In academics, what exactly does collaboration mean? Are there types of collaborations? If yes, what are they?
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Dear @Makinde, some fine resources, like projects, articles and questions are attached, as they bring many resources.
In recent decades doing science has become more and more a collective endeavor requiring cooperation crossing institutional and disciplinary boundaries. Although this phenomenon has been defined and described on macro level, the knowledge about individual motivations, norms and values fostering scholarly communication is limited. Evidence brought by scientometric studies misses out cooperation which is not related to co-authorship. Moreover, since scholarly community varies greatly in co-authorship norms, this kind of information have different meaning varying from field to field ...
Conference Paper How does scholarly cooperation occur and how does it manifes...
https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_much_is_useful_scientific_collaboration
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Dynamics-of-Competition-and-Collaboration-in-Science-Individual-Strategies-Collaboration-Networks-and-Organizational-Hierarchies
https://www.researchgate.net/project/Teamwork-in-the-academia
In a more generalized understanding, collaboration ensues when scholars carefully apportion tasks within the same projects in research and other areas toward the full realization and completion of the work. Each of the collaborators is supposed to contribute significantly by putting to fore their contributions to the project in line with their diverse skills and abilities.
A personal intuitive definition:- collaboration in science is about working together collectively towards better solving a problem, an issue or making a new discovery, for the benefits of all.
Collaboration is defined as “working jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor” . The impact that collaborative behavior has on knowledge creation is a topic of great interest .However, collaboration can take many forms.
Scholarly communication issues around scholarly collaboration networks!
https://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/scholarly-communication-issues-around-scholarly-collaboration-networks?utm_campaign=Library%20Connect%20Newsletter&utm_campaignPK=321385884&utm_term=OP32148&utm_content=703365661&utm_source=32&BID=1444057477&utm_medium=email&SIS_ID=0&dgcid=Newsletters%20%26%20Alerts_email_Library%20Connect%20Newsletter
This is an excellent article, especially for younger researchers looking for collaboration.
A true scholarly collaboration network must offer a platform for researchers to connect, communicate and collaborate. Such a platform should include features such as:
- Follow — to stay up-to-date with others’ work and for others’ to keep up with your work
- Disseminate & discover — to share and seek information, including early feedback on your work and commenting on others’ work
- Profile — to build an accurate, searchable profile to ensure others find you and your work
- News — to receive alerts when new content, personalized to your interests, is available
- Private groups — for research teams and study groups
- Public groups — for discipline-specific news and topic discussions
Collaboration can take several forms among researchers. Specially in the scientific communities, collaboration translates as partnership between two or more faculty members in a project. The collaboration could range from initiating a project with colleagues from the same discipline to
multidisciplinary collaborations including collaboration between academic and government institutions or across geographic locations. The research could be funded or unfunded. In funded research, it is important for all collaborators to understand the agreement between the principal investigator and the plan for publication of the results
Collaboration in Academia = (increased knowledge + increased depth of focus + organizational effectiveness + (eliminating/minimizing/mitigating risk)
Related research question at Academia.
How to establish collaborations with academics who you do not know where you contribute to their research projects?
Fine responses and experiences in academic collaboration.
https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/51289/how-to-establish-collaborations-with-academics-who-you-do-not-know-where-you-con
Collaboration means working together on a particular project. For instance one individual or group may collect the samples and the other individual or group may do the analysis of the sample. A third individual or group may do the statistics analysis and then different individual may take different parts in the development of a manuscript
The term "collaboration" in academic research is usually thought to mean an equal partnership between two academic faculty members who are pursuing mutually interesting and beneficial research. Many collaborations involve researchers of differing stature, funding status, and types of organizations.
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