The contingent nature of brain gain and brain circulation: Their foreign context and the impact of return scientists on the scientific community in their country of origin

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 893-913

  Velema, Thijs A ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

High skill labor migration; Return migration; Scientific development; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869185266     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0751-4     Document Type: Article

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