Peter Shepherd

Dr Peter T Shepherd
In a career spanning over three decades, Peter Shepherd has become intimately acquainted with most aspects of STM journal, book and database publishing, having worked as a publisher with Wiley, Pergamon, Elsevier and Harcourt. Since 2002 Dr Shepherd has been Director of COUNTER, the not-for-profit international organization whose mission is to improve the quality and reliability of online usage statistics. Since 2011 COUNTER has also had overall responsibility of the development and management of the Usage Factor project.

Peter Shepherd received a PhD in chemistry in 1978 from St Andrews University and joined the publishing industry in 1980, following a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara.