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SUMMARY:The Increasing Dominance of Teams in the Production of Knowledge by Dr. Stefan Wuchty
DESCRIPTION:An acclaimed tradition in the history and sociology of science emphasizes the role of the individual genius in scientific discovery. Recent studies\, however\, have explored an apparent shift in science from this individual-based model of scientific advance to a teamwork model. Examining all papers and patents published over many decades in all domains of science and patenting\, I present evidence for the presence of universal patterns\, suggesting that the process of scientific knowledge creation has fundamentally changed. The results indicate three facts that demonstrate with remarkable generality that teams dominate solo authors in the production of scientific knowledge. First\, research is increasingly done in teams across virtually all scientific fields of inquiry. Second\, teams produce more highly cited research on average than individuals do and this team advantage is increasing annually.  Third\, teams now produce the exceptionally high impact research\, a distinction that was once the domain of solo authors. 
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