KI Stergiou
Biographic Data
| ID | 6795484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | KI Stergiou |
| GIVEN NAMES | KI |
| FAMILY NAME | Stergiou |
| SIGNATURE | STERGIOU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Open data in the life sciences
Full and open access is promoted as the international norm for the exchange of scientific data by numerous scientific and political bodies. In the contemporary digital era, since scientists are both consumers and producers of data, they inevitably play a crucial role in defining the level of data accessibility. Yet, it is individual researchers usually who resist the release of their data. Through a global online questionnaire survey, the percept…
The most famous fish
Despite the historically close connection between humans and fish, the question 'What is the most famous fish species?' has never been asked. I used Google Ngram viewer to estimate the frequency of times the common names of 250 fishes appear in the corpus of digitized English books published between 1800 and 2000. I propose the 'famon' as a unit of fame, with 1 famon = 10 -6 relative % Ngram frequency. Twelve of the 250 common names are words whi…
Academic freedom and tenure
ESEP Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Contact the journal RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections ESEP 15:1-5 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00168 Academic freedom and tenure: introduction Konstantinos I. Stergiou1,2,*, Stylianos Somarakis1 1Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Aghios Kosm…
Tenure and academic deadwood
The introduction of market forces into higher education (i.e. marketization) in recent decades goes along with a sharp decline in tenured positions offered, accompanied by polemic voices against tenure. The main claim, that tenure reduces the productivity of senior faculty, has not been thoroughly tested, with existing scarce evidence being controversial. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing the number of publications of 2136 currently full pro…
Nailing down ‘academic’ freedom and tenure in Greek research institutions
In this essay we describe the different blows that research in Greece has suffered because of the economic crisis (i.e. drastic budgetary cuts, hiring freezes for new positions, severe salary cuts, and austerity-driven brain-drain), despite the fact that Greek research is prospering in terms of publications and citations. In addition, we discuss the last blow to Greek research; notably, the abolishment of tenure and the change in the status of re…
Which came first
Global university rankings are provided by several organisations based on various criteria, most of which are, directly or indirectly, related to the wealth of the university. The main objective of this work was to examine the effect of money on rankings and vice versa. First, we examined the relationship between global university rankings and professors’ salaries and found an asymptotic trend for all ranks of professors across the top 200 US uni…
The ethics of human impacts and the future of the earth’s ecosystems
In this Theme Section, a selection of the International Ecology Institute Prize laureates and authors of the Excellence in Ecology books present their thoughts on the ethics of our impact on, and the future of, the earth's ecosystems. The 5 essays address various issues: (1) the longer-term role of humans on the earth and (2) the earth's capacity for supporting humans; (3) the diversity of microbes surrounding us and the allergic desensitization …
Global university rankings uncovered
University rankings have gained growing attention from university administrations and faculty members, markets, governments, mass media and the public at large, affecting nearly all aspects directly or indirectly related to academia. This Theme Section includes 12 essays from 16 authors, coming from 9 countries (i.e. Singapore, the USA, the UK
Global university reputation and rankings
In this study, we used culturomics (i.e. analysis of large electronic datasets for the study of human culture) in order to study the use of the names of various universities in the digitized corpus of English books. In particular, we used the Google Ngram viewer (available online: http://books.google.com/ngrams) to produce the frequencies of the names of 13 US, 5 UK and 4 Canadian universities in the English books and examined how these frequenci…
Parallels in economic and ecosystem crises
We describe the analogy between the state of the economic crisis and the state of global fisheries, both of which are timely and important issues. We believe that there are some lessons from the economic crisis that may benefit global fisheries, if viewed and addressed properly. In a wide ethical framework, the crisis in the global fisheries sector should be taken as seriously as the economic crisis and confronted with similarly drastic measures.…
On impact factors and university rankings
In this essay we explore parallels in the birth, evolution and final 'banning' of journal impact factors (IFs) and university rankings (URs). IFs and what has become popularized as global URs (GURs) were born in 1975 and 2003, respectively, and the obsession with both 'tools' has gone global. They have become important instruments for a diverse range of academic and higher education issues (IFs: e.g. for hiring and promoting faculty, giving and d…
Introduction Factors and Indices Are One Thing, Deciding Who Is Scholarly, Why They Are Scholarly, and the Relative Value of Their Scholarship Is Something Else Entirely
ESEP Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Contact the journal RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections ESEP 8:1-3 (2008) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00089 INTRODUCTIONFactors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely Howard I. Browman1,*, Konstantinos …
Market and regulation in American urban sprawl
We analyzed the articles cited in 4 reviews on various aspects of Mediterranean marine and freshwater fishes. In total, these reviews used 498 published sources, from which less than 40% were in journals covered by Thomson ISI. The remaining sources were published either in local journals (23.5%) or in other media formats (e.g. theses, conference proceedings, technical reports). Thus, searching only the ISI's database produces a strongly biased p…
Equivalence of results from two citation analyses
Citation counts were performed across a wide range of disciplines using both the Thomson ISI files and Google Scholar, and shown to lead to essentially the same results, in spite of their different methods for identifying citing sources. This has strong implications for future citation analyses, and the many promotion, tenure and funding decisions based thereon, notably because ISI products are rather costly, while Google Scholar is free
On impact factors and university rankings
In this essay we explore parallels in the birth, evolution and final 'banning' of journal impact factors (IFs) and university rankings (URs). IFs and what has become popularized as global URs (GURs) were born in 1975 and 2003, respectively, and the obsession with both 'tools' has gone global. They have become important instruments for a diverse range of academic and higher education issues (IFs: e.g. for hiring and promoting faculty, giving and d…
Equivalence of results from two citation analyses
Citation counts were performed across a wide range of disciplines using both the Thomson ISI files and Google Scholar, and shown to lead to essentially the same results, in spite of their different methods for identifying citing sources. This has strong implications for future citation analyses, and the many promotion, tenure and funding decisions based thereon, notably because ISI products are rather costly, while Google Scholar is free
Global university reputation and rankings
In this study, we used culturomics (i.e. analysis of large electronic datasets for the study of human culture) in order to study the use of the names of various universities in the digitized corpus of English books. In particular, we used the Google Ngram viewer (available online: http://books.google.com/ngrams) to produce the frequencies of the names of 13 US, 5 UK and 4 Canadian universities in the English books and examined how these frequenci…
Which came first
Global university rankings are provided by several organisations based on various criteria, most of which are, directly or indirectly, related to the wealth of the university. The main objective of this work was to examine the effect of money on rankings and vice versa. First, we examined the relationship between global university rankings and professors’ salaries and found an asymptotic trend for all ranks of professors across the top 200 US uni…
Global university rankings uncovered
University rankings have gained growing attention from university administrations and faculty members, markets, governments, mass media and the public at large, affecting nearly all aspects directly or indirectly related to academia. This Theme Section includes 12 essays from 16 authors, coming from 9 countries (i.e. Singapore, the USA, the UK
Parallels in economic and ecosystem crises
We describe the analogy between the state of the economic crisis and the state of global fisheries, both of which are timely and important issues. We believe that there are some lessons from the economic crisis that may benefit global fisheries, if viewed and addressed properly. In a wide ethical framework, the crisis in the global fisheries sector should be taken as seriously as the economic crisis and confronted with similarly drastic measures.…
Introduction Factors and Indices Are One Thing, Deciding Who Is Scholarly, Why They Are Scholarly, and the Relative Value of Their Scholarship Is Something Else Entirely
ESEP Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Contact the journal RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections ESEP 8:1-3 (2008) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00089 INTRODUCTIONFactors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely Howard I. Browman1,*, Konstantinos …
Tenure and academic deadwood
The introduction of market forces into higher education (i.e. marketization) in recent decades goes along with a sharp decline in tenured positions offered, accompanied by polemic voices against tenure. The main claim, that tenure reduces the productivity of senior faculty, has not been thoroughly tested, with existing scarce evidence being controversial. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing the number of publications of 2136 currently full pro…
Nailing down ‘academic’ freedom and tenure in Greek research institutions
In this essay we describe the different blows that research in Greece has suffered because of the economic crisis (i.e. drastic budgetary cuts, hiring freezes for new positions, severe salary cuts, and austerity-driven brain-drain), despite the fact that Greek research is prospering in terms of publications and citations. In addition, we discuss the last blow to Greek research; notably, the abolishment of tenure and the change in the status of re…
The ethics of human impacts and the future of the earth’s ecosystems
In this Theme Section, a selection of the International Ecology Institute Prize laureates and authors of the Excellence in Ecology books present their thoughts on the ethics of our impact on, and the future of, the earth's ecosystems. The 5 essays address various issues: (1) the longer-term role of humans on the earth and (2) the earth's capacity for supporting humans; (3) the diversity of microbes surrounding us and the allergic desensitization …
Equivalence of results from two citation analyses
Citation counts were performed across a wide range of disciplines using both the Thomson ISI files and Google Scholar, and shown to lead to essentially the same results, in spite of their different methods for identifying citing sources. This has strong implications for future citation analyses, and the many promotion, tenure and funding decisions based thereon, notably because ISI products are rather costly, while Google Scholar is free
Market and regulation in American urban sprawl
We analyzed the articles cited in 4 reviews on various aspects of Mediterranean marine and freshwater fishes. In total, these reviews used 498 published sources, from which less than 40% were in journals covered by Thomson ISI. The remaining sources were published either in local journals (23.5%) or in other media formats (e.g. theses, conference proceedings, technical reports). Thus, searching only the ISI's database produces a strongly biased p…
Introduction Factors and Indices Are One Thing, Deciding Who Is Scholarly, Why They Are Scholarly, and the Relative Value of Their Scholarship Is Something Else Entirely
ESEP Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Contact the journal RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections ESEP 8:1-3 (2008) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00089 INTRODUCTIONFactors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely Howard I. Browman1,*, Konstantinos …
Global university reputation and rankings
In this study, we used culturomics (i.e. analysis of large electronic datasets for the study of human culture) in order to study the use of the names of various universities in the digitized corpus of English books. In particular, we used the Google Ngram viewer (available online: http://books.google.com/ngrams) to produce the frequencies of the names of 13 US, 5 UK and 4 Canadian universities in the English books and examined how these frequenci…
Parallels in economic and ecosystem crises
We describe the analogy between the state of the economic crisis and the state of global fisheries, both of which are timely and important issues. We believe that there are some lessons from the economic crisis that may benefit global fisheries, if viewed and addressed properly. In a wide ethical framework, the crisis in the global fisheries sector should be taken as seriously as the economic crisis and confronted with similarly drastic measures.…
On impact factors and university rankings
In this essay we explore parallels in the birth, evolution and final 'banning' of journal impact factors (IFs) and university rankings (URs). IFs and what has become popularized as global URs (GURs) were born in 1975 and 2003, respectively, and the obsession with both 'tools' has gone global. They have become important instruments for a diverse range of academic and higher education issues (IFs: e.g. for hiring and promoting faculty, giving and d…
Which came first
Global university rankings are provided by several organisations based on various criteria, most of which are, directly or indirectly, related to the wealth of the university. The main objective of this work was to examine the effect of money on rankings and vice versa. First, we examined the relationship between global university rankings and professors’ salaries and found an asymptotic trend for all ranks of professors across the top 200 US uni…
The ethics of human impacts and the future of the earth’s ecosystems
In this Theme Section, a selection of the International Ecology Institute Prize laureates and authors of the Excellence in Ecology books present their thoughts on the ethics of our impact on, and the future of, the earth's ecosystems. The 5 essays address various issues: (1) the longer-term role of humans on the earth and (2) the earth's capacity for supporting humans; (3) the diversity of microbes surrounding us and the allergic desensitization …
Global university rankings uncovered
University rankings have gained growing attention from university administrations and faculty members, markets, governments, mass media and the public at large, affecting nearly all aspects directly or indirectly related to academia. This Theme Section includes 12 essays from 16 authors, coming from 9 countries (i.e. Singapore, the USA, the UK
Tenure and academic deadwood
The introduction of market forces into higher education (i.e. marketization) in recent decades goes along with a sharp decline in tenured positions offered, accompanied by polemic voices against tenure. The main claim, that tenure reduces the productivity of senior faculty, has not been thoroughly tested, with existing scarce evidence being controversial. We tested this hypothesis by analyzing the number of publications of 2136 currently full pro…
Nailing down ‘academic’ freedom and tenure in Greek research institutions
In this essay we describe the different blows that research in Greece has suffered because of the economic crisis (i.e. drastic budgetary cuts, hiring freezes for new positions, severe salary cuts, and austerity-driven brain-drain), despite the fact that Greek research is prospering in terms of publications and citations. In addition, we discuss the last blow to Greek research; notably, the abolishment of tenure and the change in the status of re…
Academic freedom and tenure
ESEP Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics Contact the journal RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsTheme Sections ESEP 15:1-5 (2016) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esep00168 Academic freedom and tenure: introduction Konstantinos I. Stergiou1,2,*, Stylianos Somarakis1 1Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Aghios Kosm…
The most famous fish
Despite the historically close connection between humans and fish, the question 'What is the most famous fish species?' has never been asked. I used Google Ngram viewer to estimate the frequency of times the common names of 250 fishes appear in the corpus of digitized English books published between 1800 and 2000. I propose the 'famon' as a unit of fame, with 1 famon = 10 -6 relative % Ngram frequency. Twelve of the 250 common names are words whi…
Open data in the life sciences
Full and open access is promoted as the international norm for the exchange of scientific data by numerous scientific and political bodies. In the contemporary digital era, since scientists are both consumers and producers of data, they inevitably play a crucial role in defining the level of data accessibility. Yet, it is individual researchers usually who resist the release of their data. Through a global online questionnaire survey, the percept…
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