Welcome to Harzing.com

This website includes Anne-Wil's resumé, research programs, and publications, including her academic career guides. It also hosts the CYGNA Women in Academia pages, the Journal Quality List, and the Publish or Perish software for citation analysis.

The Harzing.com blog features posts on academic publishing, creating research impact, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, and Positive Academia. If you are an early career academic, your best starting point is the Working in academia page.

Harzing.com has been online (with some periodic restyling) since 1999; it runs to 800 pages and over one million words. New and recently updated pages >>

Legal notice: If you wish to link to this website, feel free to 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 1997-2026.

Featured pages and blog posts

Book series: Crafting your career in academia

Thematic books on various aspects of academic careers: journal publishing, research diffusion through social media, research impact, and promotion applications

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

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

CYGNA: Creating hope for alternative futures!

Reports on our 71st CYGNA meeting where Christa Sathish inspired us to analyse our current academic environment and co-create hope manifestos for alternative futures

Value for money in the UK REF

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