The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research … experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …

This paper investigates the factors that influence the international mobility of research scientists using a new … measure of mobility derived from changes in affiliations reported by publishing scientists in a major global index of … scholarly publications over the period 1996-2011. Using a gravity-based empirical framework, our research shows that measures of …