Jian Qin is Professor of the iSchool at Syracuse University. She conducts research in areas of metadata, knowledge and data modeling, scientific communication, research collaboration networks, and research data management. Her research has received funding from IMLS to develop an eScience librarianship curriculum and from NSF for the Science Data Literacy project. Jian Qin directs a Metadata Lab that focuses on metadata analytics and metadata modeling and linking. Her team uses GenBank metadata as a novel data sources to study biomedical collaboration networks under the theoretical framework of collaboration capacity, which was funded by NSF and NIH/National Center for General Medical Science. She and her colleagues developed a Capability Maturity Model for Research Data Management funded by a grant from the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). She was a visiting scholar at the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), where she developed the learning object vocabulary project. Jian Qin has published widely in national and international research journals. She was the co-author of the book Metadata and co-editor for several special journal issues on knowledge discovery in databases and knowledge representation. She is the recipient of the 2020 Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology.
Jian Qin holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Western Ontario and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jian Qin’s contact information can be found from the faculty directory at School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Her profile is also available on 
and Experts@syracuse.edu.