Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data

Субботин, А. А.; Aref, Samin

doi:10.4054/mpidr-wp-2020-025

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“…In order to analyze the international migration of researchers, many studies have relied on bibliometric databases. Recent studies offered proxies for place of residence [17]; provided information on bilateral international migration flows [18]; offered a methodological framework for dealing with multiple affiliations [19], analyzed the movements of highly mobile researchers and return migration flows [20], and studied the impact of migration on different fields of scholarship in a country [14]. In particular, Scopus has been widely used to analyze international mobility [14,21,22] due to its advantages compared to other bibliometric databases.…”

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“…Recent studies offered proxies for place of residence [17]; provided information on bilateral international migration flows [18]; offered a methodological framework for dealing with multiple affiliations [19], analyzed the movements of highly mobile researchers and return migration flows [20], and studied the impact of migration on different fields of scholarship in a country [14]. In particular, Scopus has been widely used to analyze international mobility [14,21,22] due to its advantages compared to other bibliometric databases. For instance, Scopus provides a wider breadth of records for a number of disciplines [23] and offers a more reliable author ID, [24] which is considered to be more suitable for tracking the movements of individual researchers [25].…”

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“…The migration of Mexican researchers abroad, particularly to the US, seems to be tied to differences in favorable conditions of the labor market [12], and to changes in visa availability [13]. However, rather than focusing on a loss of talent, or brain drain [14], public policy can concentrate on harnessing the flows of researchers who come to (or return to) Mexico [15], and, similarly, on internal movers who can strengthen the domestic academic system. It remains unclear whether scholarly migration in Mexico has increased or slowed down in the last two decades as a result of special socioeconomic conditions, such as government spending on public institutions, social inequality, and the availability of alternative jobs in the private sector.…”

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Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

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The migration of scholars is a major driver of innovation and of diffusion of knowledge. Although large-scale bibliometric data have been used to measure international migration of scholars, our understanding of internal migration among researchers is very limited. This is partly due to a lack of data aggregated at a suitable sub-national level. In this study, we analyze internal migration in Mexico based on over 1.1 million authorship records from the Scopus database. We trace the movements of scholars between Mexican states, and provide key demographic measures of internal migration for the 1996–2018 period. From a methodological perspective, we develop a new framework for enhancing data quality, inferring states from affiliations, and detecting moves from modal states for the purposes of studying internal migration among researchers. Substantively, we combine demographic and network science techniques to improve our understanding of internal migration patterns within country boundaries. The migration patterns between states in Mexico appear to be heterogeneous in size and direction across regions. However, while many scholars remain in their regions, there seems to be a preference for Mexico City and the surrounding states as migration destinations. We observed that over the past two decades, there has been a general decreasing trend in the crude migration intensity. However, the migration network has become more dense and more diverse, and has included greater exchanges between states along the Gulf and the Pacific Coast. Our analysis, which is mostly empirical in nature, lays the foundations for testing and developing theories that can rely on the analytical framework developed by migration scholars, and the richness of appropriately processed bibliometric data.

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“…Отечественные работы по изучению академической мобильности российских исследователей весьма немногочисленны [9,[30][31][32].…”

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“…Ю. Горелова [9] обращается к феномену межвузовской мобильности не исследователей, а преподавателей; ее работа строится на выборке относительно небольшого объема, данные о которой были собраны в 2012 году при помощи опроса. И. Гангули [30], А. Субботин и С. Ареф [31] исследуют феномен утечки умов из России. А. Е. Судакова раскрывает некоторые особенности библиометрического подхода к оценке академической мобильности и применяет авторский алгоритм на основе этого подхода для оценки мобильности исследователей -представителей Уральского федерального университета [32].…”

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Academic Mobility Assessment: the Strengths and Limitations of Different Approaches

Kryachko¹

2020

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The article discusses methodological approaches to measuring academic mobility when a researcher changes his place of work within the academic environment. Researchers’ academic mobility is a factor of their productivity, it provides knowledge transfer, renews scientific ideas, and in general contributes to the active development of higher education and science. However, in Russia the phenomenon of academic mobility is not studied sufficiently and demands an estimation of both mobility as a whole, and its factors, and its consequences. There are not many data sources on mobility, and getting corresponding information is often problematic – these factors make it difficult to empirically measure researchers’ academic mobility. This review might be the first step towards filling the gap in empirical research on academic mobility in Russia. The author suggests a detailed analysis of academic mobility assessment methodologies, including surveys, CVs, bibliometric and combined approaches. The article summarizes the experience of practical approaches application, identifies advantages and disadvantages of each of them, and provides their comparative analysis. The author comes to the conclusion that in the absence of a unique approach to measuring the academic mobility, the bibliometric approach, which provides large representative samplings, research results reproducibility, and greater possibilities of mobility factors assessment, best meets the goals of modern research on causality of academic mobility. This paper should help those who study science and higher education in selecting the most suitable approach to academic mobility measurement and in considering a number of nuances of each approach as practically applied in the research planning process.

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Academic mobility from a big data perspective

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Understanding the careers and movements of highly skilled people plays an ever-increasing role in today’s global knowledge-based economy. Researchers and academics are sources of innovation and development for governments and institutions. Our study uses scientific-related data to track careers evolution and Researchers’ movements over time. To this end, we define the Yearly Degree of Collaborations Index, which measures the annual tendency of researchers to collaborate intra-nationally, and two scores to measure the mobility in and out of countries, as well as their balance.

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Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

Academic Mobility Assessment: the Strengths and Limitations of Different Approaches

Academic mobility from a big data perspective

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