Murray et al., "Unsupervised embedding of trajectories captures the latent structure of scientific migration" (2023)

2023-12-22 → 2026-08-14

Dakota Murray, Jisung Yoon, Sadamori Kojaku, Rodrigo Costas, Woo-Sung Jung, Staša Milojević, and Yong-Yeol Ahn, PNAS 120, e2305414120 (2023)
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@article{murray2023unsupervised,
    author = {Dakota Murray and Jisung Yoon and Sadamori Kojaku and Rodrigo Costas and Woo-Sung Jung and Sta\v{s}a Milojevi\'{c} and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
    title = {Unsupervised embedding of trajectories captures the latent structure of scientific migration},
    journal = {PNAS},
    volume = {120},
    pages = {e2305414120},
    doi = {10.1073/pnas.2305414120},
    archivePrefix = {arXiv},
    eprint = {2012.02785},
    primaryClass = {cs.LG},
    year = {2023},
}

Applies word2vec to three million scientists’ affiliation trajectories. The resulting embeddings recover geographic, cultural, linguistic, and prestige relationships among locations, and the paper shows that the model is mathematically equivalent to the Gravity model of mobility.

Human mobility, Scientific mobility

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