A clear trend can be seen in multidisciplinary papers consistently outperforming technical or application-based papers, even on the metrics specific to their own discipline ( Figure 3 ).
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On the Necessity of Multidisciplinarity in the Development of at-Home Health Monitoring Platforms for Older Adults: Systematic Review.
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Likewise, there is a definite trend across all research team types that exhibit lower evaluation scores when neither caregivers nor end users participate in the design or evaluation of research.
While this indicates that application focused papers typically address more concerns with real-life deployment of research solutions, there is also a notable trend that this focus on application comes at a slightly increased tendency to neglect technical aspects of research (with both technical and multidisciplinary papers outperforming application-based papers on technical metrics).