Based on the affiliation of active authors in the Scopus database, this indicator aims to measure the international mobility of researchers. (‘Active authors’ are those who have produced 10+ papers over the previous ten years, and at least one paper in the previous five years, and those who have produced a minimum of four papers in the last five years.)
This indicator uses affiliation history in the published papers of active author as a means of determining international mobility. Authors are considered internationally mobile where they have publications with affiliations in at least two countries. A value of 1 indicates that the proportion of women who are internationally mobile is equal to the proportion of men, while a value of less than 1 shows a lower proportion of women who are internationally mobile and a value of more than 1 shows a higher proportion of women who are internationally mobile compared to men.
This indicator is a proxy for the indicator presented in She Figures 2021, ‘International mobility rates (%) of higher education sector (HES) researchers in post-PhD career stages, by sex’, which can no longer be produced due to the discontinuation of the MORE Survey. Data between the two indicators are not directly comparable.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |