Justification for Selected Instructions

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Justification for Selected Instructions

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Change Request Justification for Select Instructions in 0925-0001



  1. Biosketch Format and Instructions



Form Section Being Modified

Background and Description of Change

  1. Personal Statement

  2. Positions and Honors

  3. Contributions to Science

  4. Research Support

  • Consolidation of separate Career and Fellowship biosketch instructions into the General biosketch instructions.

  • Extensive changes for clarity- Using shorter sentences, bullets and shorter paragraphs

  • Integrating instructions for institutional research training, institutional career development, or research education grant applications into the main biosketch instructions

  • Clarifying that the URL for a publication list is optional (as always intended, and conveyed in the FAQ)

  • Clarifications to ensure junior applicants can better describe their productivity

    • Clarifying that research products can include conference proceedings such as meeting abstracts, posters or other presentations

    • Clarifying that people can mention in-progress products (e.g. manuscripts under review) in the narrative for Section C, but not cite them as one of their citations

    • These citations do not have to be authored by you, but do have to be relevant to your contribution.

  • Policy/instruction tweaks:

    • Minimize overstuffing

      • Disallowing inclusion of graphics, figures and tables (also not supported by SciENcv)

      • Adding overstuffing warnings to Sections A and C

    • Requesting people add other names that used to author research products in section A

    • Citation instructions

      • Adding research products as allowable citations to section A to correspond with their allowance in Section C

      • Allowing non-peer reviewed publications to be included to correspond with the allowance of other non-peer reviewed research products (from ‘reference up to four peer-reviewed publications or other non-publication research products’ to ‘cite up to four publications or research products’)

    • Deleting the requirement that the past 3 years of research support are listed in order of relevance. This requirement adds complexity for the applicant and systems, while not adding much benefit to the reviewer.

    • If applicant provides a URL to their publications, it must be on a federal (.gov) website

See Attachment A for revised text.



Form Section Being Modified

Background and Description of Change

  1. Personal Statement

  2. Position and Honors

  3. Contributions to Science

  4. Research Support



  • Consolidation of separate Career and Fellowship biosketch instructions into the General biosketch instructions.

  • Extensive changes for clarity- Using shorter sentences, bullets and shorter paragraphs

  • Integrating instructions for institutional research training, institutional career development, or research education grant applications into the main biosketch instructions

  • Clarifying that the URL for a publication list is optional (as always intended, and conveyed in the FAQ)

  • Clarifications to ensure junior applicants can better describe their productivity

    • Clarifying that research products can include conference proceedings such as meeting abstracts, posters or other presentations

    • Clarifying that people can mention in-progress products (e.g. manuscripts under review) in the narrative for Section C, but not cite them as one of their citations

    • These citations do not have to be authored by you, but do have to be relevant to your contribution.

  • Policy/instruction tweaks:

    • Minimize overstuffing

      • Disallowing inclusion of graphics, figures and tables (also not supported by SciENcv)

      • Adding overstuffing warnings to Sections A and C

    • Requesting people add other names that used to author research products in section A

    • Citation instructions

      • Adding research products as allowable citations to section A to correspond with their allowance in Section C

      • Allowing non-peer reviewed publications to be included to correspond with the allowance of other non-peer reviewed research products (from ‘reference up to four peer-reviewed publications or other non-publication research products’ to ‘cite up to four publications or research products’)

    • Deleting the requirement that the past 3 years of research support are listed in order of relevance. This requirement adds complexity for the applicant and systems, while not adding much benefit to the reviewer.

    • If applicant provides a URL to their publications, it must be on a federal (.gov) website


See Attachment A for revised text.



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