This study examines the contribution of Chinese diaspora researchers – those born in China but working outside the … country – to China's catching up in global science to become a world leader in research publications and citations. Using a … networks that connect scientific discovery in China with the rest of the world. In co-authorship, diaspora researchers are over …

generation and diffusion. Countries and their research organizations and individual scientists need to be embedded in this … science: research collaboration and scientist mobility. We thereby focus on the motives and determinants to collaborate or …