Irina Cojocaru is a researcher focused on scholarly communication and knowledge management. Her current areas of interest include metadata for scholarly publishing, open access, persistent identifiers, metadata, open science principles and practices. Irina is a PhD student in Library and information sciences, focusing on evaluating the visibility of the national research outputs.

She was part of the team behind the National Bibliometric Instrument - the biggest OA library of national scientific publications in the Republic of Moldova. As the founder of METADATA, a Crossref sponsoring organization in the Republic of Moldova, she is providing support to almost 40 national publishers with content registration and increasing national research visibility.