52 pages tagged "white papers"

My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

Tells the story of the eight most significant failures in my academic career and outlines how every single one of them had unexpected upsides

19 May 2026 (updated 10 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

On failures in academia: My PhD journey

Tells the story of my PhD dissertation nearly 30 years after it was all but failed

19 May 2026 (updated 10 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Doing research in an analog time

Documents how technologies during my PhD were vastly different from what we now take for granted

26 Apr 2026 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Working with ISI data: Beware of categorisation problems

ISI appears to regularly misclassify journal articles containing original research into the "review" or "proceedings paper" category, rather than assigning them to the appropriate "article" category.

06 Feb 2016 (updated 06 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The myth of the academic superstar - or why name disambiguation is crucial

Shows how a lack of name disambiguation leads to a serious distortion of the Essential Science Indicators ranking of the top-1% most cited academics

19 Jan 2026 (updated 06 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

You finally made it to full professor, now what?

Crafting your academic identity and sustaining it in retirement

15 Sep 2025 (updated 05 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Welcome

Home page of Anne-Wil's website

06 Feb 2016 (updated 05 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Argues that post-92 Business Schools pull above their weight in many elements of the REF, that QR funding should be distributed more equally, and that we should have a ring-fenced budget to promote sector-wide learning

06 Sep 2025 (updated 03 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

My PhD - a story that almost didn't end well

Short introduction to my latest white paper: On failures in academia - my PhD story

24 Jun 2026 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Did you break your wrist too?

Managing your first year of the recovery process from a broken wrist - my experiences

07 Apr 2026 (updated 12 Jun 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why sometimes a failure can be a blessing in disguise

Short introduction to my latest white paper: My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

10 Jun 2026 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Tripped over a tree root? Fell off your bike? Accident in the gym?

Short intro to my white paper featuring my experiences in the first year of my recovery process from a broken wrist

03 Jun 2026 (updated 04 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

White papers

A list of Anne-Wil's white papers with linked access

06 Feb 2016 (updated 30 May 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Reflections on staff development

Provides an overview of my work in the area of researcher development

20 Mar 2023 (updated 22 May 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Doing research in the analog 20th century - a lifetime ago?

Short introduction to my white paper that documents how technologies during my PhD were vastly different from what we now take for granted

20 May 2026 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The ABC of research across career stages

How to navigate the - sometimes choppy - waters of research (and academia) across career stages

04 Mar 2025 (updated 15 May 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

What do an ECR and a broken wrist have in common?

A short introduction to my white paper that discusses the many similarities between recovering from a broken wrist and waiting for your first publication

06 May 2026 (updated 06 May 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why waiting for your first publication as an ECR and having a broken wrist have a lot in common

Discusses the many similarities between recovering from a broken wrist and waiting for your first publication

05 Apr 2026 (updated 26 Apr 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Myth busted: most academic research DOES get cited

How click-bait was transformed into “fact” through poor academic referencing practices

23 Oct 2025 (updated 09 Apr 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The art of academic writing

Compares academic writing to various art forms: sculpting, drawing, painting, making music, and acting

04 Sep 2023 (updated 13 Mar 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The individual annualised h-index: an ecologically rational heuristic?

Studies a matched sample of University of Melbourne (Associate) Professors to test the hIa as an ecologically rational metric that is unbiased across disciplines, career stage, and gender, as well as predictive for promotion, mobility and awards.

01 Jan 2024 (updated 01 Dec 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

From h-index to hIa: The ins and outs of research metrics

Introduces the hI,annual as a new research metric that allows comparison across disciplines and career stages

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to address your teacher?

Documents large differences between countries in the way students normally expect to address their teachers.

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

In defence of the Business School: One myth and four truths

Argues we need to be prouder of being Business School academics. We deliver research that is both high-quality and societally impactful on a shoestring budget, whilst educating a fifth of all students in the UK.

29 Apr 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Do Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science speak your language?

Discusses the coverage of non-English language publications in three major databases for citation analysis

12 Jun 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to become an author of ESI Highly Cited Papers?

Documents how unscrupulous predatory open access journals can distort citation counts

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Gender and geographical diversity in the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies

Reviews the gender and geographical diversity of the premier IB journal over time and discusses the impact of editors

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Citation analysis across disciplines: The impact of different data sources and citation metrics

Documents how different data ources and different citations metrics might lead to very different conclusions in cross-disciplinary comparisons

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Comparing the Google Scholar h-index with the ISI Journal Impact Factor

Proposes an alternative metric – Hirsch’s h-index – and data source – Google Scholar – to assess journal impact.

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Key Issues in International Survey Research

Explores the key challenges in international survey research at different stages of the research process

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Reflections on norms for the h-index and related indices

Provides norm scores for the h-index and related measures for Management and International Business

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar as a new data source for citation analysis

Documents the advantages and disadvantages of using Google Scholar as a source for citation analysis

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Musings of a recent graduate

Epilogue of my PhD thesis including my reflections on international management research

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Writing coursework assignments

Summarizes some key issues relating to coursework assignments: grammar, spelling, and references

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Reflections on the h-index

Introduces the h-index, m-quotient, g-index, contemporary h-index and individual h-index

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage

Invited prologue for a book on Google Scholar

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The four P's of publishing

Explains how performance, practice, participation and persistance are needed to publish academic papers

03 Dec 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?

White paper that proposes replacing the REF with a metrics-based exercise

02 Aug 2017 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The four C's of getting cited

Explains how competence, collaboration, care and communication help to ensure your work is getting the citation impact it deserves

22 Aug 2017 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The mystery of the phantom reference

Shows how sloppy writing and sloppy quality control lead to a non-existing article being cited nearly 400 times

26 Oct 2017 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Gender bias and meritocracy: How to make career advancement in Economics more inclusive

Part of a Dossier on Women in Economics published in Economisch Statistische Berichten

03 Nov 2018 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Research Impact 101

Provides an overview of six key issues in the assessment of research impact.

18 Jun 2022 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Highly cited academics in Business & Management over the years

Analysis of the top-50 most highly cited academics in Business & Management and its increasing level of diversity over the years

14 Nov 2023 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Doing a literature review: an 8-step process

Overview of my presentation in the Middlesex University PhD coursework - with embedded videos of the 8 steps

01 Jan 2024 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Open Syllabus: a treasure-trove for research and teaching

How to use Open Syllabus to evidence your own teaching impact, conduct curiosity research, and search for suitable textbooks

17 Oct 2024 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

SAGEPolicyProfiles: a treasure-trove for discovering policy impact

How to use SagePolicyProfiles to learn more about, and evidence, the policy impact of your academic research

21 Oct 2024 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Sustaining motivation in change processes: Reframe your mindsets & actions

Seven steps that may help you to sustain your motivation in any change process by reframing both your mindsets and your actions

26 Dec 2024 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Where are you from? Not "just" a conversation starter

What you mean and what your conversation partner feels are not always the same thing.

27 Jan 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Academic etiquette & service in the age of GenAI

Why I am concerned about the increasing use of GenAI in interpersonal interactions

27 Jan 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

GenAI or GenIA - Use it to Generate Inspiration (if you must), not Automation

Does GenAI reinforce competition by celebrating the individual hero genius scientist, leading us to forget that academic discovery and engagement is about teams, not about individuals?

27 Jan 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Everything you need to know before taking on an academic leadership or service role

Two times seven questions and seven tips to help you decide whether, when, and where to embark on these roles

23 Oct 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Value for money in the UK Research Excellence Framework

Short summary of my white paper: Value for money in the UK REF: Why invest in post-92 Business Schools and sector-wide collaboration?

15 Oct 2025 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing