Janaynne Carvalho do Amaral

Peer review training; science communication, public engagement, and outreach; education for librarianship, international education, and educational partnerships.

• Facilitating Learning Excellence Award (Fall 2025, Course: Doctoral ProSeminar), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• ALISE Emerging Scholars, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Cohort 2025
• ASAPbio Fellows program. Cohort 2024. https://asapbio.org/2024-asapbio-fellows
• PreReview Champions Program. Cohort 2024. https://content.prereview.org/announcing-our-2024-prereview-champions/
• List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent for Spring 2023, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (Course: IS 511 Scholarly Communications).
• NISO Plus Scholarship Program, National Information Standards Organization (NISO), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Fellowship Program: Society for Scholarly Publishing, New Jersey, USA, 2022.
• Sponsored scholar of the Ninth International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication, September 8-10, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois, USA, organized by JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), the BMJ (British Medical Journal), and METRICS at Stanford University, 2022.

With a background as an art director and social anthropologist as well as a proofreader and copy editor for scientific publications, Carvalho do Amaral has explored diverse types of publications, ranging from scholarly journals to books and alternative and creative formats of culture and science publications. Her teaching and research include scholarly communication and peer review; science communication, public engagement, and outreach; librarianship; and international education. She facilitates the partnership between the iSchool and the Illinois International Global Education and Training to develop data science and peer review training initiatives for international students and scholars.

Amaral JC, Sarich, N, Hensley, MK, Machado, MJC. (2025). Librarians at the center of peer review training: Increasing collaboration among scholarly communication stakeholders. Learned Publishing, 38 (2). https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1657

Colla, E, Amaral, JC, Hachani, S, Quinn, A, Catterall, J, Xu, S, Fernandez, P, Jiao, C, Andreu, FC, Stuit, M. (2024). Special issue: open access: diverse experiences and expectations. Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18462

Hunt, A, Amaral, JC. (2024). Elements of scientific publication. Council of Science Editors, Style Manual Task Force. CSE manual: scientific style and format for authors, editors, and publishers. 9th ed. Council of Science Editors and The University of Chicago Press; Chapter 1.  ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0226683942. https://doi.org/10.7208/cse9

Amaral, JC. et al. (2024). Journal style and format. Council of Science Editors, Style Manual Task Force. CSE manual: scientific style and format for authors, editors, and publishers. 9th ed. Council of Science Editors and The University of Chicago Press; Chapter 27. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0226683942. https://doi.org/10.7208/cse9

PREreview, Foster, A, Hindle, S, Murphy, K, Saderi, D, Amaral, JC, Mendonça, A, Fairhurst, V., & Park, G. (2025). Pareceristas Abertos: Guia do Parecerista. Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/15497111

Colangelo E, Schultz J, Amaral JC. (2025). Judith Barnsby: on her career, open access, artificial intelligence, and public trust in science. Science Editor, 48. https://doi.org/10.36591/SE-4801-10

Amaral JC, Schultz J. (2022). Frontiers for Young Minds: communicating passion and excitement about science. Science Editor, 45(3) https://doi.org/10.36591/SE-D-4504-05

Amaral JC, Schultz J. (2021). Sophie Staniszewska and Richard Stephens: Democratizing science through public involvement. Science Editor, 44(4):110-115. https://doi.org/10.36591/SE-D-4404-111

Amaral JC, Charles, D. (2026). Using digital tools to promote effective knowledge exchange among international audiences. iConference 2026, 29 March- 02 April, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. (Workshop)

Saderi, D, Amaral JC. (2025). Open reviewers: how to identify and interrupt bias in peer review. 2025 NDiSTEM Conference, October 30-November 1, Columbus, Ohio, USA. (Workshop)

 Hensley, MK, Amaral JC. (2025). Welcoming undergraduate students into the scholarly community through the peer review process. 2nd Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications, Washington, D.C.

Amaral JC. (2025). The next gen scholarly publishing tech stack: 2025 roundtable. Pre-Conference webinar for the 2nd Student Journal Symposium for Literary and Research Publications, College of Professional Studies, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Amaral JC. (2024). Engaging with preprints. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Main Library, Champaign, Illinois, United States.

Amaral JC. (2024). (Non)academic voices in peer review and science communication. Council of Science Editors, United States.

Amaral JC. (2023). Public Participation in peer review: models, reviewers, and challenges. New Directions in scholarly publishing, navigating the shifting sands: managing disruptions in scholarly communications, Washington DC, United States. (Session: Rethinking peer review: Will new models bring new voices to the scholarly dialogue?) 

Amaral JC. (2023). Public commenting on manuscripts submitted for publication: When it started, why, pros and cons. Metascience Conference 2023, Washington, DC, United States. 

Amaral JC. (2022).  Patients in peer review: the Research Involvement and Engagement journal initiative. AIMOS 2022: fourth annual conference of the Association for Interdisciplinary Metaresearch & Open Science, University of Melbourne, Australia. (Lightning talk).