Scientometrics
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Volume 91: Issue 1
International mobility of researchers in robotics, computer vision and electron devices: A quantitative and comparative analysis
Authors:
Takao Furukawa Science and Technology Foresight Center, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, 16th Floor, Central Government Building No. 7. East Wing, 3-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chuyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan shirakawa@nistep.go.jpokuwada@nistep.go.jp

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Nobuyuki Shirakawa Science and Technology Foresight Center, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, 16th Floor, Central Government Building No. 7. East Wing, 3-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chuyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan shirakawa@nistep.go.jpokuwada@nistep.go.jp

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Kumi Okuwada Science and Technology Foresight Center, National Institute of Science and Technology Policy, 16th Floor, Central Government Building No. 7. East Wing, 3-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chuyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0013, Japan shirakawa@nistep.go.jpokuwada@nistep.go.jp

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Kazuya Sasaki Faculty of Education, Utsunomiya University, 350 Minemachi, Utsunomiya, Tochigi 321-8505, Japan sasakika@cc.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp

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185–202
Online Publication Date:
02 Nov 2011
Publication Date:
01 Apr 2012
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-011-0545-0
Keywords:
International mobility; Quantitative analysis; Flow pattern of researchers; Institutional-level analysis
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Abstract

We investigated author information in scientific articles by approximately 7,000 researchers for a quantitative analysis of researchers’ international mobility. From top journals, we traced the movements of more than 2,200 researchers in the research domains of robotics, computer vision and electron devices. We categorized countries’ characteristics for the balance between the inflow and the outflow of researchers moving internationally. Flow patterns of international mobility confirm that the United States, China and India exhibit the greatest global flows of researchers, with Singapore and Hong Kong attracting remarkable numbers of researchers from other countries. International mobility focusing on institutions reveals that universities in Singapore receive as many foreign researchers as do research universities in the United States. Furthermore, firms and international collaborative research institutes act as alternative receivers to the universities in the electron devices research domain.

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