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A new funding policy by the US National Science Foundation represents a sea-change in how researchers are evaluated, says Heather Piwowar.

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  1. Heather Piwowar is a postdoctoral research associate in informatics at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. She is a co-founder of ImpactStory.,

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