From an empirical point of view, it simply means the number of times two researchers have collaborated together in a common research project.
Statistical fatigue tests in the very high cycle regime were carried out for the high carbon chromium bearing steel (JIS: SUJ2) in rotating bending as a common research project.
In August 2007, Petrobras and IFP have initiated a common research project on Carbon Capture Storage to determine the feasibility of CO2 injection and underground storage in an oil field located in Recôncavo Basin, a mature basin of northeastern Brazil.
The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of what has come to be known as Big Science: the organization of large numbers of scientists bringing different bodies of expertise to a common research project.
With respect to research, the African partners, with a view to appropriating and strengthening the initiatives, now plan to come together around a common research project on the same topic and raise the necessary funds themselves.
This article reviews the scope of databases for common histopathology research projects, the ethical and legal considerations, design of the database structure, coding of data items, and import and export of data from databases.
They found that, today, it is common for research project teams to use practices such as division of labor, task standardization, and hierarchies within teams that make them akin to small factories for knowledge production and that the size of the team predicts the extent to which such factory-like practices are implemented.
As is common in qualitative research projects, a key question appeared as to when and how data saturation was achieved.
