Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations

Reports presenting findings of the AIP Center's study of the organizational structures and functions of large research collaborations. Of broad interest to scholars concerned with the social context of modern science or current archival methodology. Particularly useful to those institutions and individuals with responsibilities for selecting records of archival value to meet the needs of administrators and future historians and other scholars. 

Phase I: High-Energy Physics

Phase II: Space Science & Geophysics

Phase III: Ground-Based Astronomy, Materials Science, Heavy-Ion and Nuclear Physics, Medical Physics, and Computer-Mediated Collaborations

Final Report

Published articles on project findings

  • "The Organization of Scientific Collaboration," by Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov, and Wesley Shrum, Research Policy (2002) 31, 5 : 749-767.
  • "Trust, Conflict, and Performance in Scientific Collaborations," by Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov, and Wesley Shrum, Social Studies of Science (2001) 31, 5 : 681-730.
  • "How Experiments Begin: The Formation of Scientific Collaborations," by Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov, and Wesley Shrum, Minerva 38 (2000): 311-348.
  • "Karl Taylor Compton," by Joel Genuth, in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Each of these articles is available for free from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives upon request.