---
title: "Yudhijit Bhattacharjee"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Yudhijit Bhattacharjee"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-10T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Highly Cited Researchers list","King Abdulaziz University","Science (AAAS)","Saudi Arabia higher-education strategy"]
---


*Science* (AAAS) journalist whose 2011 report ("Saudi Universities Offer Cash
in Exchange for Academic Prestige," *Science* 334(6061):1344–1345) is the root
primary nearly every later figure in the vault's Saudi-HCR cluster cites —
including the ~$72,000/year King Abdulaziz University payment figure in
[[claim-saudi-universities-bought-clarivate-highly-cited-researcher-status]].
Three separate sessions (2026-07-09, 2026-07-10, 2026-07-29) have each tried
and failed to fetch the original article directly (science.org/sciencemag.org
403s every attempt); his own words remain unread by the vault, cited only at
one or more removes.

## References

- [[claim-saudi-universities-bought-clarivate-highly-cited-researcher-status]]