Abstract
BackgroundInterdisciplinary collaborations bring lots of benefits to researchers in multiple areas, including precision medicine.ObjectiveThis viewpoint aims at studying how cross-institution team science would affect the development of precision medicine.MethodsPublications of organizations on the eHealth Catalogue of Activities were collected in 2015 and 2017. The significance of the correlation between coleadership and coauthorship among different organizations was calculated using the Pearson chi-square test of independence. Other nonparametric tests examined whether organizations with coleaders publish more and better papers than organizations without coleaders.ResultsA total of 374 publications from 69 organizations were analyzed in 2015, and 7064 papers from 87 organizations were analyzed in 2017. Organizations with coleadership published more papers (P<.001, 2015 and 2017), which received higher citations (Z=–13.547, P<.001, 2017), compared to those without coleadership. Organizations with coleaders tended to publish papers together (P<.001, 2015 and 2017).ConclusionsOur findings suggest that organizations in the field of precision medicine could greatly benefit from institutional-level team science. As a result, stronger collaboration is recommended.
Highlights
The concept of a meta-topical brainforest is proposed, to reflect a link between collaborative research and complex ecosystems
Our findings suggest that organizations in the field of precision medicine could greatly benefit from institutional-level team science
We studied how precision medicine can be influenced by institutional-level team science by analyzing coleadership and coauthorship across health organizations
Summary
The concept of a meta-topical brainforest is proposed, to reflect a link between collaborative research and complex ecosystems. According to the National Institutes of Health, team science is “a collaborative and often cross-disciplinary approach to scientific inquiry that draws researchers who otherwise work independently or as coinvestigators on smaller-scale projects into collaborative centers and groups” [1]. In 2007, Wuchty et al [6] examined 19.9 million research articles in the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science database and 2.1 million patent records on multiple topics. They concluded that a team-authored paper has increased probability of being highly cited. Interdisciplinary collaborations bring lots of benefits to researchers in multiple areas, including precision medicine
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