Global training and the collaborative structure of elite U.S. science
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| author | Yan, Erjia Ni, Chaoqun Zheng, Xiang |
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| contents | Globally trained scientific labor is a substantial component of U.S. universities, yet the organizational mechanisms linking foreign degree training to elite scientific output remain poorly understood. We link comprehensive U.S. faculty rosters to more than 12 million OpenAlex-indexed faculty-publication observations from 2011 to 2020. Faculty with non-U.S. degrees constitute one-tenth of the U.S. professoriate but account for larger shares of total publications and top-1% cited papers. This overrepresentation is concentrated in high-output disciplinary domains and research-intensive institutions. Within institution - domain - rank - year strata, however, differences in top-1% output, FWCI, and corresponding-author share attenuate sharply, indicating that much of the aggregate pattern reflects organizational placement rather than large within-context citation advantages. Collaboration structure further differentiates foreign- and domestically trained faculty: mixed domestic-foreign faculty teams exhibit substantially elevated elite-output rates, and the association attenuates strongly after accounting for team size, suggesting that collaboration scale is central to the pattern. Topic-distinctiveness analyses show little evidence that foreign-degree faculty occupy unusually rare research niches. Overall, foreign-degree training is best understood less as an individual productivity attribute than as a structural feature of elite U.S. science, operating through institutional concentration and collaborative integration. |
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| spellingShingle | Global training and the collaborative structure of elite U.S. science Yan, Erjia Ni, Chaoqun Zheng, Xiang Digital Libraries Globally trained scientific labor is a substantial component of U.S. universities, yet the organizational mechanisms linking foreign degree training to elite scientific output remain poorly understood. We link comprehensive U.S. faculty rosters to more than 12 million OpenAlex-indexed faculty-publication observations from 2011 to 2020. Faculty with non-U.S. degrees constitute one-tenth of the U.S. professoriate but account for larger shares of total publications and top-1% cited papers. This overrepresentation is concentrated in high-output disciplinary domains and research-intensive institutions. Within institution - domain - rank - year strata, however, differences in top-1% output, FWCI, and corresponding-author share attenuate sharply, indicating that much of the aggregate pattern reflects organizational placement rather than large within-context citation advantages. Collaboration structure further differentiates foreign- and domestically trained faculty: mixed domestic-foreign faculty teams exhibit substantially elevated elite-output rates, and the association attenuates strongly after accounting for team size, suggesting that collaboration scale is central to the pattern. Topic-distinctiveness analyses show little evidence that foreign-degree faculty occupy unusually rare research niches. Overall, foreign-degree training is best understood less as an individual productivity attribute than as a structural feature of elite U.S. science, operating through institutional concentration and collaborative integration. |
| title | Global training and the collaborative structure of elite U.S. science |
| topic | Digital Libraries |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18715 |