4 papers
Foreign-trained faculty and the collaborative organization of high-impact U.S. science
Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni, Xiang Zheng +1
Internationally mobile scientists are central to national research and innovation systems. We link faculty rosters from the Academic Analytics Research Center to OpenAlex publicati…
Global training and the collaborative structure of elite U.S. science
Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni, Xiang Zheng
Globally trained scientific labor is a substantial component of U.S. universities, yet the organizational mechanisms linking foreign degree training to elite scientific output rema…
Faculty mobility reallocates research capacity within persistent institutional hierarchies
Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni
Faculty mobility is often understood as a mechanism through which universities redistribute scientific talent and potentially improve research performance. Yet the system-level str…
AI-assisted writing and the reorganization of scientific knowledge
Erjia Yan, Chaoqun Ni
Generative AI systems such as ChatGPT are increasingly used in scientific writing, yet their broader implications for the organization of scientific knowledge remain unclear. We ex…