Studying and working abroad, internationally mobile scientists meet foreign scientists and become carriers of knowledge. The benefits of international scientific mobility might extend to nonmobile colleagues who collaborate with mobile scientists. In this paper, we investigate the role played by...

Discourses on convergent technologies claim that fields such as bionanotechnology are interdisciplinary and therefore require specific organisational forms (e.g. laboratories with researchers from many different disciplinary backgrounds). However, empirical investigations have challenged the...

In this article, we develop a method that uses altmetric data to analyse researchers' interactions, as a way of mapping the contexts of potential societal impact. In the face of an increasing policy demand for quantitative methodologies to assess societal impact, social media data (altmetrics)...