Knowledge production increasingly relies on mobility. However, its role as a mechanism for knowledge recombination and dissemination remains largely unknown. Based on 1,244,080 Web of Science publications from 1,435,729 authors that we used to construct a panel dataset, we study the impact of inter-regional publishing and scientists' mobility in fostering the workforce composition of European countries during 2008-2017. Specifically, we collect information on scientists who have published in one region and then published elsewhere, and explore some determinants of regional and international mobility. Preliminary findings suggest that while talent pools of researchers are increasingly international, their movements seem to be steered by geographical structures. Future research will investigate the impact of mobility on the regional structure of scientific fields by accounting for the appearance and disappearance of research topics over time.

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学者流动性及其对欧洲地区知识生产者劳动力的影响

知识生产越来越依赖于流动性。但是，其作为知识重组和传播机制的作用在很大程度上仍然未知。基于我们用来构建面板数据集的1,435,729名作者的1,244,080个Web of Science出版物，我们研究了区域间出版和科学家的流动性对促进2008-2017年欧洲国家劳动力构成的影响。具体来说，我们收集有关在一个地区发表然后在其他地区发表的科学家的信息，并探讨了决定区域和国际流动性的一些因素。初步发现表明，尽管研究人员的人才库日益国际化，但其流动似乎受到地理结构的控制。