Barry Bozeman is the director of the Center for Organization Research and Design, and Arizona Centennial Professor of Technology Policy and Public Management at Arizona State University. His books include Public Values and Public Interest and All Organizations Are Public. Jan Youtie is director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Focusing on the nascent science of team science,The Strength in Numbers synthesizes the results of the most far-reaching study to date on collaboration among university scientists to provide answers to such questions. Drawing on a national survey with responses from researchers at more than one hundred universities, anonymous web posts, archival data, and extensive interviews with active scientists and engineers in over a dozen STEM disciplines, Barry Bozeman and Jan Youtie set out a framework to characterize different types of collaboration and their likely outcomes. They also develop a model to define research effectiveness, which assesses factors internal and external to collaborations. They advance what they have found to be the gold standard of science collaborations: consultative collaboration management. This strategy - which codifies methods of consulting all team members on a study's key points and incorporates their preferences and values - empowers managers of STEM collaborations to optimize the likelihood of their effectiveness.