Before revision:  Using an exhaustive set of over 2.4 million Scopus publications from 1996 to 2020 , we analyze the affiliation addresses of more than 659,000 researchers who have published with a Russian affiliation address at some point in their careers. Migration of researchers is observed through the changes in their affiliation addresses which alter the mode country of affiliation over different years.
After revision:  Using an exhaustive set of over 2.4 million Scopus publications from 1996 to 2020 , we analyze the affiliation addresses of more than 659,000 researchers who have published with a Russian affiliation address in Scopus-indexed sources in 1996-2020. The migration of researchers is observed through the changes in their affiliation addresses which alter the mode country of affiliation over different years.