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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sugimoto, Cassidy R
• Robinson-Garcia, Nicolas
• Murray, Dakota S
• Yegros-Yegros, Alfredo
• Costas, Rodrigo
• Larivière, Vincent

Titel

Scientists have most impact when they're free to move

Ist Teil von

• Nature (London), 2017-10, Vol.550 (7674), p.29-31

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To assess the impacts of such political actions, we need better ways to measure researcher mobility. Although the size and composition of the scientific workforce is fairly well established through national surveys and registries1, less is known about how often researchers move, where they go, what networks they form, and how important their movement is to the scientific impact of their work2. We present here a new analysis based on the records of 14 million papers from nearly 16 million unique individuals who published between 2008 and 2015.