“…Travelers maintain their linkage to a country, while adding other international affiliations (Ackers, 2005;Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Miao et al, 2018;Laudel, 2003;Robinson-García, Sugimoto et al, 2018;Robinson-García et al, 2019;Sugimoto et al, 2016Sugimoto et al, , 2017. Among other advantages, bibliometric tracking of scientific mobility allows gaining access to mobility data in regions in which there is a lack of other sources of mobility information (e.g., surveys), as well as allowing diachronic analyses (Malakhov & Erkina, 2020;Miranda-González, Aref et al, 2020;Yurevich, Erkina et al, 2020). Specific studies in different regions of the world and selected countries have been performed to better understand how they are integrated in the global network and how globalization affects specific geographical regions (Bernard, Bernela, & Ferru, 2021;Subbotin & Aref, 2020;Wang, Hooi et al, 2019a;Wang, Luo et al, 2019b;Zhao, Aref et al, 2021).…”