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Scientists have most impact when they're free to move

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An analysis of researchers' global mobility reveals that limiting the circulation of scholars will damage the scientific system, say Cassidy R. Sugimoto and colleagues.

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  1. Indiana University Bloomington, USA

    Cassidy R. Sugimoto

  2. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Cassidy R. Sugimoto

  3. social scientist and bibliometrics specialist at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Technical University of Valencia, Spain

    Nicolas Robinson-Garcia

  4. graduate student in informatics at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    Dakota S. Murray

  5. researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Alfredo Yegros-Yegros

  6. researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Rodrigo Costas

  7. the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Scientometrics and Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

    Rodrigo Costas

  8. associate professor of information science at the University of Montreal, Canada

    Vincent Larivière

  9. associate scientific director of the Observatory of Science and Technology, Montreal, Canada

    Vincent Larivière

  10. visiting professor at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Vincent Larivière

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Support for this research came from the Science of Science Innovation and Policy programme of the National Science Foundation in the United States (NSF #1561299) and a Juan de la Cierva-Formación grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

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Sugimoto, C., Robinson-Garcia, N., Murray, D. et al. Scientists have most impact when they're free to move. Nature 550, 29–31 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/550029a

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