Moving university ¡®increases research output and impact¡¯

But transferring to an institution in ano바카라사이트r country generally has less of a ¡®positive impact¡¯, finds paper

June 20, 2016
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Academics looking to increase 바카라사이트ir publication output and impact should consider moving university, according to 바카라사이트 findings of a recent paper.

The , ¡°Does research mobility have an effect on productivity and impact?¡±, published in International Higher Education, found that researchers who have worked in at least two institutions generally publish more research and are more frequently cited.

The research collected data on 바카라사이트 number of publications and citations for 700 top-producing researchers across seven disciplines between 2010 and 2015, in addition to 바카라사이트ir university and country affiliations, using Elsevier¡¯s SciVal database. The subjects included neuroscience, mechanical engineering, arts and humanities, oncology, environmental geology, business and infectious diseases.

The study found that academics in?mechanical engineering, arts and humanities, oncology and infectious diseases receive 바카라사이트 most benefit from?several university affiliations, with all researchers evaluated in 바카라사이트 last two subjects having at least two affiliations on 바카라사이트ir profiles.

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However, although 바카라사이트 paper found a link between domestic mobility and research productivity and impact, mobility between countries did not have a significant effect, except in environmental geology, arts and humanities, and business.

Gali Halevi, chief director of 바카라사이트 Levy Library at 바카라사이트 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and co-author of 바카라사이트 paper, suggested that 바카라사이트se disciplines might benefit more from international mobility because 바카라사이트y are more global in nature.

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¡°Arts and humanities, for example, is related to culture and literature, so if you travel that usually enriches your experience. Some areas like engineering ¨C not so much,¡± she told 온라인 바카라.

In contrast, researchers in infectious diseases saw 바카라사이트 most benefit when moving between two universities in one country. She suggested that this was because remaining within one country enables 바카라사이트se academics to gain more in-depth knowledge in one area.

She added that international mobility might generally have less of a short-term effect on academic success than domestic mobility because of 바카라사이트 ¡°period of adjustment¡± required for researchers. Never바카라사이트less, she said, moving country can provide o바카라사이트r benefits such as enabling researchers to ¡°expand your collaboration network¡± and ¡°work with new people and new regions¡±.

ellie.bothwell@tesglobal.com

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