Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams
Abstract Science is increasingly being conducted in large, interdisciplinary teams. As team size increases, challenges can arise during manuscript development, where achieving one team goal (e.g., inclusivity) may be in direct conflict with other goals (e.g., efficiency). Here, we present strategies...
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| author | Samantha K. Oliver C. Emi Fergus Nicholas K. Skaff Tyler Wagner Pang‐Ning Tan Kendra Spence Cheruvelil Patricia A. Soranno |
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| description | Abstract Science is increasingly being conducted in large, interdisciplinary teams. As team size increases, challenges can arise during manuscript development, where achieving one team goal (e.g., inclusivity) may be in direct conflict with other goals (e.g., efficiency). Here, we present strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development that draw from our experiences in an interdisciplinary science team writing collaborative manuscripts for six years. These strategies are rooted in six guiding principles that were important to our team: to create a transparent, inclusive, and accountable research team that promotes and protects team members who have less power to influence decision‐making while fostering creativity and productivity. To help alleviate the conflicts that can arise in collaborative manuscript development, we present the following strategies: understand your team composition, create an authorship policy and discuss authorship early and often, openly announce manuscript ideas, identify and communicate the type of manuscript and lead author management style, and document and describe authorship contributions. These strategies can help reduce the probability of group conflict, uphold individual and team values, achieve fair authorship practices, and increase science productivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-947c8c11d01645eab517433585d164f62022-12-21T23:31:00ZengWileyEcosphere2150-89252018-04-0194n/an/a10.1002/ecs2.2206Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teamsSamantha K. Oliver0C. Emi Fergus1Nicholas K. Skaff2Tyler Wagner3Pang‐Ning Tan4Kendra Spence Cheruvelil5Patricia A. Soranno6Center for Limnology University of Wisconsin‐Madison 680 N Park Street Madison Wisconsin 53706 USAWestern Ecology Division National Research Council Research Associate U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 200 SW 35th Street Corvallis Oregon 97333 USADepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University 480 Wilson Road East Lansing Michigan 48824 USAPennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit U.S. Geological Survey The Pennsylvania State University 402 Forest Resources Building University Park Pennsylvania 16802 USADepartment of Computer Science & Engineering Michigan State University 428 South Shaw Land, Room 3115 East Lansing Michigan 48824 USADepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife & Lyman Briggs College Michigan State University Natural Resources Building 480 Wilson Road, Room 334D East Lansing Michigan 48824 USADepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University 480 Wilson Road East Lansing Michigan 48824 USAAbstract Science is increasingly being conducted in large, interdisciplinary teams. As team size increases, challenges can arise during manuscript development, where achieving one team goal (e.g., inclusivity) may be in direct conflict with other goals (e.g., efficiency). Here, we present strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development that draw from our experiences in an interdisciplinary science team writing collaborative manuscripts for six years. These strategies are rooted in six guiding principles that were important to our team: to create a transparent, inclusive, and accountable research team that promotes and protects team members who have less power to influence decision‐making while fostering creativity and productivity. To help alleviate the conflicts that can arise in collaborative manuscript development, we present the following strategies: understand your team composition, create an authorship policy and discuss authorship early and often, openly announce manuscript ideas, identify and communicate the type of manuscript and lead author management style, and document and describe authorship contributions. These strategies can help reduce the probability of group conflict, uphold individual and team values, achieve fair authorship practices, and increase science productivity.https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2206coauthorshipcollaborationmanuscript developmentteam diversityteam science |
| spellingShingle | Samantha K. Oliver C. Emi Fergus Nicholas K. Skaff Tyler Wagner Pang‐Ning Tan Kendra Spence Cheruvelil Patricia A. Soranno Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams Ecosphere coauthorship collaboration manuscript development team diversity team science |
| title | Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams |
| title_full | Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams |
| title_fullStr | Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams |
| title_short | Strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams |
| title_sort | strategies for effective collaborative manuscript development in interdisciplinary science teams |
| topic | coauthorship collaboration manuscript development team diversity team science |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2206 |
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