The international mobility of academics is one of the key mechanisms through which university internationalization occurs; yet, fewer studies have investigated the impact that it has on academics’ teaching, research, and service. This study investigates the relationship between short-term international mobility and changes in academics’ research networks. Using bibliometric data, research collaboration patterns of 303 U.S. Fulbright academics were analyzed to determine with which academics abroad they are more likely to collaborate and which factors influence the likelihood of research collaboration. The findings demonstrate a positive relationship between short-term international mobility and subsequent research collaborations between mobile academics and host institution and host country academics, but co-publications were more likely with host institution as opposed to host country academics. The results also indicate that this positive relationship is mediated by academics’ pre-existing networks, characteristics of the abroad experience, and academics’ sociodemographic characteristics.

学者的国际流动性是大学国际化的关键机制之一。但是，很少有研究调查其对学者的教学，研究和服务的影响。这项研究调查了短期国际流动性与学者研究网络变化之间的关系。使用文献计量数据，对303名美国富布赖特（Fulbright）学者的研究合作模式进行了分析，以确定他们更可能与国外的学者合作，以及哪些因素影响研究合作的可能性。研究结果表明，短期国际流动性与流动学者与所在机构和所在国家/地区的学者之间的后续研究合作之间存在正相关关系，但是与东道国学者相比，与东道国机构合作出版的可能性更大。结果还表明，这种正相关关系是由学者的既有网络，国外经验的特征以及学者的社会人口学特征所调节的。