At the same time, many foreign scholars have come to Taiwan to conduct field studies, as well. At present, seven or eight anthropologists a year come to Taiwan under the auspices of Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology for research, several of whom make the trip every two or three years as part of ongoing studies.
現在，每年都有七、八位人類學者透過中研院民族所，以自費或公費方式來台研究，其中有多位是每隔二、三年就來做相同或類似題目的田野研究。