> Salamanca stated that there were “20 or 30” false online accounts dedicated to citing him and, in just two minutes, he offered two contradictory explanations: that they had been created by former disgruntled workers to harm him, and that “a young man” had created them to demonstrate that ResearchGate could be rigged. Next, Corchado assured that he had deleted those profiles thanks to his knowledge in cybersecurity. A ResearchGate spokesperson, however, explained that they are not aware of any computer attack and that only the creator of a profile can delete it with their password. ( emphasis mine) I laughed so hard at this. Also, him going out claiming that it's all baseless and just check Scopus to see how awesome he is, to then have el pais do exactly that to find more obvious fraud is just priceless. If it wasn't real it could be comedy.