Where talent flows: Trends and determinants of Chinese students’ city preferences

• Li Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Xian Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Xian Zhang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Li Wang, Xian Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation University of International Business and Economics, Shenzhen Institute, Shenzhen, China

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• Yifei Wang,

  Roles Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

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• Yuxiang Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: YuxiangLi@nju.edu.cn

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5418-9192

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