researcher | open science

Research on the dissemination of persistent identifiers for scholarly documents. Research and development on visual search engines for academic articles.

Jan 2015 — Dec 2015
VrVis (Vienna, Austria)

Junior researcher | medical imaging

Independent research into and development of a novel machine learning approach to classicy radiological images of heel bones to assess osteoporosis.

Mar 2015 — Oct 2015

Education

Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada)

PhD, Critical Citation Studies (Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies)

Research exploring the concept of critical citation studies with empirical work on the social and technical dimensions of scholarly infrastructure. Established collaborations outside of reseach with infrastructure and open source organizations.

since Oct 2017
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)

MSc in Cognitive Science (partial)

Completed a year abroad at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Completed all coursework towards degree; thesis pending.

2013 — 2018
University of Applied Sciences Technikum (Vienna, Austria)

BSc, Electronics

Term abroad at the University of Loughborough (UK) in 2013

2010 — 2014

Awards

Coalition Publica Scholarship (8000 CAD)

Exploring the concept of Critical Citation Studies with focus on the social and technical dimensions of scholarly infrastructures.

Jul 2022
Frictionless Tool Fund Grant (5000 USD)

Development of an open source data specification for scholarly metrics.

Jul 2020
Invitation to OpenCon 2016 - Travel Grant (1500 USD)

Competitively-awarded invitation to OpenCon (Washington D.C., USA) and travel grant.

Nov 2016
RDA Early Career European Researchers Programme - Travel Grant (1500 EUR)

Travel grant to attend RDA 2015 (Paris, France) as an early career researcher.

Sep 2015
INiTS Award - 3rd Place (1000 EUR)

INiTS awards innovative scientific works with prospect for economic applicability.

Oct 2014

Publications

A list of publications is available online: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0CeeRv0AAAAJ

Journal Articles

Fleerackers, A., Nehring, L., Maggio. L.A., Enkhbayar, A., Moorhead L., Alperin J.P. (2022). Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric. com news mention data. Scientometrics https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04510-7 2022
Enkhbayar, A., Haustein, S., Barata, G., & Alperin, J. P. (2020). How much research shared on Facebook happens outside of public pages and groups? A comparison of public and private online activity around PLOS ONE papers. Quantitative Science Studies, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00044 2020
Maggio, L.A., Ratcliff, C. L., Krakow, M., Moorhead, L. L., Enkhbayar, A., & Alperin, J.P. (2019). Making headlines: An analysis of US government-funded cancer research mentioned in online media. BMJ Open, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-025783 2019
Tennant, J.P., Crane, H., Crick, T., Davila, J., Enkhbayar, A., Havemann, J., Kramer, B., Martin, R., Masuzzo, P., Nobes, A., Rice, C., Rivera-López, B., Ross-Hellauer, T., Sattler, S., Thacker, P. D., & Vanholsbeeck, M. (2019). Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing. Publications, 7(2), 34. https://doi.org/10/gf4gvx 2019
Kraker, P., Kittel, C., & Enkhbayar, A. (2016). Open Knowledge Maps: Creating a Visual Interface to the World’s Scientific Knowledge Based on Natural Language Processing. 027.7 Zeitschrift Für Bibliothekskultur / Journal for Library Culture. https://doi.org/10.12685/027.7-4-2-157 2016

Conference Papers

Enkhbayar, A., & Alperin, J. P. (2018). Challenges of capturing engagement on Facebook for Altmetrics. STI 2018 Conference Proceedings, 1460–1469. http://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01194 2018
Kraker, P., Enkhbayar, A., & Lex, E. (2015). Exploring Coverage and Distribution of Identifiers on the Scholarly Web. 14th International Symposium of Information Science (ISI 2015). http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.05096 2015
Hladuvka, J., Enkhbayar, A., Norman, B., & Ljuhar, R. (2016). Automated ROI placement and trabecula-driven orientation for radiographic texture analyses of calcaneus. Proceedings - International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 2016-June. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISBI.2016.7493235 2016

Talks

Conference Talks

Enkhbayar, A. (2021, June 2). Metrics in Context: A Data Specification For Scholarly Metrics. FOSDEM21. https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/fosdem/2021/D.research/open_research_scholarly_metrics.webm 2021
Enkhbayar, A. (2020, August 19). Citations as Infrastructure: Developing an Analytic Framework For The Politics of Citations. 4S Annual Meeting. EASST4S, Prague. http://tinyurl.com/y6pjcyc5 2020
Enkhbayar, A. (2019, May 9) Annotations in the Classroom; The Classroom in Annotations. csv,conf,v4, Portland, USA. https://csvconf.com/2019/speakers/ 2019
Enkhbayar, A. (2018, October 11). Throwing away the ladder. Wittgenstein’s philosophy and scholarly communication [Conference talk]. Future of Research Communication and e-Scholarship Conference, Toronto, Canada. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1462173 2018

Posters

Alperin, J. P., Enkhbayar, A., Piwowar, H., Priem, J., & Wass, J. (2018, September 28). Collecting, Calculating and Displaying Altmetrics with Open Source. 5AM: Altmetrics Conference. http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18390 2018
Enkhbayar, A., Schramm, M., Kraker, P. (2018) Open Knowledge Maps: A visual interface to the world’s scientific knowledge. International Conference on Electronic Publishing (ELPUB). 2018
Enkhbayar, A., Fischer, B., Hoogland, D., Hopper, R., & Maroni, F. (2017, June). On the Very Idea of a Constructivist Master Program. Poster presented at the MEi:CogSci Conference 2017, Budapest. Retrieved from http://www.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/php/ocs/index.php/meicog/meicog2017/paper/view/994 2017
Kraker, P., Enkhbayar, A., Schramm, M., Kittel, C., Chamberlain, S., Skaug, M., & Brembs, B. (2017, March). Open Knowledge Maps: A Visual Interface to the World’s Scientific Knowledge. Poster presented at the Open Science Conference 2017, Berlin. 2017
Enkhbayar, A. (2015). Bibliometric Crawling Framework & Digital Identifier Analysis. RDA 6th plenary meeting, Paris. Poster available: https://zenodo.org/record/50816 2015
Enkhbayar, A. (2014, September 3). Automated ROI Placement in High-Resolution Radiographs of Calcaneus [Poster]. Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine (VCBM 2014), Vienna. http://www.vcbm.org/previous-workshops/vcbm-2014-previous/vcbm-214-programme/ 2014

Teaching

Guest Lectures

Open Science and Global Communication Divides. CMNS 346 (Development Communication) at Simon Fraser University. Course instructor: Katherine Reilly. https://www.sfu.ca/students/calendar/2019/fall/courses/cmns/346.html Sep 2018

Workshops

Enkhbayar, A. (2017b, November 30). How and Why to Open Science—Grad Student Style [Workshop]. II PhD Workshop, Institute of Neurosciences, Barcelona. http://www.neurociencies.ub.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/II-PhD-Workshop-Institute-of-Neurosciences-Long-Version.pdf 2017
Enkhbayar, A. (2017a, June 23). Like if reductionist, comment if non-reductionist: A Comparison of the Almetric Perfomance in Neuroscientific Literature. Mei:CogSci Conference 2017, Budapest. http://www.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/php/ocs/index.php/meicog/meicog2017/paper/view/1064 2017
Enkhbayar, A. (2016b, June 23). Raiders of the Lost Work [Workshop]. MEi:CogSci Conference 2016, Vienna. http://www.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/php/ocs/index.php/meicog/meicog2016/paper/view/934 2016

Service

Open Source

Open Knowledge Maps

Developer and team member. Core contributor to the codebase. Represented the project at several conferences.

2014 — 2020
Open Source Alliance for Open Scholarship (OASOS) (NYC, USA)

Contributor to the development of the OASOS Handbook hosted by Code for Science and Society.

2018
eLife Innovation Sprint (Cambridge, UK)

Participant at the first eLife Innovation Sprint was an Open Source coding sprint dedicated to scientific publishing.

2018

Advisory Boards

Open Knowledge Maps
2020 — ongoing

Organizing Committees

FORCE11 (online)
2021
FORCE11 (San Sebastian, Spain — postponed due to Covid-19)
2020
OpenCon Cascadia (Portland, USA)
2018
OpenCon (Berlin, Germany)
2017


Last updated: 22.03.2023