Fig 1.
Inputs, mediators (process and emergent states) and outputs. Hypothesis numbers are shown.
Table 1.
Hypotheses posed in this paper.
Fig 2.
A depiction of the way the working groups work together in our scenarios, where groups of diverse people meet together intermittently over a period of time in a supported environment to examine difficult, multi-disciplinary, problems. The meetings might each last up to a week, and are often at six month to yearly intervals.
Table 2.
The effect of input variables on citation and publication diversity.
Fig 3.
Influences on citations received.
The median number of citations received by a group’s publications against (a) publication discipline and (b) the diversity of publications cited. One group is an outlier to the plot in 4(a) and is not visible in the plot. The 95% confidence envelope around the trend is shown. ‘0’ on the axes is the grand mean for all groups for that variable, and the intervals shown are one standard deviation from the mean. The data points show the partial residuals for the groups, i.e., the residual after controlling for the other variables in the regression.
Table 3.
Factors predicting output variables.
Table 4.
Predictors of satisfaction and perceived group effectiveness.
Fig 4.
Graphical summary of the quantitative results. *specifically median citations received by each article.
Table 5.
Summary of the outcome of the hypothesis tests.