Nature provides us with time-tested blueprints to inspire unique thinking and innovative designs. Bioinspired design (BID) is the process of integrating fundamental biological and engineering approaches to solve technological problems. Successful BID depends on the collaboration of experts across these fields. Team science research suggests that collaborators engaging in transdisciplinary research can face multiple challenges, including complex motivations across researchers from different disciplines, misperceptions of benefits between researchers in different fields, and institutionalized barriers that disincentivize interdisciplinary work. Our prior work (Barley et al., 2022) established that BID researchers perceived these challenges to building truly transdisciplinary research teams, suggesting that much of the work being published in this space may be being produced from within disciplinary silos. Yet, bibliometric scholarship (e.g., Shi & Evans, 2023) suggests that those teams who successfully include the participation of biologists and engineers may be disproportionately able to innovate in ways that unidisciplinary teams cannot. In this work, we perform a structured review alongside a co-authorship analysis to ask: How transdisciplinary is BID research? And how does the makeup of a co-authorship team influence the content of the products they produce? To determine if collaborative projects are truly transdisciplinary, we codified self-identified bioinspired design journal articles. For this poster, we present our results for one of those topics, “flight,” and focus on articles that use terminology related to BID and flight. Flight was chosen because bioinspiration has played a key role in shaping aerial systems research for decades. For this investigation, we used the two largest abstract and indexing databases: Web Of Science Core Collection and Scopus. We codified parameters such as team size, team member affiliation, journal type, funding sources, and impact of the research. Our work extends prior bibliometric research (e.g., Ng et al., 2021) on BID by (1) providing paper-level analyses of co-authorship structures and (2) relating these structures with semantic analyses of transdisciplinary integration. We hypothesize that (1) published BID research is predominantly produced by engineering co-authorship teams, and (2) because of that, most BID products tend to emphasize applications to building devices or systems rather than advancing biological research/theory. However, (3) those papers that are co-authored by diverse co-authorship teams (i.e., evenly split between biologists and engineers) will exhibit an increased propensity for cross-disciplinary synthesis and applications of BID knowledge. Therefore, there is a need for formal mechanisms that enhance the transdisciplinarity of BID via structural resources to facilitate dialog and to acknowledge the systemic barriers to collaboration (Barley et al., 2022). The bibliometric methods we develop herein can serve as a model for application for the study of other cross-disciplinary research topics.