Juan Manuel Corchado is the only candidate for the top position at the prestigious University of Salamanca in Spain despite artificially boosting his metrics to look like a world eminence
Following a scandal uncovered by EL PAÍS and involving fake affiliations, Saudi Arabia has lost 30% of the highly-cited researchers it previously boasted about, which will cause its universities to plummet in the international rankings
The engineer Rubén González Crespo, one of the most cited researchers in the world, and other academics in Spain claim to be victims of a sketchy Indian professor. Together they have 16 retracted papers
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