Furthermore, Roberts [ 20] argue that part of the explanation for the higher impact factor is probably that only the strongest researchers will have the resources and motivation to overcome the difficulties of collaboration over a distance, and that the biggest and highest profile projects are more likely to be international.
Promoting health was conceived as 'non-urgent' and was not prioritized, which explained the difficulty of establishing collaboration with Hälsotorg.
As one of the interviewees stated: "Despite the difficulties...that kind of collaboration is what we need to do more and we just need to get better at it".
As the number of subjects increased, so did concerns about 'Research Quality' and difficulties 'Understanding Partners Research Approaches', whereas 'Ease of Collaboration' reduced.
This chapter outlines common obstacles to librarian faculty partnerships at regional comprehensive universities, namely the lack of models for digital humanities at regional comprehensive universities, and the difficulty of fostering ethical librarian faculty collaboration.
In this paper she analyses the methodologies of investigation and the discussions about forms and representations, and shows the difficulties and rewards of this type of collaboration.
Anyway, its application is still far from real industrial scenarios mainly due to difficulties in choosing the right partners, lack of collaboration among the partners, poor integration among the companies' system platforms, and lack of knowledge about the available technologies.
In our opinion, the collaboratory concepts we discuss can guide planning and design of future collaborative infrastructure by biomedical informatics researchers to alleviate some of the difficulties of interdisciplinary biomedical collaboration.
These studies of collaboration provide insight into how to potentially alleviate the difficulties of interdisciplinary collaborative research.
