Faculty mobility follows a persistent institutional prestige hierarchy but yields little evidence of lasting improvements in movers' research productivity or citation impact.
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Foreign-trained U.S. faculty show higher aggregate elite publications due to institutional placement and team size in mixed domestic-foreign groups, with within-strata differences attenuating sharply and little evidence of niche topic distinctiveness.
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Faculty mobility reallocates research capacity within persistent institutional hierarchies
Faculty mobility follows a persistent institutional prestige hierarchy but yields little evidence of lasting improvements in movers' research productivity or citation impact.
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Global training and the collaborative structure of elite U.S. science
Foreign-trained U.S. faculty show higher aggregate elite publications due to institutional placement and team size in mixed domestic-foreign groups, with within-strata differences attenuating sharply and little evidence of niche topic distinctiveness.