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Talent goes to global cities: The world network of scientists’ mobility

Luca Verginer1; Massimo Riccaboni2

1 ETH Zurich · 2 IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

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Abstract

Highlights • We reconstruct and examine the global inter-city mobility of millions of scientist.• Scientists in global cities attract more citations than their peers elsewhere.• Prolific scientists gravitate toward global cities and remain there.• Scientific mobility contributes to the superior performance of global cities.

DOI
10.1016/j.respol.2020.104127
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