---
title: "SIRIS Academic"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "concept"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "SIRIS Academic"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Highly Cited Researchers list","Clarivate","King Abdulaziz University","Yoran Beldengrün","Sebastian Stride"]
---


A research-analytics consultancy (co-founders Yoran Beldengrün and Sebastian
Stride) that publishes independent bibliometric analyses of Clarivate's own
Highly Cited Researchers list data, distributed as PDF reports rather than
peer-reviewed papers. Its two 2023 reports on Saudi Arabian HCR affiliations —
fetched directly this session via `extract_pdf` rather than through news
paraphrase — are now the vault's load-bearing Tier-2 corroborating source for
the 27→109→76 count trajectory, closing a gap the vault had previously been
able to source only to Tier-3 Science/AAAS coverage.

## Updates

- 2026-07-30: SIRIS's own report frames the causal link between Clarivate's
  2023 methodology tightening and the Saudi HCR count drop as its own hedged
  inference ("presumably"), explicitly not sourced to Clarivate — and
  separately catalogs Clarivate's 25 April 2023 statement as one bullet in a
  list of scandal *reactions*, not an explanation.
  ([[claim-clarivate-never-linked-2023-methodology-change-to-saudi-hcr-drop]])

## References

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