e.g. part-time positions to attract leading foreign scholars (Xin and Normile, 2006; Bhattacharjee, 2011)
institutions/researchers: maintain links
Background
Xin and Normile, Science, 313, 22 Sep 2006 Bhattacharjee, Science, 334, 9 Dec 2011
Background
Combined, part-time researcher positions will allow mobility and direct knowledge transfer and cooperation and may link institutions,
disciplines, countries and sectors (industry/academia/public).
ESF - Science Policy Briefing - 2013: New Concepts
of Researcher Mobility
NISTEP endeavors to utilize human resources from foreign countries. As part
of these endeavors, NISTEP carries out joint research with foreign researchers, accepts foreign students, and accepts
international affiliated fellows.
NISTEP - About Pamphlet - 2010
Japan - Germany - UK
comparable in terms of academic output (BIS 2013; NISTEP 2014) and in innovative and technological capacity (WEF 2014)
differ in terms of
governance of academia (e.g. autonomy, staff structures and career trajectories) (Teichler et al. 2013)
importance of the academic research sector compared to business and government research (OECD, 2014)
internationalisation (e.g. higher shares of foreign born staff in the UK) (Franzoni et al. 2012)
Questions on secondary affiliations (past and present)
Data
Data
Trends in multiple affiliations
Statement of affiliations on publications
Share of respondents with multiple affiliations
Institutional incentives
Naming of affiliations
Incentives to name affiliation
Type of organisations
Organisation of multiple affiliations
Contractual arrangements at main external affiliation
Paid contracts by organisation type
Paid contracts by work content
Individual incentives
Career motivations
by contract type
by seniority
Recap
Survey
- shows that publications are imperfect measure for MA but confirm some of the observations
- authors do not report all affiliations. Selection based on journal, funder, coauthors, etc?
Why and wherefore
researchers: tap into new networks/ gain additional resources
we saw evidence for this
weakend academic employment market: seek affiliations to increase job prospects
institutions: assessment / competition
some indication that this may be true
institutions/researchers: maintain links
not presented today, but 26% of affiliations intitated through prior employment
Multiple affiliations and performance
Conclusions / Limitations / Future Work
MA and research quality
very sensitive to measure, but we can see differential effects for different countries
Engagement motivations have weak effect on publication impact
Results suggest that networks raises publication quality
Why Multiple Affiliations? Is Co-authoship not enough if goal is to overcome knowledge burden?
Does prestige of organisaton or what they offer not matter?
Initial higher citations - but what about the long run? Do we measure visibility effect instead of quality?
Is Institutions' push for MA the real driver?
Cross-sectional data
Causality cannot be known
Longitudinal study of MA and publication performance