{"id":66695,"date":"2023-04-18T10:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T10:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-18\/arabia-saudi-paga-a-cientificos-espanoles-para-hacer-trampas-en-el-ranking-de-las-mejores-universidades-del-mundo.html"},"modified":"2023-04-18T10:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T10:13:29","slug":"arabia-saudi-paga-a-cientificos-espanoles-para-hacer-trampas-en-el-ranking-de-las-mejores-universidades-del-mundo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/arabia-saudi-paga-a-cientificos-espanoles-para-hacer-trampas-en-el-ranking-de-las-mejores-universidades-del-mundo\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia pays Spanish scientists to cheat in the ranking of the best universities in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>La qu\u00edmica <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpetrovic_icra\">Mira Petrovic<\/a>, una de las cient\u00edficas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icra.cat\/news\/investigadors-licra-entre-cient-fics\/789\">m\u00e1s citadas de Espa\u00f1a y del mundo<\/a>, muestra todav\u00eda estupefacta la oferta que recibi\u00f3 de una universidad saud\u00ed justo antes de la pandemia. La investigadora percibir\u00eda cada a\u00f1o 70.000 euros en su cuenta bancaria si hac\u00eda constar esa instituci\u00f3n \u00e1rabe, la Rey Sa\u00fad de Riad, como su lugar de trabajo principal en <a href=\"https:\/\/clarivate.com\/highly-cited-researchers\/?action=clv_hcr_members_filter&#038;clv-paged=1&#038;clv-category=&#038;clv-institution=&#038;clv-region=Saudi%20Arabia&#038;clv-name=&#038;utm_medium=Organic%2FSearch&#038;utm_source=www-google-com\">one of the databases<\/a> that the influencer uses <i>ranking<\/i> de Shangh\u00e1i para designar a las mejores universidades del planeta. Petrovic, que trabaja en Girona en el Instituto Catal\u00e1n de Investigaci\u00f3n del Agua, solo estar\u00eda obligada a pisar Arabia Saud\u00ed un par de veces al a\u00f1o, en escapadas de tres d\u00edas. Ella rechaz\u00f3 sin dudar este ofrecimiento \u201cindecente\u201d, pero decenas de reputados investigadores de todo el mundo figuran como afiliados a universidades saud\u00edes en primer lugar, aunque sea obviamente falso, disparando artificialmente a las instituciones \u00e1rabes en las clasificaciones acad\u00e9micas internacionales. China, con 12 casos, y Espa\u00f1a, con 11, son los pa\u00edses con m\u00e1s investigadores que actualmente muestran un salto ficticio a un centro saud\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/elpais.com\/ciencia\/2023-04-18\/arabia-saudi-paga-a-cientificos-espanoles-para-hacer-trampas-en-el-ranking-de-las-mejores-universidades-del-mundo.html\" >Keep reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/BEE7DCRJGRHDTGREZM7EETHU7I.jpg\" width=\"1794\" height=\"1022\" alt=\"Luis Mart\u00ednez, catedr\u00e1tico de la Universidad de Ja\u00e9n.\"><\/img><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com\/prisa\/WL24WHZVKVFJ5DOGVXBAFTDXG4.jpg\" width=\"4608\" height=\"3072\" alt=\"El f\u00edsico Andr\u00e9s Castellanos, en su laboratorio del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid.\"><\/img><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen researchers in Spain falsely declare that their main work is in Arab institutions, to artificially boost them in academic rankings<\/p>","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-portal"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66708,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66695\/revisions\/66708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}