Reference : Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research Universi...
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Sociology & social sciences
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Education & instruction
Educational Sciences
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54322
Game of Brains: Examining Researcher Brain Gain and Brain Drain and Research University Policy
English
Fu, Yuan Chih [National Taipei University of Technology]
Moradel Vasquez, Juan Jose mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC) >]
Macasaet, Bea Treena mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC) >]
Hou, Angela Yung Chi [National Chengchi University]
Powell, Justin J W mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Social Sciences (DSOC) >]
2023
Higher Education Policy
Palgrave Macmillan
36
Yes
International
0952-8733
1740-3863
London
United Kingdom
[en] higher education policy ; research university ; excellence initiative ; Scientific migration ; talent competition ; Taiwan
[en] We leverage a rich bibliometric dataset on Taiwanese academia to explore scientific migration patterns. We investigate the movement and productivity of 21,051 highly active researchers who served in Taiwanese higher education institutions based on 30 years’ worth of publication and affiliation records from 1991 to 2020. The analysis shows evidence of brain drain in Taiwan since the 2010s, with the U.S. being both the biggest source of inbound researchers to Taiwan and top destination for researchers emigrating from Taiwan. China comes a close second to the U.S. as the top destination for outbound scholars. We also study how Taiwan’s universities recruited talent after the country adopted the 2005 excellence initiative and confirm the converging number of scholars recruited by World Class Universities (WCUs) and non-WCUs as WCUs, surprisingly, exhibit a dramatic decrease in new recruits. Our evidence uncovers that inbound scholars, after their move, are more productive than non-mobile colleagues; however, this effect declines over time. We discuss implications for the study of excellence initiatives and mechanisms of talent circulation that greatly impact research production and research university development.
Department of Social Sciences
Researchers ; Professionals ; Students
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54322

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