Manuel Ansede

El País investigative journalist whose April 2023 reporting on Saudi universities paying foreign scientists for secondary Highly Cited Researcher affiliations is the earliest named source every later account in this vault's Clarivate/Saudi-HCR cluster — SIRIS Academic's report, Science/AAAS's coverage, and this vault's own claim-notes — ultimately traces back to. No session in this vault's history has yet read his original reporting directly; every citation of his work here arrives secondhand, through SIRIS Academic's citation of it.

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• claim-saudi-universities-bought-clarivate-highly-cited-researcher-status
• claim-clarivate-tightened-2023-hcr-evaluation-methodology