Mohammad Hossein Shadmanfar is a researcher at the Faculty of Management, Imam Hossein University, Tehran, Iran. His academic interests lie at the intersection of public policy, governance, qualitative methodology, and evidence-informed decision-making. He is particularly drawn to interpretive research paradigms, mental models, and inquiry approaches that emphasize meaning-making processes within organizational and policy contexts.
His methodological perspective is shaped by empirically grounded inductive reasoning, engagement with partial or fragmented data, and the search for coherent patterns across multiple sources of evidence. He primarily conducts applied research and works extensively with qualitative methods, including case study design, thematic analysis, interpretive explanation, and other context-sensitive approaches.
In recent years, his research has centered on evidence-based policymaking, with specific attention to the institutional dynamics of the Iranian Parliament. Through in-depth case studies, he examines how evidence, expertise, and knowledge-support systems influence legislative decision-making, and how these systems can be strengthened to promote more analytically informed policymaking.
He has authored several academic works in the fields of governance, public policy, knowledge management, and qualitative inquiry, and actively collaborates on research and policy initiatives that require interpretive, context-aware, and evidence-informed perspectives.

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Alireza Noruzi is a university professor who received his Ph.D. from Aix-Marseille Université in France. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information (EBSI), Université de Montréal, Canada. His research interests include information representation and retrieval, artificial intelligence, knowledge organization (metadata, indexing), informology, scientometrics, and altmetrics. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Informology (www.informology.org).

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