  Exploring whether different patterns emerge across networks generated by
organizational structures, co-authorships and citations for characterizing and
evaluating cooperative relationships is particularly important for transferring
the research results into practice. This research-in-progress paper focuses on
using the structure of scientific collaborations and mapping knowledge transfer
to gain insight into the influence of collaborative research centres linked to
the German Research Foundation (DFG) funding. Within the German Centre for
Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), the DFG sponsors research conducted
across all participating universities and institutes by more than hundred
research groups who bring their expertise to the manifold research fields of
biodiversity. Using iDiv research from 2013-2020, we build co-authorship
networks and identify the most cohesive communities in terms of collaboration
and compare them with groups presented on its website. Corresponding cited and
citing works are analysed by distributions to investigate disciplinary
collaboration. Our findings show that the number of publications and the
intensity of research collaboration have maintained a steady increase. Despite
the highly cohesive cooperation structure addressed by iDiv, the internal
scientific collaboration has not gained strong momentum compared with its
growing trends in international collaborations. The tendency towards covering
cross-disciplinary research foci is not evident.
