Replication data and scripts for "Gender and regional differences in scientific mobility among academics identified as potentially talented and a control group"

Identifying talented academics worldwide using publication data has been proven to be successful with other performance measures based on citations and funding data in previous studies. We investigate the scientific mobility among academics as an additional performance measure. We reconstruct the mobility trajectory of potentially talented researchers throughout their scientific careers to study whether they have a different propensity to be mobile than a control group. Since the researchers’ gender may play an important role in scientific careers, we delve into gender differences. Our results indicate that potentially talented researchers have a higher propensity to be mobile – more so among male than female talented researchers. Women are overrepresented among non-mobile authors in the control group. The proposed method for identifying potentially talented individuals seems to select researchers who are more successful in their academic careers than the researchers in the control group. The results agree with the findings of previous studies based on citation and funding data. However, higher mobility is a privilege. Specific groups, such as those with fewer caring responsibilities and visa restrictions, could have better access to this privilege. Further research on the trade-off between higher mobility's potential advantages and disadvantages as a strategy to build a successful academic career and unequal access to mobility is necessary.

全球范围内，借助出版物数据识别杰出学者已被证明与基于引文和资助数据的其他绩效评估方法同样有效。本研究旨在探讨学者之间的科学流动性，并将其作为额外的绩效评估指标。我们重建了潜在杰出研究者在整个科学生涯中的流动性轨迹，以探究他们相较于对照组是否具有更高的流动性倾向。鉴于研究者的性别可能在科学生涯中扮演着至关重要的角色，我们对性别差异进行了深入分析。结果显示，潜在杰出研究者具有较高的流动性倾向——尤其是在男性杰出研究者中更为明显。在对照组中，女性研究者更多地出现在非流动性作者群体中。所提出识别潜在杰出个体的方法似乎倾向于选择那些在学术生涯中比对照组研究者更为成功的学者。研究结果与基于引文和资助数据的前期研究结论相一致。然而，高流动性是一种特权。特定的群体，如那些承担较少照护责任和签证限制的人群，可能更有机会获得这一特权。进一步研究高流动性可能的优势与劣势作为构建成功学术生涯的策略，以及流动性获取的不平等性，显得尤为必要。