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Scientists have most impact when they're free to move

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  • Cassidy R. Sugimoto

    (Indiana University Bloomington
    Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University)

  • Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

    (social scientist and bibliometrics specialist at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Technical University of Valencia)

  • Dakota S. Murray

    (graduate student in informatics at Indiana University Bloomington)

  • Alfredo Yegros-Yegros

    (Leiden University)

  • Rodrigo Costas

    (Leiden University
    Stellenbosch University)

  • Vincent Larivière

    (associate professor of information science at the University of Montreal
    associate scientific director of the Observatory of Science and Technology
    Leiden University)

Abstract

An analysis of researchers' global mobility reveals that limiting the circulation of scholars will damage the scientific system, say Cassidy R. Sugimoto and colleagues.

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  • Cassidy R. Sugimoto & Nicolas Robinson-Garcia & Dakota S. Murray & Alfredo Yegros-Yegros & Rodrigo Costas & Vincent Larivière, 2017. "Scientists have most impact when they're free to move," Nature, Nature, vol. 550(7674), pages 29-31, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:550:y:2017:i:7674:d:10.1038_550029a
    DOI: 10.1038/550029a
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    1. Servedio, Vito D.P. & Ferreira, Márcia R. & Reisz, Niklas & Costas, Rodrigo & Thurner, Stefan, 2023. "Scale-free growth in regional scientific capacity building explains long-term scientific dominance," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 167(C).
    2. Aliakbar Akbaritabar & Tom Theile & Emilio Zagheni, 2023. "Global flows and rates of international migration of scholars," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2023-018, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    3. Pedro Aceituno-Aceituno & Joaquín Danvila-del-Valle & Abel González García & Carlos Bousoño-Calzón, 2021. "Scientific Mobility, Training and Entrepreneurial Skills in Health Sciences: The Spanish Case," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(4), pages 1-22, February.
    4. He, Chaocheng & Liu, Fuzhen & Dong, Ke & Wu, Jiang & Zhang, Qingpeng, 2023. "Research on the formation mechanism of research leadership relations: An exponential random graph model analysis approach," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 17(2).
    5. Liu, Meijun & Hu, Xiao, 2022. "Movers’ advantages: The effect of mobility on scientists’ productivity and collaboration," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 16(3).
    6. Yuan Chih Fu & Marcelo Marques & Yuen-Hsien Tseng & Justin J. W. Powell & David P. Baker, 2022. "An evolving international research collaboration network: spatial and thematic developments in co-authored higher education research, 1998–2018," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 127(3), pages 1403-1429, March.
    7. Han, Fang & Zhang, Ruhao & Zhang, Shengtai & Yuan, Junpeng, 2024. "International mobility characteristics, effects of, and effects on elite scientists," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 18(1).

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