---
title: "Manuel Ansede"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Manuel Ansede"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-30T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["El País","Highly Cited Researchers list","Rafael Luque","Saudi HCR affiliation scandal"]
---


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.

## References

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