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Abstract | ||
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The production of scientific knowledge has evolved from a process of inquiry largely based on the activities of individual scientists to one grounded in the collaborative efforts of highly specialized research teams, which have become an increasingly prominent means of knowledge production. This study examines data from 1,415 experiments conducted by scientific teams at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) to examine how the diversity of science teams along several key variables---including institutional diversity, disciplinary diversity, gender, seniority, and the network position---impacts overall team productivity as measured by peer reviewed journal publication. The results from correlation and quantile regression analysis indicate high productivity in teams is associated with high disciplinary diversity and low seniority diversity in team membership; team cohesion also positively related to productivity. Teams with members in central structural positions performed better than other teams. A better understanding of the factors that impact scientific teams, as determined by this and future research, may enable key stakeholders to facilitate more effective and efficient team operations and increase overall scientific productivity. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2010 | 10.1002/meet.14504701304 | ASIST |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
overall scientific productivity,impacts overall team productivity,efficient team operation,low seniority diversity,high productivity,high disciplinary diversity,publication productivity,science team,disciplinary diversity,impact scientific team,institutional diversity,productivity,social network analysis,collaboration | Team effectiveness,Sociology of scientific knowledge,Peer review,Public relations,Social network analysis,Knowledge management,Discipline,Engineering,Quantile regression,Scientific productivity | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
20 | 0.46 | 1 |
Authors | ||
8 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Besiki Stvilia | 1 | 624 | 42.74 |
| Adam Worrall | 2 | 84 | 7.62 |
| Michelle Kazmer | 3 | 212 | 25.25 |
| Charles C. Hinnant | 4 | 87 | 8.64 |
| Gary Burnett | 5 | 81 | 7.52 |
| Katy Schindler | 6 | 33 | 1.26 |
| Kathleen Burnett | 7 | 89 | 8.93 |
| Paul F. Marty | 8 | 91 | 11.51 |