Researcher mobility at a US research-intensive university: Implications for research and internationalization strategies

Payumo, Jane; Lan, George; Arasu, Prema

doi:10.1093/reseval/rvx038

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“…Several studies explored whether this norm also drives academic recognition in the form of career progression. These studies found a positive association or positive effect of scientific productivity on career progression in certain countries (e.g., in the USA, Ginther and Hayes 2004;Hesli et al, 2012;Weisshaar, 2017;in Taiwan, Tien 2007), but also that mobile scientists are more research productive than non-mobile peers according to standard measure of scientific productivity (Mamiseishvili & Rosser, 2010;Inanc & Tuncer, 2011;Franzoni, Scellato and Stephan 2014;Payumo et al, 2018), but they are rarer at higher rank (Corley & Sabharwal, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In a similar vein, several studies found that non-mobile scientists -i.e., scientists who never changed institutional affiliation -constitute the great majority of the professorial body in systems as diverse as France, Mexico, and Sweden (Godechot & Louvet, 2008;Horta et al, 2010;Lundgren et al, 2018). Scholarly research has repeatedly shown the downsides of academic inbreeding, namely, the practice of hiring a university's own graduates, and the positive effects of organizational mobility on individual and institutional research performance, knowledge exchange, and creativity (e.g., Horta et al, 2010;Horta, 2013;Jacob & Meek, 2013;Franzoni, Scellato and Stephan 2014;Petersen, 2018;Payumo et al, 2018).…”

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Exploring the effects of mobility and foreign nationality on internal career progression in universities

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This article explores how organizational mobility and foreign nationality affect a researcher’s chances of an internal career promotion in university systems that do not have rules preventing inbreeding and where teaching occurs mostly not in English but a local language. As a case study, we have examined the Flemish university system, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, and developed expectations on the chances of promotion for mobile and foreign researchers compared to non-mobile and nationals. We use data for all postdoctoral and professorial staff between 1991 and 2017, for a total of 14,135 scientists. We calculated the chances of promotion with a competing risk model to take time into account and to disentangle the probability of two mutually exclusive risk events: promotion and leaving the university. The results show that international mobility and foreign nationality reduced the chances of promotion in the same university, and that mobile and foreign scientists were also more likely to leave any given university. These effects were particularly strong at an early stage: in the study period, 21.9% of non-mobile national postdocs became professor compared to just 1.2% of internationally mobile foreigners. These results would suggest that internationally mobile and foreign scientists struggle to advance in universities that lack rules preventing inbreeding and with little opportunity to teach in English.

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Exploring the effects of mobility and foreign nationality on internal career progression in universities

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“…This approach gives ground coverage by adding countries on the periphery of world knowledge generation [47]. Such coverage allows departing from contemporary studies that cover the phenomenon of brain drain with a focus on a classic and limited nucleus of countries, mainly: Australia, Canada, China, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom [42,44,46]. Finally, this study contributes to providing temporary coverage of 55 years (1965-2020).…”

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“…Furthermore, bibliometric methods allow the study of brain drain at the microlevel and even adopt a scientometric approach that contributes, through the study of elite mobility, to understand its effects and implications in scientific policies [39,40]. Current studies of brain drain using scientometrics and bibliometrics methodology, in mainstream journals, focused mainly on the field of Information Science and Library Science [39,[41][42][43]. Thus, assuming a proper approach to bibliometric or scientometric studies, these studies focused on the geographical mobility of scientists based on their affiliations [27,39,42,43], the effects on citation impact, academic collaboration, and competence [41,44,45], and its effects on national scientific and technological sustainability [46,47].…”

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Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

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Gónzalez-Gómez-del-Miño

Espinosa-Cristia

2021

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Scholars had been documenting the Brain Drain phenomenon producing scientific literature for more than 50 years. After three decades of slow but steady progress, literature about this concept has accelerated its progress and growth path, in line with the 9th sustainable development goal “Build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation” Thus, the present article aims to define the current theoretical trends about the analysis of advanced intellectual human capital’s international migratory phenomenon. This study uses a scientometric methodology on a corpus of 1212 articles indexed to the JCR-WoS from Social Sciences. The period covered in the study is from 1965 to 2020. The paper looks to understand how researchers studied the brain drain concept over the last 55 years in various disciplines. The report covers 99 categories from the Journal Citation Report (JCR) index. Results show that there is a scientific research critical mass that is studying the brain drain phenomenon. The analysis shows thematic trends at the sources, discourses, and consolidates classic works and some novel authors. Those new scholars and theoretical trends lead to refocused analysis beyond countries with a high development level. Such movement constitutes a new challenge in this line of research toward studying the effects of the brain drain in the peripheral areas of knowledge production.

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“…There is a growing literature providing evidence on the increasing number of internationally co-authored publications in various research fields and increased citation activity, hence, the academic impact for these publications (Leydesdorff and Wagner 2008;Frenken et al 2009;(Fitkar and Rodriguez-Pose 2017;Khor and Yu 2016). Recently, publication and citation data were also used to identify scientific mobility (Mamolejo-Leyva et al 2015;Payumo et al 2018) and the impact of gender, sex and diversity in the global research enterprise (Elsevier 2017).…”

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Metrics-based profiling of university research engagement with Africa: research management, gender, and internationalization perspective

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U.S. university engagement with Africa in various areas including global health, education, environment, and agriculture has grown in the last 15 years. However, there is limited literature that acknowledges the scholarly output and impact of U.S.-Africa university research collaboration in support of their respective institutions' comprehensive internationalization goals. Using Michigan State University (MSU)-a public, research-intensive, land grant university with long history of engagement with Africa, as a case study, this paper aims to measure the research output, describe the collaboration patterns and research trends, and assess the impact of MSU's research engagement on Africa for the last 10 years (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015). It also attempts to determine the gender dimension of MSU's research focus on Africa. Our scientometric and social network analysis provide strong quantitative evidence of scholarly success, research focus and diversification, collaboration, and impact on MSU's engagement on Africa, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathrelated disciplines. The co-authorship data provides evidence of greater collaboration of MSU with non-African countries on African-focused research but a growing number of partner institutions from African countries. This growing collaboration provides significant benefits on strategic research conducted and its impact, as well as increasing the recognition of African researchers as contributors to impactful international research collaborations and improving the ability of MSU and its global and African partners to co-generate knowledge and innovation that can help solve global problems more effectively. Finally, this study provides additional evidence of the increasing involvement of women in advancing knowledge and global innovation to address Africa's socio-economic development challenges. The paper, overall, contributes to the science, research management, and gender perspectives of university internationalization goals and initiatives.

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Researcher mobility at a US research-intensive university: Implications for research and internationalization strategies

Cited by 17 publications

References 22 publications

Exploring the effects of mobility and foreign nationality on internal career progression in universities

Exploring the effects of mobility and foreign nationality on internal career progression in universities

Recognizing New Trends in Brain Drain Studies in the Framework of Global Sustainability

Metrics-based profiling of university research engagement with Africa: research management, gender, and internationalization perspective

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