Jason Portenoy
Jason joined Crossref in 2025 as a Data Scientist. He has experience in bibliometric research and building applications using scholarly data, and he has become a passionate advocate for the maintenance and improvement of high-quality scholarly metadata. He holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington, studying how scholarly metadata can offer insights into scientific activity and help develop tools to address information overload. He brings experience working at DataCite, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, and other organizations concerned with scholarly communication. Jason lives in New York, where he can often be found walking and biking around the city.
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To address the growing scale and complexity of scholarly data, we’ve launched a new data science function at Crossref. In April, we were excited to welcome our first data scientists, Jason Portenoy and Alex Bédard-Vallée, to the team. With their arrival, the Data Science team is now fully up and running. In this blog post, we’re sharing our vision and what’s ahead for data science at Crossref.
