International student mobility spurs scientific research on foreign countries: Evidence from international students studying in China |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Geography & Ocean Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R.China;2. Institute of Education, Nanjing University, Nanjing, P.R.China;1. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, Stuttgart 70569 Germany;2. CAS, A Division of the American Chemical Society, Custom Services, 2540 Olentangy River Road-1505, Columbus, OH 43202, USA;3. Science Policy and Strategy Department, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, Munich 80539 Germany;1. Department of Mathematics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;2. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, USA;3. Graduate Program in Data Science, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, USA;4. Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;1. Science Policy and Strategy Department Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539 Munich, Germany;2. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Department of Sociology, Konradstr. 6, 80801 Munich, Germany;1. Department of Library and Information Science Education, College of Education, Kongju National University, Gongju 32588, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Library and Information Science, Hannam University, Daejeon 34430, Republic of Korea;3. Department of Library and Information Science, Cheongju University, Cheongju 28503, Republic of Korea;4. Department of Library and Information Science, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Republic of Korea;1. Department of Physics, University of Thessaloniki, and Center of Complex Systems, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece;2. Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel;1. Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics 20 Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation;2. American Association for the Advancement of Science 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington, 20005, DC, USA |
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| Abstract: | The international mobility of scientists fosters knowledge exchange by increasing cross-country research collaboration between destination and origin countries. To the best of our knowledge, the mobility of international students, most of whom are not scientists, has not been linked to knowledge production involving both destination and origin countries in previous studies. The question of this research is whether international student mobility (ISM) contributes to science in China. To address this research question, we determined the annual number of international students studying in Chinese universities from 1999 to 2018, from the Concise Statistics of International Students in China compiled by the International Exchange Department of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and corresponding publication records including the source country names in the titles, from the Web of Science database of Clarivate Analytics. We then used the fixed-effects negative binomial model and instrumental variable approach to explore the linkage from ISM to knowledge production and found that ISM led to the destination countries’ scientific research on foreign countries. The findings shed light on the discussion of the global mobility of talent, and contribute to the understanding of ISM's influence on science, the measurement of which is promising in future studies. |
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