Collaborative Production in Science: An Empirical Analysis of Coauthorships in Economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Katharine A. Anderson ◽  
Seth Richards-Shubik
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Network Formation ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Communication And Coordination

Abstract This paper studies productivity and preferences in scientific research. Collaboration is increasingly important for innovation in science, and other domains, but we have limited understanding of the factors researchers use to choose their collaborators and the projects they work on. Here, we use a model of strategic network formation and a recently developed econometric method to examine this question in the context of economics researchers. We learn that research teams with more collaborators tend to produce papers with higher impact, without increasing individual costs of communication and coordination. This suggests the trend toward larger research teams in economics will continue.

scholarly journals The Structure of Distributed Scientific Research Teams Affects Collaboration and Research Output

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Gehlert ◽  
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Jung Ae Lee ◽  
Jeff Gill ◽  
Graham Colditz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Research Output ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Research Teams

Clash of Cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-114
Author(s):  
Jennifer Loy ◽  
Samuel Canning
Keyword(s):  
Additive Manufacturing ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Industrial Design ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Research Facility ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Additive Manufacturing Technology ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Fashion Designers

In 2012, a Belgian company called Materialise hosted a fashion show featuring designs from a worldwide millinery competition. The featured pieces were paraded down a catwalk by professional models, and an overall winner chosen. What made this fashion show unusual was that the attendees were predominantly clinical and industrial engineers, and the host was a specialist engineering and software development company that emerged in 1990 from a research facility based at Leuven University. Engineers and product designers rather than fashion designers created the millinery and the works were all realized through additive manufacturing technology. This chapter provides an example of how fashion design has become a creative stimulus for the development of the technology. It illustrates how disruptive creativity has the potential to advance scientific research, with the two worlds of engineering and fashion coming together through a collaboration with industrial design. The chapter highlights the challenges and possible implications for preparing trans-disciplinary research teams.

scholarly journals Tree Demography Plots

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Peter Ashton
Keyword(s):  
Tropical Forest ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Tropical Trees ◽  
Ecological Data ◽  
Research Teams ◽  
Large Tree ◽  
Tree Demography ◽  
Forest Science ◽  
Periodic Examination

The pantropical network of large tree demography plots coordinated by the Smithsonian’s Center for Tropical Forest Science has now gone global, as part of the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories. Some four million tropical trees, representing about 10,000 species, are now tagged, provisionally identified and periodically recensused. Some 3,000 species are captured in the six plots within Malesia. These include species rarely collected and many that are now endangered. Easy location of trees for periodic examination for fertile material and detailed ecological data, together with seasoned in-country research teams, provide unique opportunities for research collaboration.

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