Gender Diversity and Team Science. Conceptual Framework.

The following document presents the conceptual framework of the GEDII project. As such it
reviews the literature roughly pertaining to three quite separate knowledge fields, namely
Team Science (Chapter 1), Research Assessment (Chapter 2) and Gender Research (Chapter
3). Overall, we have proceeded to review first the literature on the main factors that affect team
performance, followed by the different ways that research is currently assessed and
evaluated. The third chapter then aims to flesh out the gender dimensions of team science
and research assessment in order to arrive at an understanding how gender diversity
specifically affects team performance. The fourth chapter finally spells out the
methodological implications for our case study research, the development of the Gender-
Diversity-Index and the survey.