ERIC Number: EJ1440324
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Oct
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-1598-1037
EISSN: EISSN-1876-407X
Determinants of Japanese-Trained Chinese PhDs' Academic Career Attainments
Shuoyang Meng; Wenqin Shen
Asia Pacific Education Review, v25 n4 p925-937 2024
The Chinese government has been actively recruiting foreign-trained Chinese scholars to return to China since the Chinese brain drain began. Japan is among the most popular destinations for Chinese scholars seeking to receive doctoral training. This study explores the factors contributing to the stratification of Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs' academic career attainments using the Mertonian norm of universalism. The results indicate that the norm of universalism can partly explain the stratification of Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs. The reason for this is that their higher pre-graduation productivity enhances the chance that Japanese-trained Chinese PhDs have of obtaining an academic position at a top university in China. In addition to pre-graduation academic productivity, other factors, including the prestige of the university attended, the duration of the academic sojourn in Japan, and the ethnicity of the supervisor influence employment outcomes.
Descriptors: Asians, Foreign Students, Doctoral Programs, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Employment Opportunities, Brain Drain, Educational Attainment, Productivity, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Educational Quality, Universities, Ethnicity, Outcomes of Education, Supervisors, Doctoral Degrees, Faculty Recruitment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Japan; China
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