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

www.scholarlymigration.org

#BiblioDemography
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Have you been wondering where to find a comprehensive 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
www.zotero.org/groups/59990...
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Come visit MPIDR in ☀️Summer 2026☀️
📣Call for Application for the "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program"
📅☀️June 8th – August 21st, 2026☀️
🗺️MPIDR in Rostock, Germany
Application Deadline: Jan 14, 2026
Apply here and learn more:
incubator.demogr.mpg.de
December 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...
October 24, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Have you been wondering where to find a comprehensive 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
www.zotero.org/groups/59990...
May 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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🆕 study reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries.
A team of researchers @mpidr.bsky.social found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/migration...
May 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Very proud of this work by Faeze Ghorbanpour, @thiagomalaguth.bsky.social and me, which addresses the left censoring issues in migration research that uses digital trace data.

It will appear in the proceedings of #ICWSM2025, and Faeze is going to present it there.

Access:
doi.org/10.48550/arX...
May 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Hot off the press as population enthusiasts gather for #PAA2025...

New paper on global interrelationships between internal and international migration reveals novel patterns, inequalities and asymmetries.

Bonus item: a high-resolution database free to download...
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: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025
April 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
with Maciej J. Dańko, Xinyi Zhao, @ezagheni.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social #PAA2025
April 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Some subnational regions were disproportionately more attractive to receive scholars from both internal and international origins. Some regions were consistently sending scholars to both internal and international destinations: brain drain. Data on the @smdatabase.bsky.social doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
April 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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I have arrived in Catania, and I am excited for tomorrow to deliver an invited talk on "Mobility, Migration, and Collaboration of Scholars" at the University of Catania.

A long shot, perhaps, but let me know if you are around here!

#BiblioDemography @smdatabase.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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📂Find the data publicly on Zenodo doi.org/10.5281/zeno... and all details on the website of the Scholarly Migration Database
scholarlymigration.org
“Use them to find the causes and consequences of the migration of scholars!”, says Tom Theile.🧵4/5
October 29, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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👓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🧵1/5
October 29, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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A 1-day hybrid symposium dedicated to high-skilled and scientific mobility!

Please spread the word and join online or in Rostock!

@smdatabase.bsky.social

www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
October 1, 2024 at 7:17 AM
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📣Call for Registration!
Migration and Mobility Symposium @mpidr.bsky.social
An event to promote exchange & collaboration among scientists interested in scholarly #migration & scientific #mobility.
📅Oct 15, 2024
🕗8am-6pm CEST
💻Join online: www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even...
#demography
October 1, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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:
demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

#BiblioDemography
August 22, 2024 at 7:24 PM
We, @smdatabase.bsky.social'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:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#BiblioDemography
July 25, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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Excited!
Paper w/ Tom Theile and @ezagheni.bsky.social on the Scholarly Migration Database is published in Nature Scientific Data
"Bilateral flows and rates of international migration of scholars for 210 countries for the period 1998-2020"
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
@mpidr.bsky.social #BiblioDemography
July 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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This happens tomorrow afternoon CET time. Looking forward to presenting @smdatabase.bsky.social, hearing the comments/suggestions of the attendees and panelists, learning about the other initiatives and meeting many of you on Zoom
@mpidr.bsky.social
IUSSP
@ezagheni.bsky.social
Tom Theile
📣📣Don't miss this webinar on innovations in data infrastructure for the longitudinal study of international migration!

📆 March 7th 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET

More info and registrations: iussp.org/en/innovatio...

@svidal.bsky.social @rosaweber.bsky.social @akbaritabar.bsky.social
International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
iussp.org
March 6, 2024 at 10:57 AM
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Just a reminder of the deadline for application on January 10.

Apply for the 2024 "Population and Social Data Science Summer Incubator Program" here:
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...

One team works on "Network and Gender Dynamics on Mobility and Migration" @mpidr.bsky.social @ezagheni.bsky.social
January 5, 2024 at 1:43 PM
With one day dedicated to #BiblioDemography including the introduction of the Scholarly Migration Database!
Pleasure to have inquisitive students from all over the world attending our hybrid course on Digital and Computational Demography this week, presented by our researchers @akbaritabar.bsky.social, @ezagheni.bsky.social, Tom Theile, @jiisu.bsky.social and Risto Conte Keivabu!
December 7, 2023 at 8:57 PM
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Continued by showing the "new look" of the Scholarly Migration Database's Exploration page accessible here:

www.scholarlymigration.org/exploration....

#BiblioDemography
@smdatabase.bsky.social
@ezagheni.bsky.social
@mpidr.bsky.social
November 8, 2023 at 3:07 PM
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@ezagheni.bsky.social speaking about "Global Migration of Scholars –Trends, Patterns with Economic Development, and Gender Inequalities" MPI_inno_comp and here describing the sub-national disparities in migration of scholars in Europe
doi.org/10.4054/MPID...
#BiblioDemography
@smdatabase.bsky.social
November 8, 2023 at 3:01 PM