Multinational teams and diseconomies of scale in collaborative research

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Hsiehchen, David ^a   Espinoza, Magdalena ^a   Hsieh, Antony ^b  

^a MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; RESEARCH POLICIES; RESEARCH QUALITY; RESEARCH TEAMS; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; TEAM DYNAMICS;

EID: 84982804569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500211     Document Type: Article

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