Researchers’ transfer network reveals the evolution of national science and technology capabilities

Abstract

Science and technology capability refers to the comprehensive capability of all factors that affect the development of science and technology, mainly referring to human and material factors related to science and technology, among which human resources are the foundation and driving force. Therefore, researchers become a unique research perspective for the evaluation of national science and technology capabilities. Taking the integrated circuit field as the analysis case, this article proposed a researchers’ transfer network model based on the online open source literature database. From the published literature information, the model obtains the researchers’ transfer network that has a core-periphery structure. The core nodes are the European Union, the United States, China, etc., and these nodes are the most closely connected. A country/region role evolution model is also proposed, which reveals the characteristics of the role evolution of the European Union, the United States, China, and other countries from the perspective of researchers’ transfer, especially their transfer between countries.