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How Experiments Begin: The Formation of Scientific Collaborations

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Multi-organizational collaborations are increasingly important incontemporary science, but their formative processes have beenneglected by scholars in the social studies of science. Based onan examination of 53 collaborations in physics and relateddisciplines, we have found five types of formations.Collaborations that encountered greater difficulties in formingbecame more formal in their organization and management.

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  1. Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD, 20740, USA

    Joel Genuth

  2. Research Value Mapping Program, GCATT Building, Room 120, 250 14th Street, N.W, Atlanta, Georgia, 30318-0409, USA

    Ivan Chompalov

  3. Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA

    Wesley Shrum

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Genuth, J., Chompalov, I. & Shrum, W. How Experiments Begin: The Formation of Scientific Collaborations. Minerva 38, 311–348 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026573717027

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