This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings
The publisher’s decision to withdraw the articles by Juan Manuel Corchado is the biggest scandal to hit Spanish scientists
The analysis confirms that Juan Manuel Corchado organized ‘a factory of publications and citations’ with ‘openly fraudulent’ practices
The founders of Retraction Watch, an organization specialized in research misconduct, call for eliminating the incentives to manipulate metrics
For years, Professor Juan Manuel Corchado demanded that his collaborators include up to 20 references to his own work in their papers. On Friday he took office as the new rector of Salamanca University in Spain
Juan Manuel Corchado is the only candidate for the top position at the prestigious University of Salamanca in Spain despite artificially boosting his metrics to look like a world eminence
Both Hannibal and Julius Caesar used pachyderms in their campaigns in Hispania, but the Carthaginian general had far more expertise in their deployment than the legions
A scientific review of 17 studies concludes that these accessories have no effect on eye fatigue or sleep quality
More than 150 heraldic coats of arms tell the unhappy story of the woman who Pope Innocent III forced to separate from King Alfonso IX of León when they already had five children together
Students and administrators are wrestling with how to respond to the state’s newly approved ban on the use of Native American-themed logos and names
