Athanassios C Tsikliras
Biographic Data
| ID | 6795506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Athanassios C Tsikliras |
| GIVEN NAMES | Athanassios C |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsikliras |
| SIGNATURE | TSIKLIRAS A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9074-3259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Progress towards ending overfishing in the Northeast Atlantic
Artificial upward trends in Greek marine landings
Anecdotal information on dolphin-fisheries interactions based on empirical knowledge of fishers in the northeastern Mediterranean Sea
Anecdotal information provided by local fishers is an invaluable tool in the study of marine mammal-fisheries interactions. This paper summarizes empirical and anecdotal information voluntarily provided by fishers during a survey monitoring the damage to coastal fisheries caused by dolphins. We visited 23 fishing harbours along the northern Aegean Sea coastline and monitored the fishing gear of 113 coastal fishers in order to identify the damage …
Transnational Corporations as ‘Keystone Actors’ in Marine Ecosystems
Keystone species have a disproportionate influence on the structure and function of ecosystems. Here we analyze whether a keystone-like pattern can be observed in the relationship between transnational corporations and marine ecosystems globally. We show how thirteen corporations control 11-16% of the global marine catch (9-13 million tons) and 19-40% of the largest and most valuable stocks, including species that play important roles in their re…
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…
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
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.…
Chasing after the high impact
In this paper, I present the perspectives of a young non-native English speaking scientist from a southern European country (Greece) on the impact factor system that is commonly used to assess the performance of countries, institutions, and scientists, including the role this plays in the selection of a journal to which to submit a manuscript. Although young scientists may not always be aware of the advantages and pitfalls of the impact factor sy…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Chasing after the high impact
In this paper, I present the perspectives of a young non-native English speaking scientist from a southern European country (Greece) on the impact factor system that is commonly used to assess the performance of countries, institutions, and scientists, including the role this plays in the selection of a journal to which to submit a manuscript. Although young scientists may not always be aware of the advantages and pitfalls of the impact factor sy…
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.…
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
Transnational Corporations as ‘Keystone Actors’ in Marine Ecosystems
Keystone species have a disproportionate influence on the structure and function of ecosystems. Here we analyze whether a keystone-like pattern can be observed in the relationship between transnational corporations and marine ecosystems globally. We show how thirteen corporations control 11-16% of the global marine catch (9-13 million tons) and 19-40% of the largest and most valuable stocks, including species that play important roles in their re…
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…
Anecdotal information on dolphin-fisheries interactions based on empirical knowledge of fishers in the northeastern Mediterranean Sea
Anecdotal information provided by local fishers is an invaluable tool in the study of marine mammal-fisheries interactions. This paper summarizes empirical and anecdotal information voluntarily provided by fishers during a survey monitoring the damage to coastal fisheries caused by dolphins. We visited 23 fishing harbours along the northern Aegean Sea coastline and monitored the fishing gear of 113 coastal fishers in order to identify the damage …
Artificial upward trends in Greek marine landings
Progress towards ending overfishing in the Northeast Atlantic
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Fishing (4 works) · Marine and fisheries research (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Biology (3 works)