Abstract: There has been a large number of literature research on the science and technology talents mobility overseas.This article uses the literature method to analyze the current publications on this issue based on Web of Science database with the CiteSpaceIII software to explore the evolution of the research process. Firstly, we make a co-citation analysis and detail the three core areas of the research on foreign science and technology mobility: "brain circulation" , "brain drain" and "brain gain". Secondly, we analyze the representative figure in the process of evolution and its replacement through the author co-citation analysis. What’s more, the change of research hot spots in various period is showed based on the keyword co-citation analysis. Finally, according to the evolution trend of overseas research on this issue, we speculate that in China the researches about this issue will focus on the impacts of brain drain and brain gain for Chinese economy, education, government finance and so forth.

摘要： 国际上关于科技人才国际流动的研究颇多，论文基于Web of Science数据库，应用CiteSpaceIII 软件，对国外已有的文献进行分析，欲探求国外科技人才国际流动问题研究的演进过程。通过采用共被引文献分析，提出了国外科技人才国际流动研究的三个核心领域：“人才环流”论、“人才外流”论和“人才流入”论，并分析了核心文献群体特征；通过共被引作者分析，展现了研究议题演进过程中的代表人物及其更替；通过关键词共现分析，探究该问题研究热点的演进。最后，依据国外研究热点的演进趋势，推测我国关于科技人才国际流动问题的研究热点将为人才回流和外流对我国影响的研究，包括经济影响、教育影响以及财政的影响等。