Saudi University Policy: Overvalued Rankings

摘要

I Read With Great Interest The News Focus Story "Saudi universities offer cash in exchange for academic prestige" (Y. Bhattacharjee, 9 December 2011, p. 1344) on the practices used by Saudi universities to boost their academic rankings. Just as with fellow astronomer Bob Kirschner, I received an e-mail out of the blue last June from someone I didn't know, offering me an adjunct professorship at King Abdulaziz University (KAU).