Jian Qin is Professor Emerita of Library and Information Science 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. 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 recently retired from Syracuse University after 26 years of teaching, research, and service. She is still active in research and professional association services. Her contact information can be found from the faculty directory at School of Information Studies, Syracuse University. Her profile is also available on ORCID.