Counting publications and products as ASCEND products

It is required by NSF that we track and annually report all publications and other products* that can be attributed in part or in total to ASCEND and include ASCEND in publication acknowledgments. This document is intended to provide guidance in decisions about whether to attribute a particular product to ASCEND. In making such decisions, it’s useful to ask, “Would this work have happened in the absence of ASCEND?” If the answer is “no”, the product should likely “count” as an ASCEND product. Following are more specific guidelines. If any of the following are true, the publication or other product should acknowledge ASCEND.

  • ASCEND funded all or part of research or educational activity.

  • Data collected with ASCEND resources were used in research or educational products (even if published by a group including no ASCEND personnel).

  • Data collated or synthesized with ASCEND resources were used in the research or educational product.

  • Research or educational activity was facilitated by ASCEND initiatives (e.g., research was done ASCEND experiment or within the ASCEND  network).

  • Ideas resulted from ASCEND meetings or synthesis activities

(e.g., ideas were generated during ASCEND discussions  or related proposal or paper preparation; workshop/meeting activities; workshop/meeting activities at a level that included ASCEND data, ideas, or personnel; models or theory motivated by work in ASCEND).

All ASCEND personnel should develop good habits of sharing publications and other products by sending citations and DOIs to Sandra Durán (and Jeannine Cavender-Bares)  or in this google sheet  upon acceptance, and letting them know of associated press releases or social media activities. Forwarding the acceptance email for a journal publication from the editor is sufficient. These will also be selectively included in the spectralbiology.org website.

*These are the categories of products reported to NSF:

Publications (Books, Book Chapters, Journal or Juried Conference Paper, Conference Papers and Presentations, Other Publications, Thesis/Dissertations); Technologies or Techniques (Inventions, Licenses, Patent Applications, Websites or Other Internet Sites, Databases, Physical collections, Audio or video products, Software or NetWare, Models, Educational aids or curricula, Instruments or equipment); Data & Research Material (e.g., cell lines, DNA probes, animal models, Evaluation Instruments, Survey Instruments, and Other).

Acknowledging ASCEND in publications

All ASCEND publications must include an acknowledgment of ASCEND NSF DBI: 2021898. The following text serves as a guideline, and notably mentions both ASCEND and NSF. “This work was made possible [in part] by the ASCEND Biology Integration Institute, through its grant from the National Science Foundation (DBI: 2021898).”