Collaboration Cosmopolitanism and Scientific and Technical Human Capital: Implications for Women and Underrepresented Minorities

这项研究提出了这样一个问题：“STEM的职业道路是什么导致更多样化和国际化的研究合作？”这个问题很重要，因为以前的研究发现，更大的合作者多样性和世界主义(例如，来自不同机构、不同领域或不同国家的合作者)与STEM研究人员的出版生产率和研究能力的发展呈正相关。它通过研究与提高研究和出版生产率相关的因素，以及考虑对国家STEM劳动力的健康和福祉至关重要的各种额外的职业成功指标，直接为NSF促进科学进步的使命做出贡献。我们在研究中将种族和性别作为关键维度，因为之前的研究表明，由于与职业相关的社会资本和网络联系减少，女性和代表性不足的少数群体往往会有较少的多样性和世界性的合作模式。这项研究使用了2006年和2010年全国大学毕业生调查(NSCG)，考察了各种STEM工作人员(包括博士水平以及拥有学士和硕士学位的人)在一段时间内(2006-2010年)合作模式的变化。这项研究侧重于职业成功的六个不同衡量标准：团队与个人工作组织、受监督的员工数量、工作满意度、晋升、工资和技能提升。在每一个案例中，这项研究都提出了这样的问题：“研究合作者的多样性和世界主义如何影响成功？”

The research asks the question "What STEM career routes lead to more diverse and cosmopolitan research collaborations?" This question is important because previous research has found that greater collaborator diversity and cosmopolitanism (e.g. collaborators from different institutions, different fields, or different countries) is positively related to publishing productivity and development of research capabilities among STEM researchers. The contributes directly to the NSF mission to promote the progress of science by studying factors related to enhancing increased research and publishing productivity, as well as considering a variety of additional career success indicators important to the health and well-being of the nation's STEM workforce. We examine race and gender as key dimensions in our study because previous work suggests that women and underrepresented minorities will tend to have less diverse and cosmopolitan collaboration patterns, due to diminished professionally relevant social capital and network contacts. The research uses the 2006 and 2010 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG) and examines changes in collaboration patterns over time (2006-2010) for a wide variety of STEM workers, including doctoral level but also persons with bachelors and masters' degrees. The study focuses on six distinct measures of career success: team versus individual work organization, number of employees supervised, job satisfaction, promotion, salary, and skill augmentation. In each case, the research asks "how does research collaborator diversity and cosmopolitanism affect success?"