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Retrospection and Direction: A Q&A with Peter Walter

Posted January 29, 2018 by Sheryl P. Denker in Advocacy, Assessment, Awards, Thought Leaders

0000-0001-7318-5892“In our panel it is the stated and adhered to policy that we will not consider where a paper is published. Rather, in our evaluations we assess its real impact in a field. Change of

Transformational Work Over a Career: Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for PLOS Authors

Posted January 14, 2018 by Sheryl P. Denker in Assessment, Awards, In the News, Innovation, Thought Leaders

0000-0001-7318-5892How do you measure lifetime achievement? It’s not by assessing individual works but by consideration and evaluation of consistent contributions to a discipline over time. Contributions may be independently substantial, but in science, a researcher’s