Evidence for What Every Appointment Is Worth

Every research-active scholar in the field, identified from the open scholarly record.

Research impact, the projected effect of the appointment, and the career facts that bear on a move.

Every projection is shown with its likely range.

Each projection is dated and later checked against the published outcome.

Where research-active faculty move between five regions, the corridors that carry them, and an opening for universities hiring in each.

Gulf universities already hire in clusters: about half of arrivals publish with another recent arrival, and about half share a subfield with one. When each post is filled on its own, a cohort can duplicate strengths and leave gaps; planning the posts together avoids both.

Provost and dean searches rest on reputation, references and interview. The research record of the units a candidate has led is public and rarely read. Set against peer units over the same years, it gives a committee evidence an interview cannot.

The eastward turn: who is arriving at Gulf universities, from where, in which fields, and where the openings are.

For a new department, research centre, or initiative: which posts, at which stages, in what order.

Universities price appointments but seldom price departures. Across 29 Gulf universities, a fifth of researchers appear on about four in five of the most cited papers. In some fields, one departure puts about a third of that record at risk.

Where research stands, which positions carry it, what a departure would cost, and which faculty to hire next.

Discretion, confirmed identity, and career facts only.

What ATLAS holds, how candidates are scored, and how reliable the estimates are.