Interdisciplinary teams are assembled in scientific research and are aimed at solving complex problems. Given their increasing importance, it is not surprising that considerable attention has been focused on processes of collaboration in interdisciplinary teams. Despite such efforts, we know less about the factors affecting the assembly of such teams in the first place. In this paper, we investigate the structure and the success of interdisciplinary scientific research teams. We examine the assembly factors using a sample of 1103 grant proposals submitted to two National Science Foundation interdisciplinary initiatives during a 3-year period, including both awarded and non-awarded proposals. The results indicate that individuals’ likelihood of collaboration on a proposal is higher among those with longer tenure, lower institutional tier, lower H-index, and with higher levels of prior co-authorship and citation relationships. However, successful proposals have a little bit different relational patterns: individuals’ likelihood of collaboration is higher among those with lower institutional tier, lower H-index, (female) gender, higher levels of prior co-authorship, but with lower levels of prior citation relationships.

跨学科团队聚集在科学研究中，旨在解决复杂的问题。鉴于它们的重要性日益增加，跨学科团队的协作过程受到相当多的关注也就不足为奇了。尽管做出了这些努力，但我们对影响此类团队组建的因素知之甚少。在本文中，我们调查了跨学科科研团队的结构和成功之处。我们使用 3 年期间提交给两个国家科学基金会跨学科计划的 1103 份赠款提案的样本来检查组装因素，包括获奖和未获奖的提案。结果表明，在任期较长、机构级别较低、较低的 H 指数，以及较高水平的先前合着和引文关系。然而，成功的提案有一些不同的关系模式：机构级别较低、H 指数较低、（女性）性别、先前合着水平较高但先前合着水平较低的个体之间合作的可能性较高。引用关系。