Moving more, but closer: Mapping the growing regionalization of global scientific mobility using ORCID

This article investigates the taken-for-granted notion of scientific mobility as fundamentally “global.” We use self- reported biographical profile data of over a hundred thousand scientists from ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) who received a Ph.D. between the 1980s and 2010s. These data are advantageous over data commonly used to trace scientific mobility like surveys and disambiguated bibliometric data, as ORCID data offer both...