Metrics for Team Science — What’s Your Take?
In a feature on PhysOrg.com titled “Is Team Science Productive? Study Measures the Collaborative Nature of Translational Medicine,” researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine studied how to measure productivity in a collaborative environment. They came to the following conclusion:
“…network analysis, which examines a social structure made up of individuals connected by a common interdependency…could help inform decisions about which institutes, centers, or departments are most likely to facilitate collaboration, and learn how they’re doing it. This will point the way to ideas to increase cross-discipline collaborations such as trans-center grants to facilitate collaborations between departments.”
What are your thoughts? Leave us a comment.
Note: the researchers’ published findings are available in the October 13, 2010, Science Translational Medicine article, “Network Dynamics to Evaluate Performance of an Academic Institution” (requires subscription).
April 11, 2011
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