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James B. Snow, Jr, MD

Arch Otolaryngol. 1982;108(10):644-646.

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Collaborative research can be defined as investigation employing the knowledge and skills of more than one scientist. Collaborative research is all research that is not an investigation by a single scientist working conceptually alone. It is readily apparent that the vast majority of modern research is collaborative by this definition.

RATIONALE

The fact that most research is collaborative relates to the problems and approaches of current scientific inquiry. It is difficult to conceive of a scientific question that someone has not tried to solve by an individual effort. Much of the ground that can be turned with individual effort has already been plowed and even harrowed. Much valuable, new information can be obtained from individual research, but much of the kind of information that can be obtained from that type of effort has been obtained with the techniques that are currently available. New progress in individual research is largely dependent . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Human Communication, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication June 7, 1982.

Read in part before the First National Conference on Research Goals and Methods in Otolaryngology, Bethesda, Md, April 17, 1982.

Reprint requests to the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Human Communication, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (Dr Snow).

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