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WHERE DO UNIVERSITIES RECRUIT RESEARCHERS? 2020         Box 2: Useful information to bear in mind • The sample includes only researchers who published their first article before 2013, i.e. in 2018, they had been publishing for at least six years, in order to prevent current doctoral students from driving the results. • For the sake of robustness, only results based on data available for at least 30 researchers in the respective university and discipline are reported. Records with insufficient data are marked ‘n.a.’. • Only disciplines that are sufficiently large in most of the universities in the study are included. Social sciences have been aggregated into a single category to achieve the critical mass. • Because not all disciplines are covered, it could be misleading to derive (and compare) total figures at the university level. • More universities and disciplines have not been included, because processing of the data is time-consuming. Scaling up the analysis is planned in the future. • Theanalysisissolelybasedonauthoraffiliationsinpublishedarticles.Wedonotknow the extent to which the researcher is really based at that university or the parameters of her contract. • The study builds on the assumption that researchers acknowledge affiliation to the university in which they did the research in their published articles. • The results reflect only affiliations in initial and current articles, not those related to where the researcher was based in the meantime. • Names of initial affiliations have been carefully cleaned, harmonized and compared with the current affiliations, but some connections may have slipped through the cracks, resulting in overestimation of the extent of hiring researchers originally from outside. • Researchers are fully counted in each discipline to which a journal is assigned in which they published in 2018. • Only journal articles are taken into account, and not other document types such as editorials, reviews, conference papers or book chapters. 12 


































































































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