Anne-Wil Harzing
Anne-Wil Harzing is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. 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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266 pages and blog posts
The many benefits of a shared language in multinationals
Reports on a study outlining the relationship between shared language and knowledge flows
Why metrics can (and should?) be used in the Social Sciences
Reports on my presentation presented at "The Future of Research Assessment Peer Review vs. Metrics"
Experimental research in IB: Presenting at CERIB Kingston
Reports on my presentation at the launch of CERIB (Centre for Experimental Research in International Business)
Managing Expatriates in China: A Language and Identity Perspective
Full information about our research monograph in the Palgrave Studies in Chinese Management series
Publications
Overview of books and links to other publications
History of Harzing.com
Complete list of significant changes to Harzing.com
The distinctiveness of European management scholarship
About common sense scholarship that prefers artistic rigour over technical rigour
Compete or cooperate: does it depend on the language?
Shows how using the English language might prime competitive behaviour
What if fully agree doesn't mean the same thing across cultures?
Explains how response style difference between countries can distort cross-national comparisons
Trailblazers of diversity: editors and editorial board diversity
Documents my research with Isabel Metz on gender and international diversity in editorial boards
Hablas vielleicht un peu la mia language?
Systematically reviews the impact of language differences on the HQ-subsidiary relationship
Why is learning the host country language important for expatriates?
A new online paper on the impact of host country language learning on expatriate local relationships
Gender and geographical diversity in the JIBS editorial board: an update
Announces an update of white paper on editorial board diversity
Babel in Business: The Role of Language in International Busines
My inaugural lecture at Middlesex University, Wednesday 13 April 2016
International HRM & Staffing Policies
Research program 1: International HR, expatriation, inpatriation, knowledge sharing and identity confirmation
Language in International Business
Research program 5: Language barrier and its solutions, language in HQ-subsidiary relationships, language and cooperative vs. competitive behaviour
Research
Overview of Anne-Wil's six research programs
Publications by year
All of Anne-Wil's publications organised by year
Publications by type
All of Anne-Wil's publications organised by type (journal articles, books, chapters, conferences, white papers, etc.)
Language in International Business: A review and agenda for future research
A new online paper reviewing 264 articles on language in IB
Australian research output in Economics & Business: quantity over quality?
Shows the discrepancy between research productivity and research impact for Australian research in Economics & Business
How to address other academics by email?
Provides suggestions on the best way to address academics by email
CYGNA: Building your academic brand through social media
Introduces CYGNA and two presentations about social media in academia
White papers and presentations
A list of Anne-Wil's white papers and presentation with linked access
Bibliometrics in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Reports on my presentation at a workshop in March 2017 organised by the UK LIS-Bibliometrics group
Publish or Perish: Realising Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis
Reports on a presentation at the Google Scholar Day: Changing current evaluation paradigms
Online papers
This page contains pre-publication versions of all of my accepted papers
Publish or Perish
Explains the use of Publish or Perish, its metrics, and lists training resources
Quick overview
Announcements and previous news items about the Cygna network
Meetings 2014-2015
Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2014-2015
Meetings 2016-2017
Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2016-2017
Meetings 2015-2016
Overview of Cygna network meetings in the academic year 2015-2016
Meetings
Information about Cygna meetings past and present
Female academics: Wives of the organization?
Describes how gendered interactions in the workplace subvert success for female academics
Inspirational readings for female academics
Inspirational readings about research that matters, interviews with female academics, and interesting blogs, websites and books
Benchmarking research performance
Reports on my presentation at the EFMD Research Leadership Programme
Free articles in international business
Provides a list of my articles in the area of international business that are freely accessible from the publisher
From h-index to hIa: The ins and outs of research metrics
Explains two key research metrics and compares three sources of citation data: the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar.
Measuring the impact of academic research: Best practices and open questions
Reports on a workshop at Birkbeck University in December 2016
Twenty-three articles with free publisher access
Alerts reader to free access of official publisher versions of my articles
My first European Academy of Management conference
Reports on my presentations at the EURAM 2016 conference on Language in Academia and the Future of Management Education & Research
Publish or Perish increases transparency in academic appointments
Illustrates how PoP has been used to expose nepotism and incompetence
Rocket Science? Networking and External Engagement for Academic Success
Presents the reasons why networking and external engagement constitute complementary skills
Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage
A prologue for a book on Google Scholar
Don't write mass emails (2): asking for help
Shows some typical student emails asking for help out of the blue
Reflections on norms for the h-index and related indices
Uses Academy of Management and Academy of International Business Presidents to present aspirational norm scores
Free articles on (journal) rankings
Provides a list of my articles in the area of journal rankings that are freely accessible from the publisher
The four P's of publishing
Explains how performance, practice, participation and persistance are needed to publish academic papers
Why does my paper get a desk-reject time and again?
About the importance of joining the journal’s “conversation”
Please be polite and considerate
About the importance of appreciating academic volunteers
Presenting your case for tenure or promotion?
Shows how to make your case for tenure or promotion by comparing your record to a relevant peer group
Publish or Perish tutorial now in book format
Introduces the Publish or Perish tutorial: 80 easy tips to get the best out of the software
How to become an author of ESI Highly Cited Papers?
Documents how unscrupulous predatory open access journals can distort citation counts
How to write successful funding applications?
Provides ten tips for successful funding applications
EURAM Meet the editors panel
Reports on a meet the editors panel at the 2016 EURAM conference
Historic screen shots of Harzing.com
Screenshots of previous incarnations of Harzing.com
Reviewing and editorial experience
Lists Anne-Wil's editorial activities and editorial board memberships
Journal of Global Mobility Best EURAM paper
Shea Fan's paper "The Benefits of Being Understood" won the best paper award of the standing track on Expatriation
Journals and magazines
Anne-Wil's choice of journals and magazines
Not a Post About Gender and Academia
Heather Jeffrey interviews me for the Huffington post
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
Expatriation and international jobs
Anne-Wil's choice of resources relating to expatriation and working internationally
Academic software
List three useful software products and presents our software manifesto
British culture
Anne-Wil's take on British culture: humour, indirectness, informality, patience, friendliness, and politeness
Key Issues in International Survey Research
Explores the key challenges in international survey research at different stages of the research process
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.
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.
Harzing.com paper series
Introduces the Harzing.com paper series
Memberships
Lists Anne-Wil's membership of academic and professional organisations
Musings of recent graduate
Epilogue of my PhD thesis including my reflections on international management research
External resources
Landing page for a range of external resources
Academic, professional and international organisations
Anne-Wil's choice of academic, professional and international organisations
Cross-cultural and language resources
Anne-Wil's choice of resources relating to cross-cultural management and language
International business resources
Anne-Wil's choice of resources relating to international business
British educational system
Anne-Wil's take on the British educational system: grading system, how to get high marks, coursework, groupwork, presentations, interaction with your tutor
Culture shock
Explaining culture shock and how to deal with it
Working in the UK
Anne-Wil's reflections on working in the United Kingdom
Living and working in Melbourne
Provides background information useful for those contemplating to work in Melbourne
Living and working abroad
Landing page for resources related to living and working abroad
Frequently Asked Questions about the JQL
Answers the three mostly asked questions about the Journal Quality List
Writing coursework assignments
Summarizes some key issues relating to coursework assignments: grammare, spelling, and references
Reflections on the h-index
Introduces the h-index, m-quotient, g-index, contemporary h-index and individual h-index
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
How to address your teacher?
Documents large differences between countries in the way students normally expect to address their teachers.
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
Managing the Multinationals: An international study of control mechanisms
Full information about the published version of my PhD dissertation
International Human Resource Management
Full information about the 1st edition of my IHRM textbook
International Human Resource Management, 2/E
Full information about the 2nd edition of my IHRM textbook
International Human Resource Management, 3/E
Full information about the 3rd edition of my IHRM textbook
International Human Resource Management, 4/E
Full information about the 4th edition of my IHRM textbook
The Publish or Perish Book: Doing bibliometric research with Google Scholar
Full information about the paperback version of the Publish or Perish Book, part 3
The Publish or Perish Book: Citation analysis for academics and administrators
Full information about the paperback version of the Publish or Perish Book, part 2
The Publish or Perish Book: A guide to the software
Full information about the paperback version of the Publish or Perish Book, part 1
The Publish or Perish Book (Paperback)
Full information about the paperback version of the Publish or Perish Book
Ten career-best publications
Choice of ten career-best articles in 2011
Doing International Research
Useful websites, papers and presentations for doing international research
Fundraising
List of Anne-Wil's grants
Administrative experience
Summary of Anne-Wil's formal administrative roles and experience since 1997
Resources
Introduces a collection of resource for doing international research as well resources related to academic publishing and citation analysis
Research supervision
Research supervision philosophy and list of current and past research students with publications resulting from their PhD
Teaching experience
Summary of Anne-Wil's teaching experience, courses taught, teaching philosophy, and student feedback
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
Would you ask a male academic the same question?
Discusses the expectations of service-oriented behaviour by female academics
Should we distance ourselves from the cultural distance concept?
Argues IB research would do well to reconsider its fascination with distance measures
Six Essential Science Indicators highly-cited papers
Lists six of my papers that are Web of Science highly-cited papers, i.e. top 1% most cited in their fields
The International Research Process
Research program 3: Loosely coupled projects or articles that focus on research process issues in international research: discarding the myths of expatriate failure rates, European homogeneity, the cultural distance concept. International mail surveys: timing, response rates, response styles
Awards received
List of awards and honors received by Anne-Wil
The double-edged sword of ethnic similarity
Introduces Shea Fan's work on ethnic identity confirmation in a Chinese host context
How to conduct a longitudinal literature review?
Shows you how to do a longitudinal literature review with Publish or Perish
Author evaluation: Laudatio or obituary
Publish or Perish tutorial
Quality and Impact of Academic Research
Research program 6: Editors & editorial board diversity, comparing research output across countries, Google Scholar and bibliometrics for the Social Sciences
Transfer of HRM Practices in MNCs
Research program 4: an insight into the interplay of cultural, institutional and organisational factors that affect the transfer of HRM practices across borders.
HQ-Subsidiary Relationships in MNCs
Research program 2: MNC typologies, entry modes, country-of-origin, subsidiary typologies, MNC knowledge flows, and language in HQ-subsidiary relationships
Please don't respond to the entire mailing list
About the irritating email behaviour of sending a personal response to hundreds of addressees
59th edition of the Journal Quality List on-line
New version of the Journal Quality List with the 2016 FNEGE update and the 2017 HCRES update
Journal Quality List
Presents a collation of 18 journal rankings in the broad area of Economics, Finance, Accounting, Management, and Marketing
58th edition of the Journal Quality List on-line
New version of the Journal Quality List with the 2016 ABDC update and the new FT50 ranking
Resumé
Short resumé of Anne-Wil Harzing with academic experience, research interests, publications, reviewing & editorial experiences, and other services to the academic community
How to conduct searches with Microsoft Academic
Explains how to use Microsoft Academic as a new data source in Publish or Perish
Microsoft Academic (Search): a Phoenix arisen from the ashes?
Assesses Microsoft Academic coverage through a detailed comparison with Google Scholar, the Web of Science, and Scopus
Microsoft Academic: Is the Phoenix getting wings?
Compares citation coverage in the new Microsoft Academic with Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science
Publish or Perish in the news
Summarizes new coverage and user feedback for PoP, lists training resources and papers written using PoP
How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia
Provides twelve suggestions on how to prevent burn-out and keep your sanity
The benefits of being understood
Introducing Shea Fan's work on the role of ethnic identity confirmation in the relationship between expatriates and host country employees
Complex author questions: very easy!
Details how to run author searches for multiple authors
Health warning: Might contain multiple personalities
Shows how a lack of name disambiguation leads to serious distortion of the Essential Science Indicators
Don't write mass emails (1): distributing your work
Explains ineffective and effective ways to promote your published work
What makes an article highly cited?
Shows topic and author have a stronger influence on citations than journal outlet
How to assess journal impact?
Illustrates how Publish or Perish can be used to assess journal impact
57th edition of the Journal Quality List on-line
New version of the Journal Quality List with the 2016 Erasmus Journal List
Looking for John Smith? About author disambiguation
Details how users of Publish or Perish can disambiguate authors
About Cygna
Information about the Cygna network
Challenges in International survey research: illustrations and solutions
Reviews my work on international mail surveys and response rates across countries
Harzing.com blog 1 year old!
Celebrating my blog's first anniversary with the top-10 most read blogs
The bridging role of expatriates and inpatriates
Illustrates how expatriates and inpatriates differ in terms of their roles in knowledge transfer to and from MNC headquarters
Publish or Perish General Search - a Swiss Army Knife?
Lists five little known things you can do with the PoP General Citation Search
Last impressions count too! The importance of conclusions
Warns against ending your academic article with your study's limitations
Can we use Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents?
Introducing my new article on Google Scholar with the Granada EC3 group
Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science
Argues that Google Scholar needs to be treated as a serious alternative data source for citation analysis
Web of Science: How to be robbed of 10 years of citations in one week!
Shows how academics can be "robbed" of citation through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science
Do Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science speak your language?
Short summary of white paper on the coverage of non-English language publications in three major databases for citation analysis
Want to impress at an academic job interview?
Shows you how to use PoP do some intelligence gathering to make a good impression at a job interview
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
Is ISI misunderstanding the Social Sciences?
Documents how ISI is inappropriately applying Science-based criteria to articles in the Social Sciences
Thank You: The most underused words in academia?
About the importance of courtesy in email communications
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
Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage
Invited prologue for a book on Google Scholar
Free articles on citation analysis
Provides a list of my articles in the area of Bibliometrics that are freely accessible from the publisher
Citation analysis for the Social Sciences: metrics and data-sources
Argues that a fair and inclusive cross-disciplinary comparison of research performance is possible using Google Scholar and the hIa metric
Academic publishing resources
Presents resources related to research impact, journal quality, journal rankings and citation analysis
General search
How to perform general citation or literature searches with Publish or Perish
Journal search
How to perform journal searches with Publish or Perish
Author search
How to perform author searches with Publish or Perish
Quick introduction
Quick introduction to the most common uses of Publish or Perish
Publish or Perish Frequently Asked Questions
Old landing page for PoP FAQs
Using PoP: Queries preferences
Publish or Perish tutorial
Using PoP: General preferences
Publish or Perish tutorial
Using PoP: Program menu
Publish or Perish tutorial
Using PoP: Context menu
Publish or Perish tutorial
Using PoP: The columns
Publish or Perish tutorial
Using PoP
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: CAPTCHAS
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Slow searches
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Citation years
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Missing subject areas
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Book edition cites
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Stray citations
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Inconsistent year
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Wrong author(s)
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Wrong master record
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar: Truncation
Publish or Perish tutorial
Google Scholar
Publish or Perish tutorial
Bibliometric research: Journals
Publish or Perish tutorial
Bibliometric research: Authors
Publish or Perish tutorial
Bibliometric research
Publish or Perish tutorial
Literature review: Longitudinal
Publish or Perish tutorial
Literature review: Key authors
Publish or Perish tutorial
Literature review
Publish or Perish tutorial
Paper submission: Pre-submision check
Publish or Perish tutorial
Paper submission: Compare journal impact
Publish or Perish tutorial
Paper submission
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author evaluation: Tips for Deans
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author evaluation: Job interview
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author evaluation: Publication awards
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author evaluation: Meeting an academic visitor
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author evaluation
Publish or Perish tutorial
Stating your case: Argue for quality
Publish or Perish tutorial
Stating your case: Edited volume
Publish or Perish tutorial
Stating your case: Journal average
Publish or Perish tutorial
Stating your case: Pick metrics wisely
Publish or Perish tutorial
Stating your case: Reference group
Publish or Perish tutorial
Stating your case
Publish or Perish tutorial
Metrics: More h-indices
Publish or Perish tutorial
Metrics: hI,norm and hIa
Publish or Perish tutorial
Metrics: h and g-index
Publish or Perish tutorial
Metrics
Publish or Perish tutorial
Accuracy: Selective merge
Publish or Perish tutorial
Accuracy: Merge duplicates
Publish or Perish tutorial
Accuracy: Check year
Publish or Perish tutorial
Accuracy: PoP vs GS for journals
Publish or Perish tutorial
Accuracy
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Aggregation
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Longitudinal data
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Archives
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Scopus import
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: ISI import
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Re-importing
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Exporting
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: List view
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center: Tree view
Publish or Perish tutorial
Multi-query center
Publish or Perish tutorial
General search: Institutions
Publish or Perish tutorial
General search: Topic in journal
Publish or Perish tutorial
General search: Advanced author
Publish or Perish tutorial
General search: Find academics
Publish or Perish tutorial
General search: Find articles
Publish or Perish tutorial
General search
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search: Edited volumes
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search: Year restrictions
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search: Search by ISSN
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search: Exclude by ISSN(2)
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search: Exclude by ISSN(1)
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search: Exclude homonyms
Publish or Perish tutorial
Journal search
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Use affiliation
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Use research field
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Exclude co-authors
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Use multiple names
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Use year restrictions
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Use full given name
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Exclude homonyms
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Use multiple initials
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Include quotes (" ")
Publish or Perish tutorial
Publish or Perish tutorial
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author search
Publish or Perish tutorial
Author disambiguation: Selective exclusion
Publish or Perish tutorial
Welcome
Home page of Anne-Wil's website
The Publish or Perish Tutorial: 80 easy tips to get the best out of the Publish or Perish software
The Publish or Perish Tutorial in book format
The Publish or Perish Book (PDF edition)
Full information about the PDF version of the Publish or Perish Book
The Publish or Perish Book
All versions of the Publish or Perish Book and reviews
Welcome to my blog!
Introduction to Anne-Wil's blog
Strange journal invitations popping up in my inbox every day
Discusses the phenomenon of predatory open access journals
Replication studies: learning from failure and success
Short commentary illustrating the importance of replication through two examples
The four P's of getting published
Short summary of white paper explaining how performance, practice, participation and persistance are needed to publish academic papers
Using Publish or Perish to do a literature review
Shows you how to do a comprehensive literature review with publish or perish
Accuracy
Background information about the accuracy of the results presented by Publish or Perish
Readings and inspirations
Inspirational reading and other resources for female academics
Membership
Information for and about the Cygna network membership
Cygna
Home page for the CYGNA network
Nancy Adler: Daring to Care
Nancy Adler's inspirational papers on doing research that matters
Submit to only one journal at a time
About good practices in journal submission
Are referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility?
Discusses how myths are created through careless referencing
How to find your next research project?
Provides suggestions on how to find new and interesting research projects
The Dean's disease: the Darker Side of Power
Art Bedeian's hilarious and sobering paper about how power corrupts even Academic Deans
Proof over promise: a more inclusive ranking of academics
Shows how using a different data source and different metrics completely changes the Dutch Economics top-40
How to address your lecturer?
Shows how countries differ in their expected way of address for teachers
Legal notices for Harzing.com
The legal stuff
London HR & OB Group
Network of female academics working in Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour
Previous meetings, presentations and pictures
HROB Network: list of previous meetings with presentations and pictures
Where to submit your paper? Which journals publish on your topic
Shows how to use Publish or Perish to find out which journals publish on your topic
Meeting an official guest or your academic hero?
Shows you how to prepare for any academic meeting in 5-10 minutes
How to make your case for impact
Shows you how to make your case for impact by comparing your papers to the journal average
Transcending the (non)sense of academic rankings
When Knowledge Wins article features in AMLE virtual collection on Principles for Responsible Management Education
How to get listed on the ESI ranking of highly cited authors
Illustrates how tongue-in-cheek papers might be taken seriously by naive (or desparate) academics
Replication study gives thumbs up for the individual annual h-index
Applies the hIa index for a large sample of academics in the United Emirates
Do countries specialise in particular research areas?
Applies theories of revealed comparative advantage and the competitive advantage of nations to academic disciplines
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