IN THE ERA OF TEAM SCIENCE, WILL YOU GET FAIR RECOGNITION?

摘要

Team science, was recently defined by an Academy of Medical Sciences' report Improving recognition of team science contributions in biomedical research careers as 'two or more principle investigator-led groups that collaborate to produce a publication or other research output'. Fifty years ago it was not unusual for a research paper to have only one or perhaps two authors. Looking at a copy of Nature published fifty years ago (30th April 1966) I found it contained 21 articles - 8 of which had one author and 7 of which had two. By comparison, any recent issue has fewer articles, they are much longer and they all have multiple authors.