MACHIN MASTROMATTEO, JUAN DANIEL

Dr. Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo is a full-time professor at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACH, Mexico). He is a Level 2 member of the National System of Researchers and actively participates in several academic collectives, including the Academic Group Information Studies, the Information and Society Seminar at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the Euro-American Inter-University Network for Research on Media Competences for Citizenship (Red AlfaMed).

Juan earned his PhD in Information and Communication Science from Tallinn University (Estonia), holds a Master’s in Digital Library Learning from a joint program between Oslo University College (Norway), Tallinn University (Estonia), and Parma University (Italy), and completed his undergraduate studies in Librarianship at the Central University of Venezuela.

His research spans a variety of areas, such as information literacy, action research, evaluation of scientific production, bibliometrics, open access, digital libraries, and scientific publishing. With more than two decades of experience, Juan has worked across archives, libraries, higher education, and professional development. His professional path has taken him through diverse roles: cataloguer, database developer, reference librarian, instructor, collection developer, designer of promotional materials for library services and multimedia resources, coordinator of information literacy programs in universities, analyst of scientific production, consultant, as well as referee and editor for scientific journals.

Juan has authored more than 150 scientific publications, including 100 articles, seven books, 31 book chapters, and 22 journal editorials. He has delivered over 60 courses tailored to researchers and has participated in more than 160 international events, serving as a speaker, panelist, organizer, or moderator.

His editorial journey includes managing over a thousand manuscripts and curating over 25 special and regular issues for journals such as Information and Learning Sciences (Emerald), Digital Library Perspectives (Emerald), and Information Development (Sage). He served as associate editor for Digital Library Perspectives from 2019 to 2023 and for Information Development from 2020 to 2024. He currently continues his editorial work in an advisory role with Revista Estudios de la Información (UACH, 2023–present) and was also a section editor for the Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science (Elsevier, 2025). In 2025, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Information Development.

Juan is also a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Academic Librarianship (Elsevier) and IE Revista de Investigación Educativa (Educational Researchers Network of Chihuahua). His peer-review contributions exceed 360 across more than 25 journals in the fields of information science and education.

From 2015 to 2020, he contributed the Developing Latin America column in Information Development. In 2019, he launched the Juantífico Project, which involves producing videos about scientific information, research, and publishing. Since 2022, he co-hosts the InfoTecarios podcast, and since 2023, he publishes the School of Editors section in Revista Estudios de la Información.