Assessing the value of team science: a study comparing center- and investigator-initiated grants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large cross-disciplinary scientific teams are becoming increasingly prominent in the conduct of research.

Purpose

This paper reports on a quasi-experimental longitudinal study conducted to compare bibliometric indicators of scientific collaboration, productivity, and impact of center-based transdisciplinary team science initiatives and traditional investigator-initiated grants in the same field.

Methods

All grants began between 1994 and 2004 and up to 10 years of publication data were collected for each grant. Publication information was compiled and analyzed during the spring and summer of 2010.

Results

Following an initial lag period, the transdisciplinary research center grants had higher overall publication rates than the investigator-initiated R

SUBMITTER: Hall KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3586819 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature