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Even though "academics from poorer backgrounds introduce more novel scientific concepts, [they] are less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards" The humanities have the least social mobility, quantitative fields have the

Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal & international flows [PDF] pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.107…

Global subnational estimates of migration of scientists reveal large disparities in internal and international flows pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Most stories about scholarly migration focus on the international dimension. But once you consider local flows, no country is "universally attractive." This new PNAS paper by Akbaritabar et al. comes with a dataset on regional level scholarly migration to flesh out those flows.

Even if your country attracts a lot of talent, your local region may not! Really interesting study in PNAS contrasting the movement of scientists within vs. across countries. Understanding this is essential because the movement of scientists is essential to innovation, business

📢New paper out on measuring global #migration flows using online data in PNASNews We use privacy-protected records from over 3 billion Facebook users to estimate migration flows between 181 countries, accounting for biases in social media usage. 🔗pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Very proud of this work by Faeze Ghorbanpour 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. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…

📢 Next ESHD Webminar! European Society of Historical #Demography Tuesday 20th May 2025. 3pm Aliakbar Aliakbar Akbaritabar, @akbaritabar.bsky.social (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany MPIDR). A Global Perspective on Social Stratification in Science.

🆕📰 reveals global patterns of the migration of scientists shedding light on how researchers move both within and between countries. A team of researchers MPIDR found large disparities in the appeal of various countries and regions to scientists. demogr.mpg.de/go/migration-o…

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A team MPIDR examined professional migration of men and women in 48 countries using data from LinkedIn. It found that, although men aspire to migrate more often than women, globally, as many women as men migrate for a job. demogr.mpg.de/go/professiona…

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 zotero.org/groups/5999043…

If academic freedom is suppressed in one country (here, Serbia) and we continue to ignore it, there is no guarantee that it will not be suppressed elsewhere. Read their statement and support the freedom of Serbian academics.

Published now in the Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Openly accessible here: doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.…

Internal migration of researchers matters as much as the international kind, yet we lack data until now. Their global database shows that domestic hubs poach talent from neighboring regions, redrawing the innovation map beneath national-level statistics. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

It's a brilliant initiative. Very much in line with a work that Faeze Ghorbanpour Thiago Zordan Malaguth and I did, openly accessible in #ICWSM2025 Differentiating Emigration from Return Migration of Scholars Using Name-Based Nationality Detection Models doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.…

🚀 Excited to be in Copenhagen for @ICWSM to present our paper, developed during my visit to MPIDR! 📍 Join me: 🗓️ Wed, June 25 @ 14:30 — Fairness and Bias in Web Platforms Session 🖼️ Thu, June 26 (morning) — Poster session Come say hi! 😊 #MigrationStudies #NLP

📄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%).📊

📝Excited to share my new publication with Emilio Zagheni and Helga de Valk in PNASNews where we look at gravity-type models for migration prediction. Our results suggest that ignoring gender makes these models less reliable⬇️ pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #migration #gender #modeling