About Ad Fontes Science™

Kent Anderson brings four decades of editorial and publishing leadership to Ad Fontes Science. His career spans the most influential journals in medicine and science, and he has been a leading voice in scholarly publishing through The Scholarly Kitchen, a widely-read blog covering the intersection of science, technology, and publishing. His experience navigating publishing ecosystems from the inside — and witnessing firsthand how they can be gamed — is foundational to the SIRC™ methodology. He is co-author of How the Internet Disrupted Science (Globe Pequot, August 2026), which traces how that diagnosis of the scientific information market led directly to the creation of the SIRC™.

Joy Moore has spent her career at the intersection of science publishing and technology — from the editorial floors of Nature Publishing Group and Blackwell to the technology infrastructure of Silverchair and the startup environment of SEED Media Group. Her deep understanding of how scientific information is produced, distributed, and consumed gives Ad Fontes Science a uniquely practical perspective on what meaningful quality signals look like in practice. She is co-author of How the Internet Disrupted Science (Globe Pequot, August 2026), a rigorous investigation into how the scientific information market was disrupted — and what a tangible solution looks like.

Vanessa Otero founded Ad Fontes Media in 2018 and created the Media Bias Chart®, which has become one of the most widely used and debated tools for navigating the news landscape. The Chart is used in schools, universities, newsrooms, and corporate settings worldwide, and has been the basis for dozens of peer-reviewed academic studies. Vanessa brings the same framework — rigorous, transparent, visual, two-dimensional content analysis — to scientific literature through Ad Fontes Science™.