My name is Thomas Klebel and I am a sociologist. I work as a project manager and researcher in the Open and Reproducible Research Group at Know-Center GmbH in Graz. From March 2020 to March 2022, I was project manager and researcher for the H2020 project ON-MERRIT.

My master’s thesis in sociology was on social mobility, but I spend most of my professional time now researching questions on scholarly communication, bibliometrics and open science. For my PhD, I research potential negative side-effects of Open Science within the academic publishing system.

Although my focus has been on sociology and stats/data science for a few years now, I initially trained as a musician, receiving a BA for playing the cello.

All my publications can be found on Google Scholar or ORCID.