Elea Giménez Toledo is director of the Center for Human and Social Sciences Center at CSIC (since 2020) and a tenured scientist at the Institute of Philosophy at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), a position she has held since 2006. She is head of ILIA: Research Team on Scholarly Book, principal Investigator of the project Scholarly Publishers Indicators (SPI) and coordinator of ES CIENCIA Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform, an institutional project by CSIC on Spanish as a language of scientific communication. She has a PhD in Library and Information Science (University Carlos III de Madrid), and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of OPERAS. She has coordinated the reports on Spanish Academic Book Publishing developed for Federation of Spanish Publishers (FGEE) and the Association of Spanish University Presses (UNE).

Her research is focused on academic book publishing and its connection with research evaluation of the humanities and social sciences. Fundamental aspects of her research include the relevance of the book industry in each country, the intrinsic value of the publication of results in monographs, quality in publishing, the manuscript selection processes, bibliodiversity, multilingualism in scholarly communication, digital transformation and open access transition for small and medium size publishers.

She is now conducting the Cartography of the Iberoamerican academic publishing, a research project with Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and Caribbean (CERLALC) and Association of Latin American and Caribbean university presses (EULAC). She is also leading, together with Gunnar Sivertsen (NIFU, Norway), the development of Academic Book Publishers (ABP): a global and multilingual register, an initiative backed by ENRESSH COST action.

View her publications at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jaqfQqEAAAAJ and follow her work at @ILIA_CSIC and @ESCiencia_CSIC.