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Mobility and International Collaboration: Case of the Mexican Scientific Diaspora

We use a data set of Mexican researchers working abroad that are included in the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI). Our diaspora sample includes 479 researchers, most of them holding postdoctoral positions in mainly seven countries: USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Canada and B...

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Autores principales: Marmolejo-Leyva, Rafael, Perez-Angon, Miguel Angel, Russell, Jane M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26047501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126720
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description We use a data set of Mexican researchers working abroad that are included in the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI). Our diaspora sample includes 479 researchers, most of them holding postdoctoral positions in mainly seven countries: USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Canada and Brazil. Their research output and impact is explored in order to determine their patterns of production, mobility and scientific collaboration as compared with previous studies of the SNI researchers in the periods 1991–2001 and 2003–2009. Our findings confirm that mobility has a strong impact on their international scientific collaboration. We found no substantial influence among the researchers that got their PhD degrees abroad from those trained in Mexican universities. There are significant differences among the areas of knowledge studied: biological sciences, physics and engineering have better production and impact rates than mathematics, geosciences, medicine, agrosciences, chemistry, social sciences and humanities. We found a slight gender difference in research production but Mexican female scientists are underrepresented in our diaspora sample. These findings would have policy implications for the recently established program that will open new academic positions for young Mexican scientists.
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spelling pubmed-44578952015-06-09 Mobility and International Collaboration: Case of the Mexican Scientific Diaspora Marmolejo-Leyva, Rafael Perez-Angon, Miguel Angel Russell, Jane M. PLoS One Research Article We use a data set of Mexican researchers working abroad that are included in the Mexican National System of Researchers (SNI). Our diaspora sample includes 479 researchers, most of them holding postdoctoral positions in mainly seven countries: USA, Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Canada and Brazil. Their research output and impact is explored in order to determine their patterns of production, mobility and scientific collaboration as compared with previous studies of the SNI researchers in the periods 1991–2001 and 2003–2009. Our findings confirm that mobility has a strong impact on their international scientific collaboration. We found no substantial influence among the researchers that got their PhD degrees abroad from those trained in Mexican universities. There are significant differences among the areas of knowledge studied: biological sciences, physics and engineering have better production and impact rates than mathematics, geosciences, medicine, agrosciences, chemistry, social sciences and humanities. We found a slight gender difference in research production but Mexican female scientists are underrepresented in our diaspora sample. These findings would have policy implications for the recently established program that will open new academic positions for young Mexican scientists. Public Library of Science 2015-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4457895/ /pubmed/26047501 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126720 Text en © 2015 Marmolejo-Leyva et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_fullStr Mobility and International Collaboration: Case of the Mexican Scientific Diaspora
title_full_unstemmed Mobility and International Collaboration: Case of the Mexican Scientific Diaspora
title_short Mobility and International Collaboration: Case of the Mexican Scientific Diaspora
title_sort mobility and international collaboration: case of the mexican scientific diaspora
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4457895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26047501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126720
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