How to build up big team science: a practical guide for large-scale collaborations

The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material resources in pursuit of a common goal. Despite this burgeoning interest, there exists little guidance on how to create, manage and participate in these collaborations. In this paper, we integrate insights from a multi-disciplinary set of BTS initiatives to provide a how-to guide for BTS. We first discuss initial considerations for launching a BTS project, such as building the team, identifying leadership, governance, tools and open science approaches. We then turn to issues related to running and completing a BTS project, such as study design, ethical approvals and issues related to data collection, management and analysis. Finally, we address topics that present special challenges for BTS, including authorship decisions, collaborative writing and team decision-making.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Royal Society Open Science

• Publication date

  2023-06-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rsos.230235PMID 37293356PMCID 10245199
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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