Alireza Salehi Nejad is a social science and multidisciplinary researcher affiliated with the Faculty of World Studies at University of Tehran. He is also the founder and the former CEO of Titan Inc., a business consulting company headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Alireza is a researcher at the Cyberspace Research Policy Center, and serves on a number of boards, including as the Executive Director of the International Association of Communication in Healthcare, the Ethics Committee of Linguistic Society of America, the Executive Committee of the UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace & Culture, and the Advisory Board of the Foundation for Endangered Languages.

His other activities include serving as Associate Editor for DOAJ, Associate Editor on linguistics for De Gruyter Open, Mendeley Advisor, Figshare Ambassador, Center for Open Science Ambassador, and Business Executive for Arash Plastic Ltd.

Alireza has collaborated with numerous academic publishers - notably Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, Canadian Center of Science & Education, SAGE Publications - and scholarly journals as an editorial board member and reviewer.

He currently edits for 17 international academic journals, and has served on the scientific committee of over 70 conferences thus far. By the same token, Alireza is recognized as the Top Reviewer in Social Sciences by Publons and received the Sentinel of Science Award in 2016, and the Excellent Reviewer Award in 2017.

Alireza also instructs on academic publishing and his expertise in research integrity, research ethics, and the legal aspects of academic publishing is certified by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Elsevier, Springer, MIT Professional Education, Global Health Training Centre, Panel on Research Ethics, Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services, Texas A&M University, US Department of Health and Human Service, UNESCO, and Creative Commons.

Although Alireza’s focus is on social sciences, his research and studies include a broad range of topics in various disciplines. In addition to his contribution to the ‘culture of poverty’ and the ‘cycle of poverty’, Alireza’s research expertise is including sociolinguistics, interpersonal communication, political discourse, international relations, political behavior and medical sociology. His latest work has been published in Science, International Affairs, Political Studies Review, European Political Science, and Spinal Cord.