The Project
Who does the work in science, who gets the credit, and why it matters for inequality.
What STITCH is about
Science is increasingly done in teams, yet we still evaluate it as if it were the work of individuals. STITCH (Scientific Teams and InequaliTies: Collaboration and Heterogeneity in Science) looks inside research teams to understand how work is divided, how this varies across fields, and how that division shapes careers and inequalities by gender, geography and career stage.
We combine sociology of science, bibliometrics and data science, starting from a large collection of publications with contribution statements (CRediT). The goal is evidence that helps build fairer ways of recognising and evaluating collective work.
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Map how scientific teams organise their work across fields.
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Follow how teams and roles change over time.
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Uncover the inequalities built into who does what.
Where we are
A living roadmap: plans change as research does.
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Secured access to large-scale contribution data and expanded it with a second delivery covering 2023–2025.
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How work is divided across disciplines
A first map of who does what in research teams, using contribution statements across fields.
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Looking at gender in the scientific workforce
Thirty years of women in Spanish science, as a baseline for the inequality studies.
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Types of team organization
Grouping teams by how they divide labour, and asking what explains the differences.
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How teams change over time
Extending the analysis beyond the original data to follow teams and roles over time.
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Inequalities inside teams
Who gets which role, and how gender, geography and mobility shape it.
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Open data and code
Replication packages and shareable derived data, archived with DOIs.
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Talking to evaluators and policy-makers
A workshop and a short report translating findings into recommendations for research assessment.