Analysis of factors affecting scientific migration move and distance by academic age, migrant type, and country: Migrant researchers in the field of business and management
Journal
Journal of Informetrics
Journal Volume
17
Journal Issue
1
Date Issued
2023-02-01
Author(s)
Chang, Ying Han
Abstract
This study examines the relationship between migration move and migration distance among migrant researchers on the basis of academic age, migrant type, and country; it also explores migration across continents and regions. The bibliographic data of 916 migrant researchers in the field of business/management in China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are collected from the Web of Science; Scopus author IDs are used to disambiguate the cross-database data. The Hamiltonian path is used to process the bibliographic data, construct the migration trajectories of individual authors across publications, and identify their locations. The overall results reveal that the three variables (i.e., academic age, migrant type, and country) have significant effects on migration moves. The main migration period for researchers is between the academic age of 3 and 13 years, then the migration rates decrease after the age of 14 years. Taiwan has a higher migration rate (27.15%) than China, Japan, and South Korea. The migration distance of migrant researchers is similar across academic age groups that are at the start of their careers. We further discovered that both cross-continental migration rate and cross-regional migration rate are low (<60%), indicating that researchers are less likely to perform long-distance migrations.
Subjects
Bibliometrics | Business & management | Migrant researchers | Scientific migration
SDGs
Type
journal article