Some institutions arrange for highly cited researchers to change their main affiliations, which boosts their position in global university rankings.
with King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, with varying financial terms and levels of contribution.
In 2019, shortly after she appeared on Clarivate’s 2018 HCR list, chemist Mira Petrović at the Catalan Institute for Water Research in Girona, Spain, received an e-mail from KSU inviting her to form a collaboration. “I thought they wanted to propose a real collaboration,” says Petrović. But after a brief exchange, she received an e-mail bluntly asking to change her affiliation in exchange for cash. “Your primary affiliation should be King Saud University on https://hcr.clarivate.
Three-quarters of Saudi-affiliated HCRs have a secondary affiliation in a different country. That is markedly higher than those based in other countries: only 2% of HCRs with a primary affiliation in the United States have a secondary affiliation elsewhere, as do 13% with a primary affiliation in Spain.
Many in the research community criticize reliance on rankings, because they distort a university’s priorities and cannot capture an institution’s true value. “All the quantitative indicators based on bibliometrics are very delicate in use, and subject to gaming,” says Ghislaine Filliatreau, research-integrity officer at INSERM, the French national institute for health and medical research, who sits on the Shanghai Ranking’s international advisory board.
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