Scientific Collaboration: Towards Conceptual Clarity

Abstract

Scientific collaboration has been defined in several ways, not always precisely. One reason why it cannot be defined clearly is that its composite components are all not easily comprehensible and measurable. One can identify as many components as possible in it. In this chapter, the crucial components of the concept in the literature are explored and presented in two sections. The first section reviews the importance of collaboration in science today. In the second section some of the major parts of scientific collaboration are dealt with, broken into elementary components.