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Recent global crises and shifting geopolitical and funding landscapes have shown that collaboration is not immune to shocks. These disturbances call for a deeper examination of the resilience of science, specifically how the scientific community sustains its functionality and collaborative output amid potential shocks and failures. In this study, we conceptualize resilience as a structural property of scientific collaboration and quantify it using an interpretable, network-theoretic measure. Using a large-scale bibliographic dataset, we construct coauthorship networks across multiple disciplines from 1985 to 2014 and perform stress-test experiments that simulate stylized perturbations to identify the structural elements that support system resilience. Our findings show that discipline-level resilience is positively associated with higher collaboration intensity and, more strongly, with greater variance in scientists\u2019 collaboration outcomes. 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