We’ve already encountered Spain’s Rafael Luque, who makes an excellent living charging random people all over the world to have their names added to his (bogus) chemistry papers. The currency here is number of references on scientific studies — the more journals your name appears in, the higher your salary, and the higher your university’s institutional ranking. Luque is an important part of “an international network of scientists dedicated to inflating their own prestige through cheating, thus falsifying the rankings of the world’s top universities.”
Yes, yes, he’s been dismissed by his university, had endless papers retracted, and been exposed in the press as a stupendous fraud; but he’s still chugging along. They love him in Saudi Arabia.