Reports presenting findings of the AIP Center's study of the organizational structures and functions of large research collaborations. Of broad interest to scholars concerned with the social context of modern science or current archival methodology. Particularly useful to those institutions and individuals with responsibilities for selecting records of archival value to meet the needs of administrators and future historians and other scholars.
Phase I: High-Energy Physics
- Report No. 1: Summary of Project Activities and Findings / Project Recommendations, by Joan Warnow-Blewett and Spencer R. Weart. October 1992.
- Report No. 2: Documenting Collaborations in High-Energy Physics, by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Lynn Maloney, and Roxanne Nilan. October 1992.
- Report No. 3: Catalog of Selected Historical Materials, by Bridget Sisk, Lynn Maloney, and Joan Warnow-Blewett. October 1992. More current versions of these records are in our International Catalog of Sources.
- Report No. 4: Historical Findings on Collaborations in High-Energy Physics, by Joel Genuth, Peter Galison, John Krige, Frederik Nebeker, and Lynn Maloney. 142 pp., October 1992.
Phase II: Space Science & Geophysics
- Report No. 1: Summary of Project Activities and Findings / Project Recommendations, by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Anthony J. Capitos, Joel Genuth, and Spencer R. Weart. October 1995.
- Report No. 2: Documenting Collaborations in Space Science and Geophysics, by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Anthony J. Capitos, Joel Genuth, and Spencer R. Weart with contributions by Frederik Nebeker, Lynne Zucker, and Michael Darby. October 1995.
Phase III: Ground-Based Astronomy, Materials Science, Heavy-Ion and Nuclear Physics, Medical Physics, and Computer-Mediated Collaborations
- Report No. 1: Summary of Project Activities and Findings / Project Recommendations, by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Joel Genuth, and Spencer R. Weart. October 1999. (PDF version: 52pp, 110K)
- Report No. 2: Documenting Collaborations in Ground-Based Astronomy, Materials Science, Heavy-Ion and Nuclear Physics, Medical Physics, and Computer-Mediated Collaborations (PDF)(157pp, 740K), by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Joel Genuth, and Spencer R. Weart with contributions by Ivan Chompalove and Wesley Shrum. October 1999.
Final Report
- Highlights and Project Recommendations, by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Joel Genuth, and Spencer R. Weart. May 2001. (PDF version: 66pp, 855K)
- Documenting Multi-Institutional Collaborations (PDF) (254pp, 2.7MB), by Joan Warnow-Blewett, Joel Genuth, and Spencer R. Weart. May 2001.
Published articles on project findings
- "The Organization of Scientific Collaboration," by Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov, and Wesley Shrum, Research Policy (2002) 31, 5 : 749-767.
- "Trust, Conflict, and Performance in Scientific Collaborations," by Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov, and Wesley Shrum, Social Studies of Science (2001) 31, 5 : 681-730.
- "How Experiments Begin: The Formation of Scientific Collaborations," by Joel Genuth, Ivan Chompalov, and Wesley Shrum, Minerva 38 (2000): 311-348.
- "Karl Taylor Compton," by Joel Genuth, in American National Biography, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Each of these articles is available for free from the Niels Bohr Library & Archives upon request.