Mobility of scientist: The comparative analysis of Russia, China, India

The paper is based on research “Mobility of scientists as the Mechanism of Russia’s Integration Into the World Scientist Community”, which has been caring out by the Center for Sociology of Science and Science Studies of IHST of RAS.

Nowadays, the problems of international mobility as a factor in the emergence of the joint scientist space, in internationalization of science and scientific activity have become ever more significant.

Thanks to the migration mobility, research activity has been under constant renovation which provides the cutting-edge research with specialists needed. Mobility helps to supply researchers to new scientific fields as well as to facilitate cooperation between scientists from different disciplines and from various regions and countries. Mobility helps to set up multinational teams and networks and for them to work. Mobility is a tool of optimizing results of scientific research.

Multipolarity of modern science is confirmed by active participation in the global division of labor of the countries like China, India, Brazil, Mexico and others.

On the whole, the scientist mobility in Russia is much lower than in the West, China and India.

The paper will look at new approaches to identifying the basic theoretical assumptions about the notion of mobility, define the types of scientist mobility in the light of current tendencies in science, analyze how the international mobility influences the development of modern science in Russia, India, China and the new division of the global scientific labor.