{"id":1373,"date":"2010-11-17T10:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/11\/17\/u-of-alexandria-hits-the-big-time\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T10:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:57:55","slug":"u-of-alexandria-hits-the-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/11\/17\/u-of-alexandria-hits-the-big-time\/","title":{"rendered":"U of Alexandria hits the big time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first heard that an Egyptian university placed fourth worldwide in scholarly productivity, and that it was due to the work of a single scholar, I couldn’t help thinking of Graham Harman churning out brilliant philosophical tomes out of American University in Cairo… Turns out this guy beats Graham handily in quantity and<\/em> — inversely speaking (!) — in quality. A good reason to edit one’s own journal?<\/p>\n

See Questionable Science Behind Academic Rankings – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I first heard that an Egyptian university placed fourth worldwide in scholarly productivity, and that it was due to the work of a single scholar, I couldn’t help thinking of Graham Harman churning out brilliant philosophical tomes out of American University in Cairo… Turns out this guy beats Graham handily in quantity and — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-m9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7677,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/06\/21\/beatnik-brothers-in-parrhesia\/","url_meta":{"origin":1373,"position":0},"title":"“Beatnik Brothers” in Parrhesia","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 21, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The new issue of Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy\u00a0includes work by Quentin Meillassoux, Tristan Garcia, a review panel discussing\u00a0Katrin Pahl's Tropes of Transport: Hegel and Emotion, and a piece by me on the objects-processes debate in speculative realist philosophy. 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