Academic Team Formulation Based on Liebig’s Barrel: Discovery of Anticask Effect

Academic team formulation is one of the most critical and fundamental issues in team research. Inspired by the Liebig's metaphor, we formulate an academic team by a barrel composed of planks, namely, Liebig's barrel. We study the capacity of Liebig's barrel from several aspects. Then, we abstract the features in academic teams as those in Liebig's barrel due to the correspondences between team size and plank number, individual member ability and...