Published in Physics World, 1 Jan 2010
If budgets are too tight at home, academics often flock abroad in what is known as a “brain drain”. But now a study by economists in the UK has revealed that elite physicists seem to be more mobile than ever. Having analysed the career paths of 158 of the world’s most highly cited physicists, Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick and colleagues found that half do not now work in the countries where they were born (Economic Journal 119 F231). […]
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