Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html

14 comments

  1. MBS tried to cheat and was caught creating Potemkin Village of trying to falsely raise the ranking of Saudi universities.

    Good riddance.

  2. Shows how competitive academia has become when people feel they need to fake their way to the top. Glad to see them being called out.

  3. I don’t understand. Did they stop falsely claiming or do you want them to stop?

  4. Most cited is debatable, but the conspiracy has obvious merits.

  5. most innovation and research traditionally has come from free countries, that is one strong argument for democratic order of things

    is it still so?

  7. Huh? Who did you say your employer was?

    *Oh, I work 100% remote.*

  8. This is why I can’t choose not to view the article:

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  9. Oil money is a bane of the world. Qatar is funding islamic propaganda in American universities and mosques and Saudi using it to white wash it’s negative image.

  11. What a dumb vanity project. They were wasting money just to buy higher ranks on a ranking that mostly only other academics care about? Not even to buy good research/researchers like other strategies like China’s Thousand Talents?

    What the fuck?

    Why?

    Who cares?

  12. What scientist wants to work in a place where it’s 120F and no alcohol? What scientist is that poor?

  13. I don’t work in Saudi Arabia either there, I said it

  14. These scientists should be named and shamed and prosecuted. What they did is fraud. They also helped a tyrannical regime improve its reputation using lies.

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