Internal migration of scientists in Russia and the USA: the case of physicists

Dyachenko, Ekaterina

doi:10.1007/s11192-017-2478-8

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“…Speaking of Russian studies, we note E. Dyachenko's work [39], which compares the structure of internal migration networks for Russian and American physicists (in particular, for scientists working in the field of applied physics). Data collection was carried out by the so-called analog method (manually).…”

Section: Theoretical Framementioning

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Digitalization and scientometrics in assessing the migration of scientists

Sudakova¹,

Tarasyev²

2019

Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy (ISCDE 2019)

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The article presents the development of bibliometrics as a tool for assessing scientific activity. The term "bibliometrics" has various formulations and applications: the development of a discipline, the citation of scientists, the study of affiliations of scientists. The transformation of this tool from analog to digital format is also presented. The bibliometric data was first used in the 1920s, however, the method gained popularity after the creation of the Science Citation Index. The controversy of using this method lies in the methodology of the studied object (for example, whether citation is an indicator of scientist productivity, whether it is possible to consider mobility as relocation, affiliate change, or co-authorship with scientists from other universities and research organizations). The study presents an algorithm for generating, processing and analyzing bibliometric data, the need for development of which is dictated by the current situation.

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Section: Theoretical Framementioning

confidence: 99%

Digitalization and scientometrics in assessing the migration of scientists

Sudakova¹,

Tarasyev²

2019

Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference on Digital Economy (ISCDE 2019)

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“…Interregional mobility of highly qualified workforce can be addressed through approaches similar to international migration studies. A number of studies [Sretenova, 2003;Krieger and Maître, 2006;Marx et al, 2015;Dyachenko, 2017] demonstrate that the "brain drain" metaphor is applicable not only to the transition of highly qualified personnel to foreign international markets, but also to domestic centripetal migration processes. The migration "hubs" production in large cities at the regional level is quite similar to the functioning of the countries of global attraction like the United States or the EU [Faggian, McCann, 2009;Faggian et al, 2013].…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A major number of researchers' mobility studies are based on the bibliometrics, analyzing career trajectories and publication activity in different countries and research fields [Laudel, 2003;Cañibano et al, 2011;Dubois et al, 2014;Kato, Ando, 2017;Aman, 2018]. For example, Dyachenko [2017] conducted a comparative study, analyzing Russian and American physicists' publication activity in the Web Of Science database of scientific citation. Author highlights the high degree of concentration of Russian scientists in large cities, primarily in Moscow and St. Petersburg.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Interregional Mobility of Russian Researchers: Moving For A Promising Job

Galina

Александрович

2019

SSRN Journal

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Mobility of highly qualified personnel between countries and regions is closely related to the issue of the effective distribution of human resources and the prospects for the innovative development of the state. The focus of this study is the interregional mobility of Russian researchers: the geographical movements of scientists between different regions (subjects of the Russian Federation). The empirical base of the study is the data obtained in 2016-2017 during the questionnaire survey of 1880 Russian researchers. Two main aspects are analyzed: already accomplished movements of researchers (moving for the educational or working purposes) and the "attitude to mobility"-readiness to move in the future. The features of researchers depending on their mobility pattern are analyzed. Among the most researchers who had the experience of moving in the past (both for education and work purposes) develops the "attitude to mobility". In the future, they are more willing to consider various options for moving both "for interest" (to participate in an important large-scale project), and "for money" (to get the job with acceptable level of remuneration). There exists a category of Russian researchers who are ready to move "anywhere": both abroad and within Russia, to large and to small cities. Researchers who are not ready to move to the place that they consider as a small town in a remote region, are concerned about the prospects for professional growth, difficulties for the family, a different lifestyle, change of professional and personal social circle. These aspects should be taken into account in the development of various programs and measures aimed to stimulate internal academic mobility in Russia.

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“…The feasibility of this method has been tested in previous studies that estimated migration flows [19,20]. As most of the existing studies on this topic limited their focus to specific disciplines [11,15], or to comparisons of a few countries [8,11,17,19,21] or of mobile vs. non-mobile scholars [17,26], more in-depth analysis is needed to provide us with a better understanding of international mobility in academia. That is the objective of this study.…”

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The Demography of the Peripatetic Researcher: Evidence on Highly Mobile Scholars from the Web of Science

Aref

Zagheni

West

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Samin Aref 1[0000−0002−5870−9253] , Emilio Zagheni 1[0000−0002−7660−8368] , and Jevin West 2[0000−0002−4118−0322]The policy debate around researchers' geographic mobility has been moving away from a theorized zero-sum game in which countries can be winners ("brain gain") or losers ("brain drain"), and toward the concept of "brain circulation," which implies that researchers move in and out of countries and everyone benefits. Quantifying trends in researchers' movements is key to understanding the drivers of the mobility of talent, as well as the implications of these patterns for the global system of science, and for the competitive advantages of individual countries. Existing studies have investigated bilateral flows of researchers. However, in order to understand migration systems, determining the extent to which researchers have worked in more than two countries is essential. This study focuses on the subgroup of highly mobile researchers whom we refer to as "peripatetic researchers" or "super-movers."More specifically, our aim is to track the international movements of researchers who have published in more than two countries through changes in the main affiliation addresses of researchers in over 62 million publications indexed in the Web of Science database over the 1956-2016 period. Using this approach, we have established a longitudinal dataset on the international movements of highly mobile researchers across all subject categories, and in all disciplines of scholarship. This article contributes to the literature by offering for the first time a snapshot of the key features of highly mobile researchers, including their patterns of migration and return migration by academic age, the relative frequency of their disciplines, and the relative frequency of their countries of origin and destination. Among other findings, the results point to the emergence of a global system that includes the USA and China as two large hubs, and England and Germany as two smaller hubs for highly mobile researchers.

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Internal migration of scientists in Russia and the USA: the case of physicists

Cited by 17 publications

References 29 publications

Digitalization and scientometrics in assessing the migration of scientists

Digitalization and scientometrics in assessing the migration of scientists

Interregional Mobility of Russian Researchers: Moving For A Promising Job

The Demography of the Peripatetic Researcher: Evidence on Highly Mobile Scholars from the Web of Science

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