Request for Information on Measuring and Rewarding Scientific Impact
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
About this opportunity
Biomedical research has increasingly become a collaborative and interdisciplinary enterprise that relies on transparent reporting, rigorous replication, careful interpretation of methods and analyses, and the iterative refinement of scientific knowledge. In recognition of this evolution, NIH seeks public input on the defining features of modern 21st-century science that should be measured, recognized, and incentivized. NIH recently launched a new agency-wide Replication and Reproducibility Initiative to incentivize and institutionalize replication and reproducibility efforts across the biomedical research enterprise. As part of this Initiative and NIH's Plan to Drive Gold Standard Science, NIH is supporting the research community in identifying critical research and infrastructure needs ne...