Continued collaboration shortens the transition period of a scientist after moving from one institution to another

Scientific collaboration plays a significant role in the research performance of scientists. Moving from one institution to another means a scientist leaves the team he/she belongs to or leads, but collaboration may continue because engaging in or building a new team takes time. This study explores the effect of continued collaboration on the transition period of scientists’ mobility, which is defined to measure the time that scientists spend publishing first-tier journal papers as before. We collected data from the Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) website and publication records from the Web of Science (WoS) database and applied the Logistic regression model and Poisson regression model to the dataset. Our findings show that continued collaboration significantly shortens the transition period by 26.4%.