Kathryn Weber-Boer is a Technical Product Specialist at Digital Science working with Altmetric and Dimensions solutions. She consults, advises, and collaborates with clients and colleagues to find creative, data-based answers to pressing questions. Her technical expertise includes the Dimensions and Altmetric APIs, analytics in Google BigQuery, and a wide range of data visualization tools.

Trained as a social scientist (AM, University of Chicago) in archaeological anthropology (MA, Cornell University) and geographic information systems (DePaul University), Kathryn’s research has focused on the impact of human-animal relationships on sociopolitical order. Her publications include an account of the orientalist underpinnings of Russian national identity, within a broader look at the social construction of the past.

Kathryn has experience in university administration ranging from grants preparation to research evaluation, and in this capacity, contributed to a transforming contemporary university library. Her recent work has looked at the importance of collaboration between social sciences and STEM research in the context of the UK, the role of mentorship on open access publishing practices, and the growing use and reuse of shared research data.

As a computational social scientist, Kathryn is dedicated to finding responsible ways to show the myriad successes of research and researchers, exploring how non-traditional metrics can help us better understand the use and perception of research, and focusing attention on research integrity to strengthen public trust in research.