There is evidence that successful TD team science increases research productivity [7], yields more rapid and broader dissemination of research findings across the scholarly literature of multiple disciplines and fields [8], and produces highly significant scientific outcomes and practical applications [9]. Yet the approach also introduces unique challenges, including the added time and effort needed for communication with more diverse group of collaborators [2,10]; conflicts stemming from the varied goals, values, and implicit assumptions that collaborators from multiple disciplines and fields bring to the research endeavor [2,11]; competing obligations to one's home discipline/department [12]; and perhaps not unsurprisingly, a delay in productivity that likely results from the increased “start-up” time needed for TD teams to overcome these and other challenges [3,6,7,13,14].
