blog post about the new DFG rules to cite software repos

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https://www.dfg.de/en/research_funding/announcements_proposals/2022/info_wissenschaft_22_61/index.html

may also provide details of special circumstances or additional services to scholarship such as committee activities or the establishment of research infrastructures.

In addition to a maximum of ten publications in the more common publication formats, the CV can therefore now list up to ten further sets of research outcomes and findings that have been publicised in a variety of other ways, including articles on preprint servers, data sets or software packages, for example.

No information on quantitative metrics such as impact factors and h-indices is required in the CV or the proposal, and such information is not to be considered in the review.