Using Publish or Perish to remember our field's key contributors

Shows you how you can use Publish or Perish to assemble a complete publication and citation record when writing academic obituaries

Anne-Wil Harzing - (updated Thu 2 Oct 2025 14:30)

In 2022, the Academy of International Business started an initiative to honour deceased AIB Fellows through a bibliographic analysis of their publications. The analyses are conducted by the AIB Fellows bibliometrician (currently yours truly) and are based on the Fellows' Google Scholar Profiles, using the Publish or Perish software.

This is a duty that is both sad and inspiring. Each analysis includes a review of the Fellow's key research areas and publications in these areas in chronological order. Hence, the analyses provide not just a comprehensive overview of an individual's record, but also fascinating insights into the history of IB research.

Note: This initiative does not cover Honorary Fellows, Fellows who have moved to Inactive Status, Fellows who were mainly elected for their service or education and do not have a substantive publication record, or Fellows who do not have a Google Scholar Profile. 

Analyses to date

To date I have written up six of these analyses, each of which can be accessed separately:

 

In my earlier blogpost in June 2019 [Writing laudations or obituaries?] I reviewed the work of Sumantra Ghoshal. His book Managing Across Borders with Christopher Bartlett, first published in 1989, was the inspiration for my own PhD work on control mechanisms in multinational companies and I was shocked to learn of his untimely death at only 55 in 2004.

Earlier projects in this series

Publish or Perish is a Swiss army knife!

These are just a few of the hundreds of nuggets of quality information that you can find using the free Publish or Perish software. Are you interested in finding out more about how you can use the software to conduct effective author, journal, topic, and affiliation searches?

Do you want to learn how to use it for tenure or promotion applications, conducting literature reviews and meta-analyses, deciding where to submit your paper, preparing for job interviews, writing laudations or obituaries, finding reviewers or keynote speakers, uncovering “citation connections” between scholars, and doing bibliometric research?

To read about all of this and much much more, buy my brand-new guide in my Crafting your career in academia series: Using the Publish or Perish software. At 375 pages it is chock-full of tips and tricks on how to get the most out of the software. I promise you will discover at least a dozen use cases that you had never even thought about before!

Other books in the series

My book series Crafting your career in academia launched in August 2022 with a book on Writing Effective Promotion Applications. The series is a collection of short guides dealing with various aspects of working in academia. It is based on my popular blog.

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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.

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