Lung cancer researchers, 2008-2013: their sex and ethnicity
Lung cancer researchers, 2008-2013: their sex and ethnicity
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-015-1785-1
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Sullivan, Richard
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作者：
Lewison, Grant;Roe, Philip;Sullivan, Richard
这篇论文描述了一个过程，通过这个过程，几乎所有在科学网（Web of Science, WoS）上发表论文的作者都可以根据他们的名字来确定他们的性别、种族或国家背景。研究人员将这些数据与两个包含姓氏和名字的大型数据库进行比较，以确定他们最有可能属于160个不同的族群。自2008年以来，WoS论文的作者都标有他们的地址，如果他们出现在论文上，许多人都有他们的名字，因此可以确定每个国家的劳动力构成。相反，可以找到特定种族群体成员的当前位置。这将显示一个国家“人才流失”的程度，如果有的话。主要结果显示了一个主题领域，除其他外，似乎大多数活跃于肺癌研究的印度裔研究人员都在美国工作。但东亚人（中国人、日本人和韩国人）倾向于留在他们的出生国。
This paper describes the process by which almost all authors of papers in the Web of Science (WoS) can be characterised by their sex and ethnicity or national background, based on their names. These are compared with two large databases of surnames and given names to determine to which of some 160 different ethnic groups they are most likely to belong. Since 2008 the authors of WoS papers are tagged with their addresses, and many have their given names if they appear on the paper, so the workforce composition of each country can be determined. Conversely, the current location of members of particular ethnic groups can be found. This will show the extent of a country's "brain drain", if any. Key results are shown for one subject area, and inter alia it appears that the majority of researchers of Indian origin who are active in lung cancer research are working in the USA. But East Asians (Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) tend to stay in their country of birth.