Researcher’s mobility in location and disciplinary focus: Bibliometric data utilization for Finland-based scholars for the duration of 2008-2018

Scientific discoveries are a result of global collaboration and often collaborations are multidisciplinary in nature. A core element of these successful collaborations will materialize trough researcher’s mobility in location and disciplinary focus. Researchers experience a numerous opportunity to practice locational mobility throughout their carriers as well as conducting a multidisciplinary research. Both changes have short- and long-term impact on individual researchers and science, technology and innovation system which has immediate interest for public and private research and development funding mechanisms. With advancement in data science tools and increasing of computational capacities, we are able to utilize bibliometric data for calculating researcher’s mobility on location and disciplinary focus over time. We looked at Finland as a case and by incorporating the analytical procedures, the processed data is capable to deliver insights for researchers mobilities between cities over time as well as disciplinary change over the course of time.

The dataset is consists of identified Finland based scholar’s mobility (location and disciplinary focus) over the courses of 10 years (2008-2018). Clarivate Analytics’s Web of Science (WoS) is selected as the data source for compiling the dataset. We consider the WoS to be a more appropriate database for our compiled data set for several reasons. First, as a global citation database and comprehensive platform with over 159 million records and over 1.7 billion cited references, the WoS can track ideas across time and disciplines. Second, comparative and longitudinal studies have shown a consistent and reasonably stable quarterly growth for both publications and citations in the WoS Core Collection database. Third, WoS data structure is favorable so to consistently construct the scholars change of affiliation and subject category focus much accurately compared to other indexing services.

We used the ”Advance Search” in the Web of Science and selected Core Collection database in order to search for all publication types between 2008-2018 where at least one of the authors has been based in Finland. From the raw bibliometric data retrieved, certain procedure took place so analyze, filter, clean and process the change of authors’ affiliation over their career trajectory also picking up the occasions where disciplinary focus has changed in authors publication profile.

This dataset can reveal hidden dynamics on scholar’s career progress. The dataset (if) combined with funding information and mission-oriented policies can evaluate the long-lasting effect of instruments in mobilizing researchers, steering research agendas and consequently the resulted impacts. The final data set is provided in four individual XLSX files.

科学发现源于全球性的协作，此类合作往往具有跨学科的属性。这些成功合作的核心要素将体现在研究人员在地理位置和学科领域的流动性上。研究人员在其职业生涯中拥有众多实践地理位置流动性的机会，并从事跨学科研究。这两种变化对个人研究人员以及科学技术与创新能力体系产生短期与长期的影响，这些影响对于公众和私人研究与发展资助机制具有直接的利益。随着数据科学工具的进步和计算能力的提升，我们得以利用文献计量数据来计算研究人员在地理位置和学科领域的流动性变化。以芬兰为案例，通过整合分析程序，处理后的数据能够为研究人员在一段时间内城市间的流动性变化以及学科领域的变化提供洞见。该数据集包含芬兰学者在2008年至2018年间的流动性（地理位置和学科领域）数据，共计10年。Clarivate Analytics的Web of Science（WoS）被选为数据源，以编纂该数据集。我们选择WoS作为我们编纂数据集的数据库，原因有以下几点：首先，作为拥有超过1.59亿条记录和超过17亿次引用的综合全球引用数据库平台，WoS能够追踪时间和学科领域中的思想。其次，比较性和纵向研究已表明，WoS核心收藏数据库中的出版物和引用量持续且相对稳定地季度增长。第三，WoS的数据结构有利于更准确地构建学者学术隶属关系和学科领域关注的变更，相较于其他索引服务具有优势。我们利用Web of Science中的“高级搜索”功能，选择核心收藏数据库，以搜索2008年至2018年间至少有一位作者基于芬兰的所有出版物类型。从检索到的原始文献计量数据中，经过分析、筛选、清洗和处理，我们提取了作者在其职业生涯轨迹中学术隶属关系的变更，以及在其出版物中学科领域变更的场合。该数据集能够揭示学者职业生涯进展中的潜在动态。该数据集（如果）与资助信息和目标导向的政策相结合，可以评估调动研究人员、引导研究议程以及最终结果影响的长期效应。最终数据集以四个单独的XLSX文件提供。