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ALT The award for Best Publication goes to Eric Schares for his publication “Impact of the 2022 OSTP memo: A bibliometric analysis of US federally funded publications, 2017– 2021”. The nominated papers in this category were all notable contenders, but what stood out the most about this winner was that members of the committee felt that the publication provided invaluable insights into the implications of the Nelson Memo. The author took the very complex challenge of understanding the scope of federally funded research articles and made it clearer and more comprehensible for us to better gauge the potential impact of this new policy framework. This was done by investigating the characteristics of these research publications over a five-year period, from 2017-2021. Committee members were impressed with the detailed methodology that the author used to quantify the volume of relevant publications within this period, and to highlight the federal funding agencies, institutions, journals and publ













