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

Ekaterina L. Dyachenko ()
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Ekaterina L. Dyachenko: National Research University Higher School of Economics

Scientometrics, 2017, vol. 113, issue 1, No 6, 105-122

Abstract: Abstract When scientists change jobs, they bring to their new workplace the experience, tacit knowledge and social ties they acquired at their previous workplace. Not only is the level of mobility important when discussing knowledge transfer between academic organizations or between regions, but the topology of a mobility network is also of crucial importance. This study presents a comparison of the structure of internal migration networks for Russian and American physicists, more specifically for scholars working in the field of applied physics. The comparison resulted in the set of hypotheses of how the features of the network are connected to the overall scientific productivity of the system.

Keywords: Knowledge flows; Knowledge transfer; Labor mobility; Scientific mobility; Migrant scientists; Network structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-017-2478-8

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