Heather Piwowar

DataONE Postdoc, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Vancouver, Canada

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Information Science
data sharing, data reuse, bibliometrics, bioinformatics, natural language processing, amazon mechanical turk, I could go on...

Publications

Journal Article (8)
- Lucinda A. McDade, David R. Maddison, Robert Guralnick et al. (2011) Biology Needs a Modern Assessment System for Professional Productivity, 619-625. In BioScience 61 (8).
  http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1525/bio....
- Heather A Piwowar, Todd J Vision, Michael C Whitlock (2011) Data archiving is a good investment., 285. In Nature 473 (7347).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/473285a
- Alex Garnett, Louise Whiteley, Heather Piwowar et al. (2011) Neuroethics and fMRI: mapping a fledgling relationship., e18537. In PloS one 6 (4).
  http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.po...
- Heather A. Piwowar (2011) Who Shares? Who Doesn't? Factors Associated with Openly Archiving Raw Research Data, e18657. In PLoS ONE 6 (7).
  http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.po...
  
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- Heather A Piwowar, Wendy W Chapman (2010) Public sharing of research datasets: A pilot study of associations, 148-156. In Journal of Informetrics 4 (2).
  http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrie...
  
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- Heather Piwowar, Wendy Chapman (2010) Recall and bias of retrieving gene expression microarray datasets through PubMed identifiers., 7-20. In Journal of biomedical discovery and collaboration.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20...
  
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- Heather A Piwowar, Michael J Becich, Howard Bilofsky et al. (2008) Towards a data sharing culture: recommendations for leadership from academic health centers, e183. In PLoS Medicine 5 (9).
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- H Piwowar, R Day, D Fridsma (2007) Sharing detailed research data is associated with increased citation rate. In PLoS ONE 2 (3).
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pon...
Generic (3)
- Heather A Piwowar, Wendy W Chapman (2008) Envisioning a biomedical data reuse registry, Poster.
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- Heather Piwowar, Wendy Chapman (2008) Prevalence and Patterns of Microarray Data Sharing, Poster..
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- Heather Piwowar, Wendy Chapman (2007) Examining the uses of shared data, Poster.
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Conference Proceedings (4)
- Heather Piwowar, Wendy Chapman (2008) A review of journal policies for sharing research data. In ELPUB.
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- Heather A Piwowar, Wendy W Chapman (2008) Identifying data sharing in biomedical literature, 596-600. In AMIA Symposium.
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- Heather A Piwowar, Wendy W Chapman (2008) Linking database submissions to primary citations with PubMed Central, 4. In BioLINK Workshop at ISMB.
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- Heather A Piwowar (2008) Proposed Foundations for Evaluating Data Sharing and Reuse in the Biomedical Literature, 6. In JCDL 2008.
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Thesis (2)
- Heather Alyce Piwowar (2010) PhD Thesis: Foundational studies for measuring the impact, prevalence, and patterns of publicly sharing biomedical research data.
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- Heather A Campbell (1996) Masters Thesis: Simulation of Quadrature Amplitude Demodulation in a Digital Telemetry System.
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Biographical Information

I am a postdoc research associate, funded by the NSF-funded DataONE cyberinfrastructure project. I’m working with the Dryad team at NESCent, studying data sharing and reuse behaviour. I work remotely from beautiful Vancouver Canada, with a home base in the Biodiversity building in the Department of Zoology at the University of British Columbia.

My research focuses on studying the patterns, prevalence and impact of data sharing and reuse behaviour of “small science” post-publication datasets. My doctoral research focused on biomedical data, particularly gene expression microarray datasets. My postdoc work, in contrast, will concentrate on data in evolution and ecology.