[1] The field encompasses conceptual and methodological strategies that focus on understanding how scientific teams can be organized to work more effectively.
Team science initiatives aim to promote collaborative and often cross-disciplinary (which includes multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary) approaches to answering research questions about particular phenomena.
[2][3][4] Since the 1990s, there has been a growing interest and investment in large-scale, team-based research initiatives to address problems that require cross-disciplinary collaboration.
[11] In 2023, Patrick Forscher and colleagues published a review to detail the benefits of big team science, showing that innovations improve the collection of larger samples and allow both reproducibility and generalizability to continue.
[12][13] However, there is a worry that team science could dominate funding opportunities and divert focus from practical to more theoretical areas, as well as generate large-scale failed endeavors.