24 research outputs found
Interregional Mobility Patterns of Russian Scientists and Their Willingness to Move in the Future
Mobility of highly skilled personnel is closely related to the issue of human capital distribution, determining innovative development prospects of various regions and countries. The present study focuses on intra-Russian interregional mobility, in particular, the movement of scientists between different cities and constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Based on the questionnaire survey of 1880 Russian researchers, we examined the actual movements of scientists (to receive education and gain work experience in other regions and countries) and their attitude to mobility (willingness to move in the future to participate in interesting projects and/or work expecting satisfying remuneration). Analysis of mobility patterns of these scientists revealed the characteristics of Russian researchers willing to move to small towns. Interregional migration occurs mostly at the time of receiving education or immediately afterwards. At later career stages, the majority of researchers prefer to work in one place for long periods of time. Scientists who already had an interregional mobility experience are more likely to consider moving in the future since they have an attitude to mobility. A certain category of researchers is willing to relocate abroad as well as to major and small Russian cities. Scientists unwilling to move to small towns are concerned about their professional growth, difficulties for the family, a different lifestyle, and a change in professional and personal social networks. Thus, in order to develop regional research and education centres and stimulate intra-Russian academic mobility, relevant programmes and measures should take these aspects into account
Interregional Mobility Patterns of Russian Scientists and Their Willingness to Move in the Future
Mobility of highly skilled personnel is closely related to the issue of human capital distribution, determining innovative development prospects of various regions and countries. The present study focuses on intra-Russian interregional mobility, in particular, the movement of scientists between different cities and constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Based on the questionnaire survey of 1880 Russian researchers, we examined the actual movements of scientists (to receive education and gain work experience in other regions and countries) and their attitude to mobility (willingness to move in the future to participate in interesting projects and/or work expecting satisfying remuneration). Analysis of mobility patterns of these scientists revealed the characteristics of Russian researchers willing to move to small towns. Interregional migration occurs mostly at the time of receiving education or immediately afterwards. At later career stages, the majority of researchers prefer to work in one place for long periods of time. Scientists who already had an interregional mobility experience are more likely to consider moving in the future since they have an attitude to mobility. A certain category of researchers is willing to relocate abroad as well as to major and small Russian cities. Scientists unwilling to move to small towns are concerned about their professional growth, difficulties for the family, a different lifestyle, and a change in professional and personal social networks. Thus, in order to develop regional research and education centres and stimulate intra-Russian academic mobility, relevant programmes and measures should take these aspects into account
Factors Influencing Cities' Publishing Efficiency
Recently, a vast number of scientific publications have been produced in
cities in emerging countries. It has long been observed that the publication
output of Beijing has exceeded that of any other city in the world, including
such leading centres of science as Boston, New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.
Researchers have suggested that, instead of focusing on cities' total
publication output, the quality of the output in terms of the number of highly
cited papers should be examined. However, in the period from 2014 to 2016,
Beijing produced as many highly cited papers as Boston, London, or New York. In
this paper, I propose another method to measure cities' publishing performance;
I focus on cities' publishing efficiency (i.e., the ratio of highly cited
articles to all articles produced in that city). First, I rank 554 cities based
on their publishing efficiency, then I reveal some general factors influencing
cities' publishing efficiency. The general factors examined in this paper are
as follows: the linguistic environment, cities' economic development level, the
location of excellent organisations, cities' international collaboration
patterns, and the productivity of scientific disciplines
The many faces of mobility : using bibliometric data to measure the movement of scientists
This paper presents a methodological framework for developing scientific mobility indicators based on bibliometric data. We identify nearly 16 million individual authors from publications covered in the Web of Science for the 2008–2015 period. Based on the information provided across individuals’ publication records, we propose a general classification for analyzing scientific mobility using institutional affiliation changes. We distinguish between migrants--authors who have ruptures with their country of origin--and travelers--authors who gain additional affiliations while maintaining affiliation with their country of origin. We find that 3.7% of researchers who have published at least one paper over the period are mobile. Travelers represent 72.7% of all mobile scholars, but migrants have higher scientific impact. We apply this classification at the country level, expanding the classification to incorporate the directionality of scientists’ mobility (i.e., incoming and outgoing). We provide a brief analysis to highlight the utility of the proposed taxonomy to study scholarly mobility and discuss the implications for science policy
Are internationally co-authored journal articles better quality? The UK case 2014-2020
International collaboration is sometimes encouraged in the belief that it
generates higher quality research or is more capable of addressing societal
problems. In support of this, there is evidence that the journal articles of
international teams tend to be more cited than average. Reasons other than the
benefits of international collaboration could explain this, however, such as
increased national audiences from researcher networks. This article
investigates research quality using 148,977 UK-based journal articles with post
publication peer review scores from the 2021 Research Excellence Framework
(REF). Based on an ordinal regression model controlling for collaboration,
international partners increased the odds of higher quality scores in 27 out of
34 Units of Assessment (UoAs) and all four Main Panels. At the country level,
the results suggests that UK collaboration with other advanced economies
generates higher quality research, even if the countries produce lower citation
impact journal articles than the UK. Conversely, collaborations with weaker
economies tend to produce lower quality research, as judged by REF assessors.
Overall, the results give the first large scale evidence of when international
co-authorship for journal articles is beneficial, at least from a UK
perspective, and support the continuation of research policies that promote it
Analysing Scientific Mobility and Collaboration in the Middle East and North Africa
This study investigates the scientific mobility and international
collaboration networks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region
between 2008 and 2017. By using affiliation metadata available in scientific
publications, we analyse international scientific mobility flows and
collaboration linkages. Three complementary approaches allow us to obtain a
detailed characterization of scientific mobility. First, we uncover the main
destinations and origins of mobile scholars for each country. Results reveal
geographical, cultural and historical proximities. Cooperation programs also
contribute to explain some of the observed flows. Second, we use the academic
age. The average academic age of migrant scholars in MENA was about 12.4 years.
The academic age group 6-to-10 years is the most common for both emigrant and
immigrant scholars. Immigrants are relatively younger than emigrants, except
for Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Turkey. Scholars who migrated to Gulf
Cooperation Council countries, Jordan and Morocco were in average younger than
emigrants by 1.5 year from the same countries. Third, we analyse gender
differences. We observe a clear gender gap: Male scholars represent the largest
group of migrants in MENA. We conclude discussing the policy relevance of the
scientific mobility and collaboration aspects.Comment: 37 pages, 9 figures, 5 table
A bibliometric analysis of brand equity 1991 - 2018
Este artículo proporciona un análisis bibliométrico del estado actual de la investigación del brand equity, mediante el mapeo del panorama de investigación del concepto para identificar autores y países más productivos a lo largo del tiempo, análisis de publicaciones, cooperación entre autores, co-citas y co-ocurrencias de palabras clave; además, la identificación de clústeres de investigación para visualizar la estructura conceptual de este campo de conocimiento. Utilizando la colección de Scopus, este estudio realiza un análisis de 2000 publicaciones que estudian el brand equity. Se identifican cuatro grandes grupos de investigación: brand equity, análisis empíricos, el sector servicios y la metodología común de los estudios, los cuales caracterizan las diferentes corrientes de investigación y permiten analizar los campos de acción más preponderantes para el entendimiento del brand equity. Se proponen nuevos estudios que incluyan revisión sistemática tradicional para complementar lo planteado en este documento. Esta investigación otorga una visión general que puede ser una guía valiosa para docentes, investigadores y profesionalesThis document provides a bibliometric analysis of the current state of the brand equity research by mapping the research landscape to identify more productive authors and countries over time, analysis of publications, cooperation between authors, co-appointments, co-occurrences of keywords; plus, identification of research clusters to visualize the conceptual structure of the field of knowledge. Using the Scopus collection, this study analyzes 2000 publications that study brand equity. Identify four major research groups: brand equity, empirical analysis, the services sector and the common methodology of the studies, which characterize the different research trends and analyze the most preponderant fields of action for the understanding of brand equity; new studies are proposed that include a traditional systematic review to complement what is stated in this document. This research provides an overview that can be a valuable guide for teachers, researchers and professionalsUniversidad Pablo de Olavid