More Science Fraud

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Manipulating Citation Rankings

"Noting that the Academic Ranking of World Universities, often known as the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings, takes into account an institution’s proportion of highly cited researchers, the paper says that 'the results for King Abdulaziz illustrate that university rankings can be manipulated.'”

Wherever there is a metric which affects either presitige or cashflow, there will be some who game it for their own benefit. Science is one of those pursuits which has professional metrics.