Judith Naidorf holds a PhD in Educational Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She is a Principal Investigator at CONICET (National Scientific and Technical Research Council) at the IICE-UBA (Institute of Educational Research of the University of Buenos Aires) and a Professor in the Educational Sciences Department at the same university. She trained at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and has lectured and taught courses in various countries. She directs research projects on science policy and higher education in Latin America and has published over one hundred works on these topics. She has supervised ten doctoral dissertations, twenty postgraduate scholarships, and has advised unions in the fight against the privatization of knowledge and in the promotion of critical pedagogies.

Matías Alcántara is a sociologist and university researcher-professor specializing in Social Studies of Science and Technology. He trained at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and currently teaches at UBA and the University of Belgrano in areas related to the sociology of science (and evaluation) and social science research methodology. His career combines academic research on the links between science, politics, and society with active participation in critical scientific evaluation initiatives, as part of the FOLEC-CLACSO coordination team. He also works as an institutional evaluation specialist at the Undersecretariat of Science and Technology of Argentina. His experience also includes work in the self-managed publishing sector, connecting academic knowledge with social and grassroots movements.

Rodrigo Costas is a senior researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University (Netherlands). He is also an Extraordinary Associate Professor at the Centre for Research in Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) ​​at Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His areas of expertise include information science, scientometrics, and social network metrics. At CWTS, he leads the altmetrics research line, which focuses on developing new theoretical and analytical approaches to study the interactions between social networks and science. Other research topics include developing advanced scientometric studies of individual academics and studying funding acknowledgments as a new source of scientometric data. In addition to his research activities, Rodrigo participates in various European research projects and on a contract basis.

Jonathan Dudek is a junior research fellow at CWTS. He earned a Master of Science in Communication from the University of Amsterdam in August 2020 and worked as a research assistant at CWTS during his studies. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communication, Culture, and Management from Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Germany. At CWTS, Jonathan works on various research projects, including researcher mobility, research funding, and online scientific communication. As part of this work, he contributes to contract research projects. He focuses on quantitative analysis, typically working with publication metadata. Jonathan also coordinates the CWTS External Communications Team.