A law of motion: scientists follow the money

“The world’s leading scientists are increasingly mobile but those who migrate are not necessarily more productive than their stay-at-home colleagues. Research led by Andrew Oswald, professor of economics at the University of Warwick, says that nearly half the world’s most-cited physicists work outside the country of their birth, with the majority migrating to the US early in their career …” (more)

[Times Higher Education, 30 July]

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