Mike Lauer
April 5, 2018
Almost 11 years ago, Stefan Duchy, Benjamin Jones, and Brian
Uzzi (all of Northwestern University) published an article in Science on "The Increasing Dominance of Team in Production of Knowledge." They analyzed nearly 20 million papers published over 5 decades and 2.1 million
patents and found that across all fields the number of authors per paper (or
patent) steadily increased, that teams were coming to dominate individual
efforts, and that teams produced more highly cited research.
In a Science review paper published a few weeks ago, Santo Fortunato and colleagues offered
an overview of the "Science of Science." One of their
key messages was that “Research is shifting to teams, so engaging in
collaboration is beneficial.”
