Should I stay or should I go? Using bibliometrics to identify the international mobility of highly educated Greek manpow
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Should I stay or should I go? Using bibliometrics to identify the international mobility of highly educated Greek manpower Evi Sachini1 · Nikolaos Karampekios1 · Pierpaolo Brutti2 · Konstantinos Sioumalas‑Christodoulou1,2 Received: 9 March 2020 © Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Abstract This paper explores the mobility of the highly educated young Greek scholars. This is made possible through a bibliometric analysis of the affiliation countries of scholars who have published in peer reviewed journals indexed in Scopus. Approximately half of the researchers are identified from publications covered in Scopus for the period 2000–2019. A general taxonomy model is followed for analysing scientific mobility using affiliation changes. The greatest share of researchers (78.3%) appear to be static (74.6% in Greece and 3.7% abroad), whereas the mobile researcher category (21.7%) is divided into migrants (8.9%)—researchers who have left their country of origin—and travellers (12.8%)— researchers who gain additional affiliations while maintaining affiliation with their coun‑ try of origin. According to the findings, the majority and especially the researcher elite (90.5%) did not sever ties with their country of origin, Greece, but instead built a chain of affiliations that linked nations together. Such chains are represented as groups of countries (clusters), in which the scientific connections between different countries can be visualised. It can be reasoned that the majority of researchers (70.3%) have a tendency to publish to a group of countries with ‘traditionally’ significant scientific impact. Keywords Bibliometrics · Young scholars · International mobility · Public funding
* Konstantinos Sioumalas‑Christodoulou [email protected] Evi Sachini [email protected] Nikolaos Karampekios [email protected] Pierpaolo Brutti [email protected] 1
National Documentation Centre, Vas. Konstantinou 48, 11635 Athens, ATH, Greece
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Department of Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5, 00185 Rome, RM, Italy
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Introduction The unprecedented growth in the volume and complexity of available data is a fact which requires a combined multi-disciplinary approach. Within a data science framework, design‑ ing an overall strategy aimed at transforming data into useful information, would have a significant impact on Research, Development and Innovation. In an effort to develop such a strategy, bibliometrics played a main methodological role within the sphere of science. Scientific networks, collaboration and exchange patterns have been the spotlight in numerous research studies and conference discussions. The main reason these topics are becoming a focal point has been the premise that such types of knowledge exchanges ben‑ efit scientific progress in that they foster innovation, stimulate and enable the flow of ideas between scientists in different institutions (Moed and Halevi 2014; Armijo-Olivo 2012). In addition to the actual scientific growth, there have
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