Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Can first or last name uniqueness help to identify diaspora researchers from any country? Cover

Can first or last name uniqueness help to identify diaspora researchers from any country?

By: Mike Thelwall  
Open Access
|Jun 2023

References

  1. Ambekar, A., Ward, C., Mohammed, J., Male, S., & Skiena, S. (2009). Name-ethnicity classification from open sources. In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 49-58).
  2. Bassecoulard, E., Ramanana-Rahary, S. U. Z. Y., & Zitt, M. (2003). Ultra-periphery of science: three contrasting views of the Malagasy contribution–in terms of domestic research, the diaspora, specific topics. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Scientometrics & Informetrics. Beijing.
  3. Baumert, P., Cenni, F., & Antonkine, M. L. (2022). Ten simple rules for a successful EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral (MSCA) fellowship application. PLOS Computational Biology, 18(8), e1010371.
  4. Bojica, A. M., Olmos-Peñuela, J., & Alegre, J. (2022). A cross-country configurational approach to international academic mobility: exploring mobility effects on academics’ career progression in EU countries. Higher Education, 1–25.
  5. Børing, P., Flanagan, K., Gagliardi, D., Kaloudis, A., & Karakasidou, A. (2015). International mobility: Findings from a survey of researchers in the EU. Science and Public Policy, 42(6), 811–826.
  6. Edwards, R. (2006). What’s in a name? Chinese learners and the practice of adopting ‘English’ names. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 19(1), 90–103.
  7. Flanagan, K. (2015). International mobility of scientists. The handbook of global science, technology, and innovation, 364–381.
  8. Franzoni, C., Scellato, G., & Stephan, P. (2012). Foreign born scientists: Mobility patterns for sixteen countries (No. w18067). National Bureau of Economic Research.
  9. Fryer Jr, R. G., & Levitt, S. D. (2004). The causes and consequences of distinctively black names. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119(3), 767–805.
  10. Gelb, S., Kalantaryan, S., McMahon, S., & Perez-Fernandez, M. (2021). Diaspora finance for development: From remittances to investment. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
  11. Ioannidis, J., Koutsioumpa, C., Vakka, A., Agoranos, G., Mantsiou, C., Drekolia, M. K., & Baas, J. (2021). Comprehensive mapping of local and diaspora scientists: A database and analysis of 63,951 Greek scientists. Quantitative Science Studies, 2(2), 733–752.
  12. Karaulova, M., Gök, A., & Shapira, P. (2019). Identifying author heritage using surname data: An application for Russian surnames. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(5), 488–498.
  13. Kasa, R. (2022). The profile of Latvian global graduates as ‘liquid migrants’. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–14.
  14. Lakha, F., Gorman, D. R., & Mateos, P. (2011). Name analysis to classify populations by ethnicity in public health: validation of Onomap in Scotland. Public Health, 125(10), 688–696.
  15. Lewison, G., & Kundra, R. (2008). The internal migration of Indian scientists, 1981–2003, from an analysis of surnames. Scientometrics, 75(1), 21–35.
  16. Li, T. E., McKercher, B., & Chan, E. T. H. (2020). Towards a conceptual framework for diaspora tourism. Current Issues in Tourism, 23(17), 2109–2126.
  17. Liu, Y., Namatovu, R., Karadeniz, E. E., Schøtt, T., & Minto-Coy, I. D. (2020). Entrepreneurs’ transnational networks channelling exports: diasporas from Central & South America, Sub-Sahara Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Asia, and the European culture region. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46(10), 2106–2125.
  18. Marmolejo-Leyva, R., Perez-Angon, M. A., & Russell, J. M. (2015). Mobility and international collaboration: case of the Mexican scientific diaspora. PloS One, 10(6), e0126720.
  19. Martín-Martín, A., Thelwall, M., Orduna-Malea, E., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2021). Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations. Scientometrics, 126(1), 871–906.
  20. Mateos, P. (2007). A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and their potential in population studies. Population, Space and Place, 13(4), 243–263.
  21. Mateos, P., Longley, P. A., & O’Sullivan, D. (2011). Ethnicity and population structure in personal naming networks. PloS One, 6(9), e22943.
  22. McAuliffe, M. & Triandafyllidou, A. (eds.), (2021). World Migration Report 2022. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.
  23. Mendoza, C., Staniscia, B., & Ortiz, A. (2020). “Knowledge migrants” or “economic migrants”? Patterns of academic mobility and migration from Southern Europe to Mexico. Population, Space and Place, 26(2), e2282.
  24. Robinson-Garcia, N., Noyons, E., & Costas, R. (2015). Can we track the geography of surnames based on bibliographic data? arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05443. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1503.05443.
  25. Roe, P., Lewison, G., & Webber, R. (2014). The sex and ethnicity or national origins of researchers in astronomy and oncology in four countries, 2006–2007 and 2011–2012. Scientometrics, 100, 287–296.
  26. Sanliturk (2023). Global patterns of migration of scholars with economic development. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.221793712.
  27. Schäfer, G., & El Dali, Y. (2021). Trajectories into foreign higher education systems for doctoral candidates from Germany: a comparative study of France and the Netherlands. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51(2), 298–314.
  28. Shah, B. R., Chiu, M., Amin, S., Ramani, M., Sadry, S., & Tu, J. V. (2010). Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation study. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 10(1), 1–8.
  29. Siekierski, P., Lima, M. C., Borini, F. M., & Pereira, R. M. (2018). International academic mobility and innovation: a literature review. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Management Research, 6(3/4), 285-298. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-04-2018–0019
  30. Teichler, U. (2015). Academic mobility and migration: What we know and what we do not know. European Review, 23(S1), S6–S37.
  31. Tremblay, K. (2005). Academic mobility and immigration. Journal of Studies in International Education, 9(3), 196–228.
  32. Xie, Q. N., & Freeman, R. B. (2020). The Contribution of Chinese Diaspora Researchers to Global Science and China’s Catching Up in Scientific Research (No. w27169). National Bureau of Economic Research.
  33. Ye, J. T., Han, S. C., Hu, Y. F., Coskun, B., Liu, M. Z., Qin, H., & Skiena, S. (2017). Nationality classification using name embeddings. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp. 1897-1906).
  34. Zhao, Z. Y., Bu, Y., Kang, L. L., Min, C., Bian, Y. Y., Tang, L., & Li, J. (2020). An investigation of the relationship between scientists’ mobility to/from China and their research performance. Journal of Informetrics, 14(2), 101037.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2023-0013 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 1 - 25
Submitted on: Jan 26, 2023
Accepted on: May 17, 2023
Published on: Jun 7, 2023
Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2023 Mike Thelwall, published by Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.