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Migration and Mobility
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Scholarly Migration Database
Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Tom Theile, Maciej Danko, Asli Ebru Sanlitürk, Thiago Zordan Malaguth, Emilio Zagheni; in Collaboration with László Németh (Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany), Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Francesco C. Billari (Bocconi University, Milan, Italy), Guy Stecklov (The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
The Scholarly Migration Database (SMD) is a systematically compiled and regularly updated database on the internal and international migration of scholars worldwide. It documents patterns and trends in scientific mobility across time and space, enabling research that advances migration theory. Detailed Description
Global net migration rates
International net migration rates (NMR) worldwide based on Scopus data. Net-migration rates of scholars worldwide from 2013-2017 based on Scopus in terms of the rate per
1,000 active scholars are shown and highlights countries with red colours experience a negative net rate indicating sending a higher number of scholars abroad than the number of scholars they receive. © Akbaritabar, A., Theile, T. & Zagheni, E. Global flows and rates of international migration of scholars. WP-2023-018
Education and Science, Internal Migration, Housing, Urbanisation, International Migration, Ethnic Minorities, Migration, Statistics and Mathematics
Africa, America, Asia, Europe, World
Publications
Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2026-029. (2026)
Akbaritabar, A.; Dańko, M. J.; Zhao, X.; Zagheni, E.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122:15, e2424521122–e2424521122. (2025)
Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:
Scientific Data 11:816, 1–14. (2024)
Akbaritabar, A.; Theile, T.; Zagheni, E.:
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2023-018. (2023)
Şanlitürk, A. E.; Zagheni, E.; Dańko, M. J.; Theile, T.; Akbaritabar, A.:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120:4, e2217937120–e2217937120. (2023)