I like the quote he chose from Dr. Gordon Shrum from his 1961 convocation address at UBC:

"It is said that there are two kinds of education, the kind you have to get to live and the kind you have to live to get".

He has 127 entries/papers in google scholar compared to 88 for Jago and 14 for Cozzetto. Quantetively, he is a better scholar and researcher than both.

He has 23,000 entries on Google, compared to 436,000 entries for Charles Jago and
4180 entries for Don Cozzetto. So he is less known than Jago, but better known than Cozzetto.

Unfortunately, his first task in UNBC will be to deal with the ongoing legal action against UNBC for discrimination, if Jago fails to settle the discrimination case and reinstate the faculty over the next few weeks.

Literally speaking, Jago should clean the UNBC house before handing the keys to the new UNBC president, this time around.

And the number of google entries is an indicator of what, other than the number of Google entries?

The Boston Strangler has 295,000 entries and Saddam Hussein has 10.6 million entries. Jay Leno has 10.5 million entries.

Barack Obama has 154 million entries, 10 times as many as John Lennon and 15 times as many a John F. Kennedy

Then again, there are only 4,340 entries for "charles jago" and 935 for "dr charles jago" only 2 times as many as "dr george iwama" who had 460 entries. "dr don cozzetto gets 196

And using full names in brackets at all times, my mother gets 10, I get 168 .... and my wife gets 517, thus beating out two of the UNBC presidents. And they did not even interview her.

I noticed that Carlton university refers to him as Dr George Katsushi Iwama and UNBC media has dropped his middle name from the public announcement.

The number of google hits only indicates how famous/notorious someone is, but google scholar is different as it distinguishes between publications and citations of publications. However, I don't get anywhere near 88 publications for Jago. In addition to his (unpublished) Ph.D. dissertation, I find three journal articles:

Jago, Charles. 1979.
The "Crisis of the Aristocracy" in Seventeenth-century Castile"
Past & Present 1979 84(1):60-90

Jago, Charles. 1981.
Habsburg Absolutism and the Cortes of Castile
The American Historical Review, 86:307-326.

Jago, Charles. 1985.
Philip II and the Cortes of Castile: the Case of the Cortes of 1576
Past & Present 1985 109(1):24-43.

That's consistent with what I have seen of him in the past: its a very thin scholarly background. Jago seems to have gone into administration very early.

My searches of Google Scholar yield 11 publications for Don Cozzetto, 76 for George Iwama. Number of publications by itself is not a great indicator as it doesn't take into account the quality and importance of the work, and people tend to produce more publications in some fields than in others, but Iwama's 76 vs. Jago's 3 is a huge difference. On the basis of this information, one has to draw the (tentative) conclusion that Iwama has been much more productive as a biologist than Jago has as a historian.

Good post Gus. Sometimes the wheat has to be separated from the chaff.

The fact that he has a degree in Zoology should serve him well at UNBC because it has been operated as a Zoo for the past 5/10 years.

His job shouldnt be too difficult because UNBC is stuck in a time warp. Student enrollments basically the same for the past 5 years with no indication whatsoever that this will change in the next 5 years. (Increase could take place if this recession lasts for a few years)

We have the doctors taking their training at UNBC which has been highly touted, and of course the spin is that if they train in the North they will stay in the North. This concept is much like the Airport Runway expansion project, that if you **build it, they will come** Neither one hase been proven to be true yet.

It is almost impossible to figure out how this University is going to maintain its present student population, let alone increase it. Where are these students going to come from?????

Practically every City and Town in North Central BC is decreasing in population, and in students entering the school system. We have to compete with the big Universities in the South, plus Victoria, Nanaimo, Kelowna, Kamloops, etc;.

Student enrollment will be the big challenge for the new President.

The old President left under strange circumstances, and we never got any explanation, nor did we ever get any explanation,as to why Steve Hoig, left the Airport Authority. Seems if we as taxpayers pay the salaries for these people, we could at least have some insight into why they leave.

I suspect in both cases their severence package included a gag order.

Palopu, are you disputing Google Scholar results as a chaff??

In the absence of any other measure, Google scholar is a good measure for academic performance of people.

Not all of entries of google scholar are papers and some are references. You can search full professor's name in UNBC and see some of them have less than 20 entries on the Google scholar which is ridiculus. Full professors in other universities have 100+ entries.

I should also repeat that unfortunately, Iwama's first task in UNBC will be to deal with racism and discrimination in UNBC.

Nowicki. No. I was thinking in terms of Google entries on people, not realizing that Google Scholar was specific to literature publications, etc; Thanks for the heads up;


Any idea what happened to Mr. Cozzetto????

I had a go at Google Scholar. Put in an individual's name who is in his final year of his PhD studies. He has passed his orals and is now writing the thesis for publication.

His name in quotation marks pops up 9 times for three different scientific articles, always co-authored, and appearing in several publications. Even as author and delimiting it to works in two main categories that his work would be publishes under, it comes up with the same results.

When I drop the quotation marks, there are 360 instances where one or both names pop up. The name is not a very common one to start with.

As billposer has pointed out, the search engine skims the surface and one has to start doing some serious digging to weed out duplications, co-authorships, etc. etc.

His thesis advisor, delimited by quotation marks, has 438 hits. As author, he has 110 hits.

My conclusion so far is that google is a poor tool to determine the number of distinct papers an individual has written and how they measure up against others from the point of view of importance.

I think the best way to do that is know which are the 2 or 3 most credible journals in the area of study being explored and see whether the individual has been published in them and how frequently.

Palopu, I replied to your question in my last comment and unfortunately, it was deleted from the site.

Palopu
Time for you to enrol at UNBC,you have a lot to offer and learn

Read the comment below http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/42431557.html

which gives details of discrimination in UNBC. My earlier post on the same topic of discrimination in UNBC was deleted in this site. I believe the media has a responsibility to put pressure on UNBC to end discrimination and not helping UNBC in continuing an illegal discriminatory practice which is against the Canadian charter of rights.

By "this site" in my previous post, I was referring to opinion250.com.

Gus,
I am waiting for you to write for us how many times your mother and wife appear at Google scholar. You forgot to mention
them this time around.

Nowicki
I have read your reference.
I don't get your point.
Please be specific when criticizing UNBC
It is important
Please

I have still a copy of my previous post which was deleted here on opinion250.com which analyzed the situation. But I am not going to resend it here on this site. Unlike the print media, the flow of information cannot be easily blocked on the Internet. The reference that I gave
on BClocalnews is specific enough and I will read that site more.

I observe and try to analyze the situations and that is my job, and I thought it will help the new UNBC president Dr Iwama to have a very clear picture of what is going on in UNBC so that he succeeds and not face the same unfortunate fate of Dr Brunt and Dr Cozzetto in UNBC.

But it seems there are some in PG media which do not agree with my approach.
Fair enough, but please tell us the
story of why Dr Brunt, the previous UNBC VP/provost, resigned from his post in UNBC. Was it related to this ongoing
legal case? Who where the main players? Are they still in UNBC, or have resigned, retired or are on leave?

We are hungry for that story.