The impact of heterogeneous shared leadership in scientific teams

Huimin Xu, Meijun Liu, Yi Bu, Shujing Sun, Yi Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Daniel E. Acuna, Steven Gray, Eric T. Meyer, Ying Ding

Abstract: Highlights•We distinguish scientific leaders with different career ages and roles in shared leadership.•We consider two kinds of shared leadership, heterogenous ones in different age cohorts and homogenous ones in the same age cohorts.•We explore the relationship between different shared leaderships and team impact.•Heterogenous shared leadership brings higher team impact.