Credit: Abdullah Al-Eisa/Getty Research institutions in Saudi Arabia are gaming global university rankings by encouraging top researchers to change their main affiliations, sometimes in exchange for cash, and often with little obligation to do meaningful work. SIRIS’s report does not detail specific financial arrangements between institutions and researchers, but since the early 2010s, leading researchers worldwide have reported being approached by Saudi universities with offers of cash in exchange for being added to a researcher’s affiliations. Hong Kong (HK)The Department of Physics, Umeå University, is now looking for a PhD student in experimental physics, with a focus on organic electronics