 We trace  movements of scholars between Mexican states  and provide key demographic measures of internal migration for the period 1996-2018  . From a methodological perspective, we develop a new framework for enhancing data quality, inferring states from affiliations, and detecting moves from modal states for the purposes of studying internal migration between researchers.
<clarity>  We trace  movements of scholars between Mexican states  and provide key demographic measures of internal migration for the period 1996-2018  . From a methodological perspective, we develop a new framework for enhancing data quality, inferring states from affiliations, and detecting moves from modal states for the purposes of studying internal migration between researchers.
 We trace movements of scholars between Mexican states and provide key demographic measures of internal migration for the period 1996-2018 period . From a methodological perspective, we develop a new framework for enhancing data quality, inferring states from affiliations, and detecting moves from modal states for the purposes of studying internal migration between researchers.