Table 1.

Evaluation factors/criteria and list of teams

Research/scientific outcome factors	Team process development factors
RP: research plan	VC: vision and charter
Novel and sophisticated plan	Established identity
Conceptually or technically innovative	Shared vision of future
	Developed from team consensus
RG: research generation	TL: transformative leadership
Productivity, data collection, analysis	Leader solicits and integrates contributions from team
Appropriate use of key resources	Leader builds consensus
	Periodic exploration of new opportunities
	Explore synergy
RC: research communication/program growth	MM: meeting management
Publications	Regular meetings
Grant application success	Agenda‐driven meeting
PT: progress in translation	EC: external communication/collaboration
Clinical or community impact	Interaction with collaborators beyond the team and outside the institution
	Additive or synergistic research productivity
Teams:
Addictions and impulse control disorders	Aging muscle and sarcopenia
Burns injury and response	Epidemiology of estrogens
Hepatocellular carcinoma biomarkers	Maternal fetal medicine
Novel therapeutics for Clostridium difficile	Obesity and its metabolic complications
Pediatric respiratory infections—bronchiolitis	Pediatric respiratory infections—otitis media
Phenotypes of severe asthma	Reproductive women's health