Laboratory

Digital and Computational Demography

At a Glance Projects Publications Team

Project

Modeling and Analysis of Migration and Mobility among Scholars

Samin Aref, Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Tom Theile, Emilio Zagheni, Xinyi Zhao; in Collaboration with West Jevin (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Andrea Miranda-González (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Alexander Subbotin (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation), Ebru Sanlitürk, Francesco Billari (both: Bocconi University, Milan, Italy), Guy Stecklov (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)

Digital trace data give us unprecedented opportunities for understanding patterns of mobility among scholars, testing existing migration theories and developing new ones. This project leverages large-scale bibliometric data to measure and model the migration of scholars on a global scale.  Detailed Description

Publications

Zhao, X.; Aref, S.; Zagheni, E.; Stecklov, G.:

International migration in academia and citation performance: an analysis of German-affiliated researchers by gender and discipline using Scopus publications 1996-2020

In: 18th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics ISSI 2021: 12-15 July 2021, KU Leuven, Belgium; proceedings, 1369–1380. Leuven: ISSI. (2021)    

Miranda-González, A.; Aref, S.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:

Scholarly migration within Mexico: analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data

EPJ Data Science 9. (2020)    

Subbotin, A.; Aref, S.:

Brain drain and brain gain in Russia: analyzing international mobility of researchers by discipline using Scopus bibliometric data 1996-2020

MPIDR Working Paper WP-2020-025. (2020)    

Alburez-Gutierrez, D.; Aref, S.; Gil-Clavel, B. S.; Grow, A.; Negraia, D. V.; Zagheni, E.:

Demography in the digital era: new data sources for population research

In: Smart statistics for smart applications : book of short papers SIS2019, 23–30. Pearson. (2019)