Scott B. Weingart

Scott B. Weingart is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student at Indiana University, where he studies Information Science and History of Science. His research focuses on the intersection of historiographic and quantitative methodologies, particularly as they can be used to study scholarly communications in the past and present. He also writes a blog called the scottbot irregular, aiming to make computational tools and big data analytics accessible to a wider, humanities-oriented audience. When not researching, Scott fights for open access and the reform of modern scholarly communication.