The value of an overseas research trip

Aykac G.

Scientometrics, cilt.126, sa.8, ss.7097-7122, 2021 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 126 Sayı: 8
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s11192-021-04052-4
  • Dergi Adı: Scientometrics
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, FRANCIS, Agricultural & Environmental Science Database, Applied Science & Technology Source, BIOSIS, CINAHL, Computer & Applied Sciences, Index Islamicus, Information Science and Technology Abstracts, INSPEC, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA), PAIS International, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, zbMATH
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.7097-7122
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Scientist mobility, High-skilled labor, High-skilled labor migration, Brain drain, Bibliometrics, Scientific productivity, SYNTHETIC CONTROL METHODS, BRAIN-DRAIN, INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY, RESEARCH COLLABORATION, RESEARCH PERFORMANCE, SCIENTIFIC MOBILITY, KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS, ACADEMIC MOBILITY, LABOR MOBILITY, CO-AUTHORSHIP
  • Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

© 2021, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.As an essential part of the academic environment, international scientific mobility draws considerable attention from researchers. Previous studies have indicated a strong relationship between scientific mobility and scientific output. However, few researchers have addressed the causality between them. The research questions in this study focused on how the international scientific mobilization of the researchers affects their number of international collaborations, their ability to get published at higher impact factor journals, the number of citations that they get. Based on the SCOPUS database of English language scientific journal articles, this paper revealed the causal effects of international scientific mobility of the researchers on their scientific productivity, collaborations, and impact on science using the synthetic control method. The author’s affiliation on their articles provided the geographical location that can be tracked in time to infer the international scientific mobility of each author. A sample of more than 79,000 immobile scientists was used to create the synthetic versions of over 1500 internationally mobile scientists, so that, the synthetic version of each mobile author best resembled the academic ability of her/his counterpart mobile author in the pre-mobilization period. This allowed investigating the effects of the international mobilization on their publications by comparing the post-mobilization publication characteristics of the mobile authors and their immobile synthetic controls.The findings show strong evidence of a substantial positive effect of scientific mobility on the ability to get published in more prestigious journals, the number of citations received in total and from overseas, and international collaborations. The magnitude of the effect is conditional on the duration of scientific mobility.