Abstract
Interdisciplinary teams are assembled in scientific research and are aimed at solving complex problems. Given their increasing importance, it is not surprising that considerable attention has been focused on processes of collaboration in interdisciplinary teams. Despite such efforts, we know less about the factors affecting the assembly of such teams in the first place. In this paper, we investigate the structure and the success of interdisciplinary scientific research teams. We examine the assembly factors using a sample of 1103 grant proposals submitted to two National Science Foundation interdisciplinary initiatives during a 3-year period, including both awarded and non-awarded proposals. The results indicate that individuals' likelihood of collaboration on a proposal is higher among those with longer tenure, lower institutional tier, lower H-index, and with higher levels of prior co-authorship and citation relationships. However, successful proposals have a little bit different relational patterns: individuals' likelihood of collaboration is higher among those with lower institutional tier, lower H-index, (female) gender, higher levels of prior co-authorship, but with lower levels of prior citation relationships.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 59-70 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Informetrics |
Volume | 8 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2014 |
Funding
This study was supported by the National Science Foundation (Grant Nos. CNS-1010904 , OCI-0904356 , and IIS-0838564 ) and National Institutes of Health (Grant Nos. UL1RR025741 and UL1DE019587 ). We would like to thank Ronald Burt, Roger Leenders, Paul Leonardi, Peter Monge, Willem Pieterson, and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions.
Keywords
- Citation network
- Co-authorship network
- Grant decision-making
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Social network analysis
- Team assembly
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Library and Information Sciences
- Computer Science Applications