Comment on What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index? by Liam Mac Liam

That’s interesting about the impact of spelling and translation inconsistencies on rankings of Iranian institutions. Some internal research at Portuguese universities came to a similar conclusion and Portugal’s largest university (recently created by a merger of Lisbon’s classical and technical universities to achieve critical mass) has now instructed all its researchers to use “universidade de lisboa” as the standard affiliation.