Internal Migration of Researchers in Mexico from 1996 to 2018

Scopus publication affiliation data from 1996-2018 was used to infer internal migration among researchers across Mexican states. The dataset, created by Andrea Miranda-González and colleagues, represents each movement as a row from a source to a target state in a specific year. It is provided under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and can be used to model migration flows or as an edge-list for network analysis.

Use Cases

• Modeling internal migration flows between Mexican states based on inferred researcher movements.
• Constructing directed, weighted network models of migration events with states as nodes.
• Analyzing temporal trends in scholarly mobility over the 1996-2018 period.

Strengths

• Data spans a 23-year period from 1996 to 2018.
• Derived from the authoritative Scopus bibliographic database maintained by Elsevier.
• Includes pre-computed annual network files in GML format for graph analysis.

Limitations

• Row count and specific column definitions are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Data is inferred from publication affiliations and may not capture all migration events.
• The license restricts commercial use (CC BY-NC-SA).

Provenance

Source

Scopus publications, owned and maintained by Elsevier.

Collection Method

Inferred from the affiliation addresses of publications.

Time Range

1996-2018

Geography

States within Mexico.