Data, Open Science, Scholarly Communication
I am a Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University and a Research Fellow at the Research on Research Institute.
My expertise is in Science & Technology Studies (PhD) and Library & Information Science (MSc). My research investigates scholarly and science communication practices & infrastructures. I focus on those related to (research) data, open science, peer review, and research evaluation.
I have worked in the United States, Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands.
More about me (full CV)
Connect with me:
k.m.gregory@cwts.leidenuniv.nl
publications (selected)
Full publication list here
Diverse outputs & venues
Journal articles & preprints
Koesten, L., Yew, J., & Gregory, K. (2025). Human-Data Interaction: Thinking beyond individual datasets. ACM Interactions. https://doi.org/10.1145/3705537
Gregory, K., Koesten, L., Schuster, R., Möller, T., & Davies, S. (2024). Data journeys in popular science: producing climate change and COVID-19 data visualizations at Scientific American. Harvard Data Science Review, 6(2). https://doi.org/10.1162/99608f92.141c99cf
Gregory, K., Haustein, S., Poitras, C., Roblin, E., Ninkov, A., Ripp, C., & Isabella, P. (2024, under review). Digging deeper into data citations: Recognizing and rewarding data work. Zenodo. [preprint] https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14068756
Gregory, K., Ninkov, A., Ripp, C., Roblin, E. Peters, I., Haustein, S. (2023). Tracing data: A survey investigating disciplinary differences in data citation. Quantitative Science Studies. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00264
Conference proceedings
Koesten, L., Saske, A., Starchenko, S., & Gregory, K. (2025). Encountering Friction, Understanding Crises: How Do Digital Natives Make Sense of Crisis Maps? In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 825, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713520
Zhang, P., Gregory, K., Yoon, A., & Palmer, C. (2023). Conceptualizing data behavior: Bridging data-centric and user-centric approaches. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60:856-860. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.878
Gregory, K.; Ninkov, A., Ripp, C.; Peters, I.; Hausten, S. (2022). Surveying practices of data citation and reuse across disciplines. Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Granada, Spain. https//doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6951436
Books & book chapters
Gregory, K.; Groth, P., Scharnhorst, A., Wyatt, S. (2023) The mysterious user of research data: Knitting together Science and Technology Studies with Information and Computer Science. In Bijsterveld , K. & Swinnen, A. (Eds). Interdisciplinarity in the scholarly life cycle: Learning by example in humanities and social science research. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11108-2
Gregory, K. & Koesten, L. (2022). Human-Centered Data Discovery. In Synthesis Lectures on Information Concepts, Retrieval and Services. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18223-5
Datasets
Ninkov, A., Ripp, C., Gregory, K., Peters, I., & Haustein, S. (2023). A dataset from a survey investigating disciplinary differences in data citation. Zenodo [dataset]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7555363
Gregory, K. (2020). Data discovery and reuse practices in research [dataset]. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xsw-kkeq
Opinion and outreach
CWTS Focal areas. (2025, April). Strengthening science through diversity. https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/strengthening-science-through-diversity
Gregory, K.; Admiraal, F.; Flohr, P.; Hoffman, A.; Lippincot, S.; van Leeuwen, T. (2025, February). Reusing data: Bridging the distance between data consumers and producers. https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/reusing-data-bridging-the-distance-between-data-consumers-and-producers
Gregory, K. & Ninkov, A. (2021, July). Data citations in context: We need disciplinary metadata to move forward. [Blog post]. Retrieved from: https://makedatacount.org/2021/07/14/data-citations-in-context-we-need-disciplinary-metadata-to-move-forward/
Reports and white papers
Mayernik, M., Gregory, K., de Rijcke, S., Borgman, C. L., & Beaulieu, A. (2025). Evaluating Emerging Knowledge Infrastructures: Learnings and Directions. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14946534
Gregory, K.; Waltman, L. Pinfield, S.(2024). Peer review in funding organizations: An analytical literature review (RoRI Working Paper No.11). Research on Research Institute. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26861680.v5
Mustajoki, H., Pölönen, J., Gregory, K., Ivanović, D., Brasse, V., Kesäniemi, J., Koivisto, E., & Pylvänäinen, E. (2021). Making FAIReR assessments possible. Final report of EOSC Co-Creation projects: “European overview of career merit systems’’ and “Vision for research data in research careers.” https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4701375
Invited talks (selected)
Full list of talks here
Conferences, lectures, talks
Gregory, K. (2024, November). Data citations in practice. Presented to the Danish National Research Data Management Network, Virtual RDM lunch series (online)
Gregory, K. & Koesten, K. (2024, May). Human-centered data discovery: Curating for data discovery and reuse. Presented at the Data Curation Network All Hands Meeting, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina.
Gregory, K. (2023, May). Questioning data citations. Presented at the Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS), Leiden University, Research Seminar series.
Gregory, K. (2023, February). Tensions in data sharing and reuse: The perspective of researchers. Presented at the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association (OASPA) Webinar Series, online.
Gregory, K. (2023, April). The value of open data: A meta-research(er) perspective. Presented at AGU/CHORUS Forum: How open is open data and software? Online. Slides available: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7851628
Gregory, K. (2022, February). The flip side of FAIR: How do researchers find and reuse data? Presented at FAIR Coffee Lecture Series, Maastricht University, online.
Gregory, K. (2021, October). Disciplining Data. Presented at CAPTURE Talk Series, Uppsala University, online https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5556994
Projects
Caring for COVID-19 data: Sustaining open data infrastructures
Principal Investigator, Leiden University
Three-year, multi-sited study of how COVID-19 data and open data infrastructures are curated and maintained
Peer Review
Researcher, Research on Research Institute
Two-year study of peer review practices in publishing, funding, career advancement and institutions
Talking charts
Co-Principal Invesitgator, University of Vienna
Three-year study of how data visualizations related to COVID-19 and climate change are produced and understood
Meaningful Data Counts
Researcher, University of Ottawa
Two-year study of investigaged practices of data citation and reuse via scientometric and qualitive methods
Re-SEARCH
PhD researcher, Data Archiving and Netowrked Services; Maastricht University
Four-year doctoral research of cross-disciplinary practices of data discovery, sensemaking and reuse
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