Data Scientist · Researcher · Software Developer
Over a decade of experience in academia and industry.
Specialising in machine learning, bibliometrics, data analytics,
and the development of data-driven applications that support research and innovation.
About me
I am Dr. Fakhri Momeni, a highly adaptable and results-oriented Data Scientist based in Monheim am Rhein, Germany. My academic and professional journey spans social network analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, and causal inference.
I am passionate about using data science to support open science, reproducibility, and impactful research. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science and years of hands-on project work in European research initiatives, I bring a unique blend of technical proficiency, research insight, and cross-cultural collaboration to every challenge.
Projects
Throughout my career, I have contributed to and led numerous interdisciplinary projects, including:
Advancing reproducibility standards and best practices in computational social science research.
Investigating the relationship between research repository visibility and its impact on data citation behaviour.
Building semantic tools for linking thesaurus concepts to survey data, enabling richer knowledge organisation.
Enhancing collaborative writing tools to support open scholarly communication in the social sciences.
Technical management of service databases for families, focusing on data integrity and accessibility.
I regularly apply and develop machine learning models to understand academic mobility, publication metrics (e.g., h-index prediction), and open access publishing behaviour.
Publications & Activities
Ell, T., Maehler, D. B., Repke, L., & Momeni, F. (2025). Loneliness: A Scoping Review of Reviews From 2001 to 2023. The Journal of Psychology, 1–29.
Momeni, F., Saldanha Bach J., Mathiak, B., & Mutschke, P. (2025, accepted). Linking Data Citation to Repository Visibility: An Empirical Study. ISSI Conference 2025.
Momeni, F., Khan T., Kiesel J., & Ross-Hellauer, T. (2025, accepted). Checklists for Computational Reproducibility in Social Sciences: Insights from Literature and Survey Evaluation. ACM REP Conference 2025.
Momeni, F., Mayr, P., & Dietze, S. (2023). Investigating the contribution of author- and publication-specific features to scholars' h-index prediction. EPJ Data Science, 12(45).
Momeni, F., Dietze, S., Mayr, P., Biesenbender, K., & Peters, I. (2023). Which Factors are Associated with Open Access Publishing? A Springer Nature Case Study. Quantitative Science Studies, 4(2), 353–371.
Momeni, F., Karimi, F., Mayr, P., Peters, I., & Dietze, S. (2022). The many facets of academic mobility and its impact on scholars' career. Journal of Informetrics, 16(2), 101280.
Momeni, F., Mayr, P., Fraser, N., & Peters, I. (2021). What happens when a Journal converts to open access? A bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 126(12), 9811–9827.
Fraser, N., Momeni, F., Mayr, P., & Peters, I. (2020). The relationship between bioRxiv preprints, citations and altmetrics. Quantitative Science Studies, 1(2), 618–638.
Fraser, N., Momeni, F., Mayr, P., & Peters, I. (2019). Altmetrics and open access: Exploring drivers and effects. Workshop altmetrics, Vol. 19.
Karimi, F., Mayr, P., & Momeni, F. (2019). Analyzing the network structure and gender differences among the members of the Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) community. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 20(3), 231–239.
Krämer, T., Momeni, F., & Mayr, P. (2017). Coverage of author identifiers in web of science and scopus. arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01319.
Momeni, F., & Mayr, P. (2016, June). Using co-authorship networks for author name disambiguation. IEEE/ACM Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 261–262.
Momeni, F., & Mayr, P. (2016, September). Evaluating co-authorship networks in author name disambiguation for common names. International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, pp. 386–391.
Mayr, P., Momeni, F., & Lange, C. (2016). Opening Scholarly Communication in Social Sciences: Supporting Open Peer Review with Fidus Writer. arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02927.
Momeni, F., Karimi, B., & Menhaj, M. B. (2011, December). Decentralized adaptive control of large-scale non-affine nonlinear systems using wavelet networks. 2nd International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation, pp. 423–428.
Contact
For inquiries, collaboration opportunities, or more information, feel free to reach out.
I am open to research collaborations, data science consulting, and participation in interdisciplinary projects — particularly those at the intersection of open science, machine learning, and scholarly communication.
Feel free to reach out via email for any professional inquiries.