Table 2 The scalar values (0, 1, 2, or 3) assigned to each of the ten quantitative thresholds identified in our analysis.

From: Social network analysis to understand participant engagement in transdisciplinary team science: a large U.S. Science and Technology Center case study

Integration threshold

Individual scalar

Averaged value

Quality proxy threshold

N/A

0

< 1

N/A

Below

1

1–1.6

Weak

Average

2

1.7–2.3

Average

Above

3

> 2.3

Strong

  1. The integration and quality proxy threshold scores were then separately averaged to determine overall numeric values for each survey respondent, which were used to develop and assign each survey respondent’s participation typology.