Leonelli Sabina, Ankeny Rachel A
Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology & Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences (Egenis), University of Exeter, Byrne House, St Germans Road, EX4 4PJ Exeter, UK;
School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Australia,
Bioscience. 2015 Jul 1;65(7):701-708. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biv061.
How effectively communities of scientists come together and co-operate is crucial both to the quality of research outputs and to the extent to which such outputs integrate insights, data and methods from a variety of fields, laboratories and locations around the globe. This essay focuses on the ensemble of material and social conditions that makes it possible for a short-term collaboration, set up to accomplish a specific task, to give rise to relatively stable communities of researchers. We refer to these distinctive features as , and investigate their development and implementation across three examples of collaborative research in the life sciences. We conclude that whether a particular project ends up fostering the emergence of a resilient research community is partly determined by the degree of attention and care devoted by researchers to material and social elements beyond the specific research questions under consideration.
科学家群体聚集与合作的效率，对于研究成果的质量以及这些成果整合来自全球不同领域、实验室和地点的见解、数据和方法的程度而言都至关重要。本文聚焦于一系列物质和社会条件，这些条件使得为完成特定任务而设立的短期合作能够催生相对稳定的研究人员群体。我们将这些独特特征称为 ，并通过生命科学领域的三个合作研究实例来探究它们的发展与实施情况。我们得出的结论是，一个特定项目最终能否培育出一个有韧性的研究群体，部分取决于研究人员对特定研究问题之外的物质和社会因素的关注与重视程度。
