PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Ioannidis, John P.A. AU - Koutsioumpa, Chara AU - Vakka, Angeliki AU - Agoranos, Georgios AU - Mantsiou, Chrysanthi AU - Drekolia, Maria Kyriaki AU - Avramidis, Nikos AU - Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Despina G. AU - Drosatos, Konstantinos AU - Baas, Jeroen TI - Comprehensive mapping of local and diaspora scientists: a database and analysis of 63951 Greek scientists AID - 10.1101/2021.01.13.426588 DP - 2021 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 2021.01.13.426588 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/15/2021.01.13.426588.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/01/15/2021.01.13.426588.full AB - Research policy and planning for a given country may benefit from reliable data on both its scientific workforce as well as the diaspora of scientists for countries with substantial brain drain. Here we use a systematic approach using Scopus to generate a comprehensive country-level database of all scientists in Greece. Moreover, we expand that database to include also Greek diaspora scientists. The database that we have compiled includes 63951 scientists who have published at least 5 papers indexed in Scopus. Of those, 35116 have an affiliation in Greece. We validate the sensitivity and specificity of the database against different control sets of scientists. We also analyze the scientific disciplines of these scientists according to the Science Metrix classification (174 subfield disciplines) and provide detailed data on each of the 63951 scientists using multiple citation indicators and a composite thereof. These analyses demonstrate differential concentrations in specific subfields for the local versus the diaspora cohorts, as well as an advantage of the diaspora cohort in terms of citation indicators especially among top-impact researchers. The approach that we have taken can be applied to map also the scientific workforce of other countries and nations for evaluation, planning and policy purposes.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.