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ArticleRoyal Society open science2023

How to build up big team science: a practical guide for large-scale collaborations.

Heidi A Baumgartner, Nicolás Alessandroni, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Michael C Frank, J Kiley Hamlin, Melanie Soderstrom, Jan G Voelkel, Robb Willer, Francis Yuen, Nicholas A Coles

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Article in Royal Society open science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Heidi A BaumgartnerCenter for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5032-5995
Nicolás AlessandroniDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6595-0969
Krista Byers-HeinleinDepartment of Psychology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7040-2510
Michael C FrankDepartment of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7551-4378
J Kiley HamlinDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6173-9878
Melanie SoderstromDepartment of Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3212-5775
Jan G VoelkelDepartment of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4275-9798
Robb WillerDepartment of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3404-6472
Francis YuenDepartment of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7570-123X
Nicholas A ColesCenter for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8583-5610

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material resources in pursuit of a common goal. Despite this burgeoning interest, there exists little guidance on how to create, manage and participate in these collaborations. In this paper, we integrate insights from a multi-disciplinary set of BTS initiatives to provide a how-to guide for BTS. We first discuss initial considerations for launching a BTS project, such as building the team, identifying leadership, governance, tools and open science approaches. We then turn to issues related to running and completing a BTS project, such as study design, ethical approvals and issues related to data collection, management and analysis. Finally, we address topics that present special challenges for BTS, including authorship decisions, collaborative writing and team decision-making.

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big team sciencecollaborationmeta-sciencescience of team science

Identifiers

PMID37293356
PMCPMC10245199

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