Team Science in Precision Medicine: Study of Coleadership and Coauthorship Across Health Organizations
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- An, Ning; Mattison, John; Chen, Xinyu; Alterovitz, Gil
- Source
- Journal of Medical Internet Research, Vol 23, Iss 6, p e17137 (2021)
- Subject
- Computer applications to medicine. Medical informatics
R858-859.7
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1438-8871
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