Scholarly Migration Database

Scholarly Migration Database, news and updates

Quantifying the Mobility of Scholars at Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)

@smdatabase.bsky

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

We have a new major release!

The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online!

Working paper is here:
https://t.co/OcltjY3FeS

Updated data: https://t.co/Oi87v47fjK

Website: https://t.co/jQUJpsbgND

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

We have a new major release!

The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online!

Working paper is here:
https://t.co/OcltjY3FeS

Updated data: https://t.co/Oi87v47fjK

Website: https://t.co/jQUJpsbgND

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

The Scholarly Migration Database 2.0 is now online!

Just in time for the European Population Conference 2026 in Bologna!

See the working paper here:
https://t.co/eoJattgmcO

Access the data on Zenodo:
https://t.co/A39PA9CKbV

@MPIDRnews @TheileTom @ezagheni

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

📣 Heads-up everyone interested in databases and scholarly migration! 📣

We have great news "loading..."!
https://t.co/jQUJpsbgND

Tune in and watch this space. More soon!
@theiletom.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social

#BiblioDemography

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

Highly recommended to apply to this doctoral position to contribute to the future of @SMDatabase !

#BiblioDemography

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

Know a master graduate looking for a funded doctoral position? Please share this!

Come work with @ezagheni and me at @MPIDRnews on topics related to migration of scholars and the highly-skilled.

More details:
https://t.co/EcNwqu5OR6

[Faeze Ghorbanpour @FaezeGhorbanpor]

📄We show how adding nationality (via language models) can transform migration studies, helping distinguish emigration vs. return migration.

🇺🇸➡️🇨🇳 Literature reports high US→China emigration using academic origin. But with name origin, ~48% are return migrants (vs. 33%).📊

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

Have u been wondering where to find a list of publications about the Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) using the SMD data or publications by its team and collabs? Or the ones citing SMD-related works?

Now, we have a public Zotero Group library to join
https://t.co/Ei7shMUD8f

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

🆕📰 reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries.
A team of researchers @MPIDRnews found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists.
https://t.co/J1oRBjhrL2

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

Very proud of this work by @FaezeGhorbanpor Thiago Zordan Malaguth and me, which addresses the left censoring issues in migration research that uses digital trace data.

It will appear in the proceedings of #ICWSM2025.

Faeze is going to present it there.
https://t.co/byjiLkyVBt

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

I am extremely happy to share. Just out in @pnas.org:

“Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows”

Open Access: https://t.co/yAuXCYn3Ro
w/ @danko_maciej @XinyiZhao16 @ezagheni @MPIDRnews #PAA2025

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

Some subnational regions were disproportionately more attractive to receive scholars from both internal and international origins. Some were consistently sending scholars to both internal and international destinations: brain drain. Data on @SMDatabase https://t.co/ERqVRckDlv

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

Scholarly Migration and Scientific Mobility: @MPIDRnews recently hosted a symposium to bring together researchers from different disciplines and countries. It was organized by @EbruSanliturk, @Akbaritabar, @TheileTom and @ezagheni
https://t.co/itL2X4EZI9

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

📂Find the data publicly on Zenodo https://t.co/VSVq15An6v and all details on the website of the Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase https://t.co/II5KzUcDuu
“Use them to find the causes and consequences of the migration of scholars!”, says @TheileTom 🧵4/5

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

👓Recommended reading📚

🆕Migration data🚶🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️
Reliable migration data is notoriously hard to get. But very detailed longitudinal data about the mobility of almost all researchers publishing papers is hidden in big bibliometric databases like @Scopus + @OpenAlex_org 🧵1/5

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

📣Call for Registration! Migration and Mobility Symposium @MPIDRnews
An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility.
📅Oct 15, 🕗8am-6pm CEST
💻Join online: https://t.co/K3ow4esnjo
#demography #poptwitter

[MPIDR @MPIDRnews]

📣Call for Application‼️ Join online ‼️
Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
📅 Nov 4 - Nov 8, 2024
Application Deadline: Sep 24, 2024
Instructors: @Akbaritabar @kr_jisu @ConteRisto @TheileTom and @ezagheni (Director @MPIDRnews)
https://t.co/Fag0BIhRfI
#poptwitter

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

With one day focused on:

Using large-scale bibliometric data for demographic research; (e.g., family planning, migration research); [...] to trace internal and international scholarly migration worldwide.

More information here:
https://t.co/83KBFCPZuz

#BiblioDemography

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

Applications are now open for our PhD level course on

"Topics in Digital and Computational Demography"

with a hybrid setup from November 4 to 8th 2024.

More information and application link here:
https://t.co/c9PE1PNZbE
@IMPRS_PHDS @ezagheni @kr_jisu @TheileTom @ConteRisto

[Scholarly Migration Database @SMDatabase]

We, @SMDatabase's core team, are thrilled to share this publication alongside the updated version of the data.

"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"

Open Access:
https://t.co/prDRtHoQhn

#BiblioDemography

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

Excited!
Paper w/ @TheileTom @ezagheni on @SMDatabase is published in Nature Scientific Data @ScientificData

"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
https://t.co/J7x1MfnqRK

@MPIDRnews #BiblioDemography

[Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social @Akbaritabar]

If you are interested in outmigration versus return migration of scholars, come find me in poster 71 now!
#PAA
#BiblioDemography
@SMDatabase