OAE PUBLISHING - Key Persons


Alisa Wang


Andrew A. Gumbs

Job Titles:
  • Editor - in - Chief

Delphine Wong

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Publishing Ethics Quality Control
Delphine Wong, the Manager of Publishing Ethics Quality Control, joined OAE in April 2017. Her team is mainly responsible for the training of peer review operating procedures for publishing Editors of OAE, ethics inspections, review and handling of academic misconducts during the publishing process.

Haidi Ding

Job Titles:
  • Publishing Manager
Haidi Ding, the Journal Manager, joined OAE in April 2017. She has accumulated rich experience in expert resource integration, topic selection and academic promotion in her daily work. She has cooperated with well-known experts in the field of liver cancer research to establish some Special Issues and the Special Issue articles have been well received by readers. At present, she coordinately manages some new OAE journals, including Cancer Drug Resistance, Vessel Plus, Microbiome Research Reports, Journal of Environmental Exposure Assessment, Water Emerging Contaminants & Nanoplastics, Carbon Footprints.

Kenny Wu

Job Titles:
  • Production Manager
Kenny Wu, the Production Manager. He joined OAE in October 2017, and is responsible for leading the production team to complete the copy editing, format conversion, proofreading, and output of XML and PDF versions of OAE journals. He has been engaged in this industry for more than five years and has processed over 4000 papers. Before joining OAE, he worked in Baishideng Publishing Group for about two years. Besides, he once participated in professional photography training. His professional aesthetic perspective and rich experience in production management have enabled him to publish many articles and e-books with exquisite formatting.

Kevin Fan - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
Kevin Fan, the CEO of OAE Publishing Inc., graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington and has been engaged in business management and operation for 15 years. He has a global strategic vision and adheres to the concept of "Promoting organizational changes through scientific management, insisting on innovation, and pursuing excellence". Having been engaged in the management and operation of OAE for over seven years, he clarified the mission, vision, and values of OAE and built a learning company. He has been leading all OAE staff to learn from first-class publishing companies and specialists continuously, integrate professional publishing talents, build scientific and standardized publishing concepts, optimize publishing processes and methods, continuously upgrade publishing platform technology, improve the academic quality of OAE publications, and publish more publications with academic value.

Koyoka Gao

Job Titles:
  • IT Manager
Koyoka Gao, the IT Manager. He joined OAE in October 2015, and is responsible for the management of the IT team at OAE and the iterative updating and maintenance of OAE's online publishing platform. With excellent website construction capability and rich experience in project management, he leads his team to continuously optimize and transform the website of OAE, actively responds to customer requirements, and constantly improves user experience.

Lijun Jin

Lijun Jin, the Publisher, joined OAE in August 2016. Jin is mainly responsible for supporting the Editors of all OAE's journals in publishing skills. She also manages the teams of AND, CS, CDR, CES, DPR, IR, JCA, JCMT, ROODJ, SS, etc. Having engaged in publishing work in OAE for nearly five years, Jin has a strong passion for publishing and an enormous sense of mission. In addition, Jin has rich experience in topic selection and planning for journals, management of journal Editors, and journal development and operation. Jin is popular among scholars and has led the journal teams in cooperating with many presidents of research societies, academicians, and scholars with highly cited articles in jointly publishing some high-quality Special Issues, organized and held multiple Editorial Board meetings, and participated in some industry conferences for promotion and publicity activities. Fond of running, climbing mountains, and constantly challenging herself, she takes "conquering the peak" as her motto.

Lilian Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor
  • Managing Editor of Plastic and Aesthetic
Lilian Zhang, Managing Editor of Plastic and Aesthetic Research and Artificial Intelligence Surgery, joined OAE in July 2020. She assists the Editor-in-Chief, editorial committee team, and Guest Editors in organizing and promoting the journals' scholarly activities. In her view, scholars and academic journals are a community of destiny, and Editors and scholars should always maintain a high level of enthusiasm and a strong sense of responsibility for academic publishing. Siqing Hu, the Journal Manager, joined OAE in March 2022. She has built good collaborative relationships with many highly qualified experts amassed a wealth of resources, including highly qualified experts, extensiveand has rich experience in content mining, and expertise in organizing high-quality academic conferences. She has successfully hosted academic conferences in collaboration with renowned experts in the fields of aging and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as chemical synthesis, which has been well-received by readers and garnered an audience of over 300,000 attendees. Currently, she is responsible for coordinating the management in charge of several five OAE journals, including Ageing and Neurodegenerative Diseases, Chemical Synthesis, Disaster Prevention and Resilience, Mini-invasive Surgery, and Minerals and Mineral Materials.

Margie Ma

Job Titles:
  • Publishing Director
Margie Ma, the Publishing Director, joined OAE in January 2019. She is responsible for the whole publishing process training for Editors, standardized management, and external cooperation. Ma graduated from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences with a master's degree in physical geography. Her earnest working style and six years of rich working experience in academic publishing have endowed her with extraordinary capability in development planning for publishing, publishing process optimization, and journal team management. During the four years of working at MDPI, she served as the Managing Editor for a newly-launched journal Veterinary Science which was successively indexed in PubMed and Scopus under her charge within two years. Later, the journal was included in Web of Science in 2020. During this period, she also engaged in the editing work for International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IF 2.489 (2019)) and was responsible for organizing and implementing academic network conferences and other publishing tasks.

Prof. Carlos A. Mestres

Job Titles:
  • Executive Chief Editor

Victoria Lee

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor of the Journal Hepatoma Research
Victoria Lee, the Managing Editor of the journal Hepatoma Research. She is responsible for the whole journal's management, collaborates with key Editorial Board members (Editor-in-Chief, Executive Chief Editor, Associate Editors, Guest Editors, social media advisors, etc.) to set the development goal and direction each year. Furthermore, she manages a highly effective team to provide better publishing services for readers and authors. She is good at publishing activities such as manuscript processing, Special Issue content plan, webinar organization, good communication skills with experts, etc. She is rigorous in quality control of papers and full of passion for publishing.

Wen Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor of Complex Engineering Systems, Intelligence & Robotics
Wen Zhang, Managing Editor of Complex Engineering Systems, Intelligence & Robotics and The Journal of Cardiovascular Aging. She is responsible for the whole journal's management and collaborates with Editorial Board members to set the developmental goal and direction each year. She is good at publishing activities such as manuscript processing, Special Issue content planning, journal promotion, and maintaining good communication with experts and scholars. She is rigorous in the quality control of publications and has a passion for academic publishing.

Whitney Xu

Job Titles:
  • Manager
Whitney Xu, the Manager of five academic journals, responsible for overseeing their operations and editorial management. With extensive experience in the publishing industry, she is committed to upholding the highest standards of quality and integrity. She works closely with Editorial Boards to select and publish impactful articles, and she manage the day-to-day operations of the journals, including budgeting and staffing. Her goal is to position each journal as a leader in its field and foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Yuan Ding

Job Titles:
  • Managing Editor of Microstructures and Rare
Yuan Ding, Managing Editor of Microstructures and Rare Disease and Orphan Drugs Journal, joined OAE in May 2020. She is responsible for assisting the Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board Team, and Guest Editors to jointly complete the organization of academic activities and the journal promotion. She thinks that scholars and academic journals belong to the same community of academic destiny, and Managing Editors need to maintain enthusiasm and a sense of responsibility for academic publishing work at all times.