Welcome to Harzing.com

This website includes Anne-Wil's areas of research and online papers, resources to assist with academic publishing and careers, assessment of research and journal quality, as well as software for citation analysis.

The Harzing.com blog includes posts on: academic publishing, doing research, academic etiquette, using the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, research focus, and positive academia. If you are an early of mid career academic, your best starting point might be the Working in academia page.

New book 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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About Anne-Wil

For more information about Anne-Wil's academic career, please see her Resumé, Research programs, and Publications.

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This web site has been online (with some periodic restyling) since 1999. If you wish to link to this website, feel free do so. Please do not copy any content except for your own personal use. Unless otherwise noted, this website and its contents are © Anne-Wil Harzing 1997-2023.

Recent blog posts

Improve your Research Profile (7): Follow the 7 steps for impact
15 Mar 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The seventh in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation, and impact. Provides a simple 7-step process to improve your research reputation and impact.

Harzing.com blog 7 years old!
08 Mar 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's seventh anniversary with a recap of the most read posts

How prepare a large-scale ESRC funding application?
27 Feb 2023 - Bianca Stumbitz
Seminar in the Management, Leadership & Organizations Department seminar series at Middlesex University

What made my early work impactful?
20 Feb 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Talks about the breadth of the audience and the importance of novelty and good titles in getting your work cited

Improve your Research Profile (6): The why and how of Social Media
13 Feb 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The sixth in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Discusses the various social media platorms and the pros and cons of social media use.

Positive Leadership Award
06 Feb 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Presents my submission materials for the Positive Leadership Award, summarising my work in this field

Managing (linguistic) diversity in MNCs
30 Jan 2023 - Sylwia Ciuk
Overview of the key insights in our HRMJ paper and reflections from behind the scenes

Seven signs it’s time to get out: spotting toxic collaborations in academia
23 Jan 2023 - Martyna Śliwa
Advice on how to spot the signs that a collaborative relationship isn’t nourishing to us and is possibly not worth continuing

CYGNA @50 and Christmas celebration 2022
16 Jan 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 50th (!!!) CYGNA meeting. Strikes thwarted our big plans, but we still had fun.

Improve your Research Profile (5): The 4Cs of getting cited
09 Jan 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The fifth in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Explains what to do - ethically! - to improve the chances of your work being cited.

Five lessons from my first publications
02 Jan 2023 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Talks about courage, journal rankings, 2nd chances, co-authors & persistance as the lessons I learned from my early publications

Improve your Research Profile (4): Citation analysis in the PoP software
19 Dec 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The fourth in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Explains how to use the Publish or Perish software to demonstrate your research impact.