Table 1.

Recommended team science criteria for promotion and tenure

Faculty member influences collaboration and team effectiveness
• Co-investigator or consultant substantially influences the direction of grant applications and projects to influence their aims, approach, significance, and innovation to make the proposals fundable and projects impactful
• Mobilize and collaboratively convene the research team and community partners
• Share knowledge or collaborative technologies in dispersed or large teams
• Develop consensus around shared research goals
• Foster respect among team members
• Build network linkages with data security, privacy, and easy access
• Share information, credit, or decision-making responsibilities
• Provide participatory, inclusive, and empowering leadership
• Adapt flexibly to changing tasks
• Contribute to professional and leadership development of research team members
Faculty member contributes to the scientific process and products
• Contribute to the conception of research questions, hypotheses, and specific aims
• Participate in literature review input in the design of research protocols for institutional review board
• Gather data from participants
• Biostatistical study design, data analysis, and interpretation
• Input in manuscript writing and editing and coauthorship of peer-reviewed publications
• Present research findings at local, regional, national, or international meetings
• Support intellectual property ownership, patents, and licensing