Collaboration – in person vs online

Van der Wouden and Youn (as reported by Ayshford) studied “17 million scientific publications over the past 45 years find[ing] that researchers who collaborated locally were much more likely to gain new knowledge from their teammates than those who collaborated at a distance. The trend was especially pronounced for researchers in science and engineering, as well as early-career scholars. . . . being together physically—reading body language, mulling a problem at a whiteboard, and teaming up to use specialized laboratory…

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