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Visiting Senior Fellow, RoRI

Lin Zhang is Professor of Information Management at Wuhan University, China. She is Executive Director of the NSFC–Wuhan University Observatory for Global Basic Research, Director of the Ministry of Education-funded Research Evaluation Reform Centre at Wuhan University, and Editor-in-Chief of Scientometrics.

Her research focuses on scientometrics, research evaluation, research policy, and the governance of research systems. She has held visiting and affiliated positions at the Centre for R&D Monitoring (ECOOM) at KU Leuven and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University.

Lin’s recent work examines research assessment reform, open research information infrastructures, and international scientific collaboration. She currently leads the work on the China Fundamental Research Development Report, a NSFC-funded initiative that explores how open research information and new analytical approaches can support a better understanding of global fundamental research systems and their evolution.

As a Visiting Senior Fellow at RoRI, she contributes perspectives from China and supports comparative research on research systems, funding, evaluation, and science governance.