The Global Science Research Project
Description
The Global Science Research Project (GlobSci) is a one-time cross-sectional study looking at scientists working in 16 “core” countries. The methodology involved surveying corresponding authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields who were studying or working in one of the 16 countries. The four fields are Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, and Materials. The articles were restricted to those available in the Web of Science.
The survey resulted in 19,183 records and aimed to produce a comprehensive picture of mobility patterns based on the mobility status of active researchers in 2009.
The study was not designed specifically to model research careers, neither does it adopt a definition of career. However, since the focus is on mobility patterns, the survey focuses on whether certain career milestones have been attained.
Meta-Data
| Study Title (long) | The Global Science Research Project | ||||||||||||||||
| Study Title (short) | GlobSci | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinating Institution | National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) | ||||||||||||||||
| Creator | Chiara Franzoni Giuseppe Scellato Paula Stephan | ||||||||||||||||
| Contributor | - | ||||||||||||||||
| Sponsor | Regional Government of the Piedmont Region (Italy) under the Social Science and Humanities program 2009, IPE Program, National Bureau of Economic Research (USA). | ||||||||||||||||
| Type | One-time cross-sectional | ||||||||||||||||
| Description of Observations | Corresponding authors of articles published in 2009 in four fields of science in Web of Science who were studying or working in one of 16 'core' countries | ||||||||||||||||
| Waves | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
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| URL | http://www.nber.org/workinggroups/ipe/ipe_researchproject.html | ||||||||||||||||
| Documentation | https://media.nature.com/original/nature-assets/nbt/journal/v30/n12/extref/nbt.2449-S1.pdf | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) | ||||||||||||||||
| Keywords | scientists' mobility patterns international networks scientific performance |
Documentation
A description of the study can be is Franzoni and colleagues (2012)[1]. The questionnaire or interview guideline is not available to the RISIS team.
Data Collection Rounds
The data collection was carried out once.
Results
The results show that researchers decide to be mobile to improve their career prospects (Scellato et al., 2012[2]). The empirical investigation focuses on the mobility dynamics and its connection with scientific productivity and collaboration.
Further results indicate that mobile scientists are more prone to establish international links, have links with a larger number of countries and exhibit superior performances in international collaborations than natives with no prior experience of mobility. Results also indicate the existence of a performance premium for both the foreign-born and the returnees over the non-mobile.
Sources
- ↑ Franzoni, C., Scellato, G. & Stephan, P. (2012). Foreign-born scientists: mobility patterns for 16 countries. Nature Biotechnology, 30 (12), pp. 1250-1253. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2449
- ↑ Scellato, G., Franzoni, C. & Stephan, P. (2012). Mobile Scientists and International Networks. NBER Working Paper No. 18613. https://doi.org/10.3386/w18613
