196 pages tagged "academia behind the scenes"

Writing effective promotion applications
12 Jul 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
How to ensure your promotion application has the best possible chance of success

Working in academia
08 Apr 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Container page of resources related to working in academia

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.

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

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

Research impact 101
29 Aug 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short introduction to my new white paper providing an overview of six key issues in the assessment of research impact

Research Impact 101
18 Jun 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides an overview of six key issues in the assessment of research impact.

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.

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

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

Book series: Crafting your career in academia
12 Jul 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
A new book series including thematic books on various aspects of academic careers, based on my blog on the topic

Creating social media profiles
09 Sep 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
How to build effective social media profiles that publicise your research

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.

Publishing in academic journals
09 Sep 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
How to ensure your paper has the best possible chance of publication

Sabbatical at Middlesex University London: a story of swans and unicorns
05 Dec 2020 - Heejin Kim
Heejin's wonderful reflections on her one-year stay in the UK

Gender and geographical diversity in the JIBS editorial board: an update
06 Jun 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Announces an update of white paper on editorial board diversity

On academic life: collaborations and active engagement
19 Jun 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Martyna Sliwa's articles on the rationalities underlying research collaborations and getting involved in managing and shaping the university organizations we work for

Middlesex 2022 ECR event: back to Cumberland Lodge
05 Sep 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the July 2022 ECR event organised for Middlesex University. Links to the slides and other resources are included.

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

Harzing.com blog posts by theme
19 Sep 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Thematic overview of blog posts and resources

Harzing.com blog 6 years old!
14 Mar 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's sixth anniversary with a recap of the most read blogs

Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?
02 Aug 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
White paper that proposes replacing the REF with a metrics-based exercise

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.

How to publish an unusual paper? Referencing errors, scholarship & credibility
17 Oct 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Tells the story of a paper that was desk-rejected by more than a dozen journals

What's the story behind your first paper?
15 Sep 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains the background to my first ever academic publication, which was chosen as the top paper for research in global careers

Publishing with a student: Expatriate Failure revisited
21 Nov 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Write with anyone who has great ideas and is motivated by academic exchange, whether they are students, juniors, peers, or seniors

Improve your Research Profile (2): What is impact and why should you care?
24 Oct 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The second in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Discusses the various forms of impact and explains why citation impact is important.

Improve your Research Profile (1): Why is it so important?
26 Sep 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The first in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Explains the rationale behind this series.

Improve your Research Profile (3): Getting savvy about data sources & metrics
28 Nov 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The third in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Gives you a "crash course" on data sources and metrics for citation impact.

Measuring and improving research impact
09 Sep 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
How to measure, evidence, and improve your research impact and create impactful research processes

CYGNA: How to manage individual research performance
12 Dec 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 49th meeting with a discussion of research-based evidence on how to manage research performance

CYGNA: Resistance to gender equality in academia
15 Mar 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 38th CYGNA meeting dealing with one of the ultimate gender topics

How to create a sustainable academic career
21 Nov 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on Martyna Sliwa's presentation on career progression in the UK higher education environment

CYGNA: Co-creating academic well-being
17 Dec 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 43th CYGNA meeting on the challenges and champions of academic well-being

CYGNA: climbing up the academic career ladder
03 May 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 39th CYGNA meeting with a focus on career progression

CYGNA: Gender & Migration
31 Oct 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 48th meeting with two book launches and a discusion on advancing migration research in Business & Management

CYGNA: Female leadership in Higher Education
29 Oct 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 33rd CYGNA meeting - our first in a full academic year of online meetings

Presenting your case for tenure or promotion?
23 Nov 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how to make your case for tenure or promotion by comparing your record to a relevant peer group

On the loneliness of teaching
14 Nov 2022 - Siân Stephens
A reflection on the loneliness of University teaching, and a call to share our pedagogical successes and challenges with pride

Top-50 academics in Business & Management worldwide: new 2022 ranking
02 Nov 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Discusses the new October 2022 individual ranking based on Scopus citations, listing the top 2% most cited academics in each field

Supportive, inclusive & collaborative research cultures
07 Nov 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Presentation in a course for Research Deans organised by the Chartered Association of Business Schools and the British Academy of Management

The four C's of getting cited
22 Aug 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains how competence, collaboration, care and communication help to ensure your work is getting the citation impact it deserves

The four P's of getting published
08 Dec 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short summary of white paper explaining how performance, practice, participation and persistance are needed to publish academic papers

Improve your Research Profile
14 Jun 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates links to all eight blogposts in the series: Improve your Research Profile, Reputation, and Impact

Effective promotion applications
01 Nov 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates links to all ten blogposts in the academic promotion series

Avoid a desk-reject for your article
01 Nov 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates links to all eight blogposts in the how to avoid a desk-reject series

Academic promotion tips (4) - Evidence your impact in Teaching & Learning
21 Feb 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Fourth of a six-part blogpost series on how to write an effective application for promotion in academia

Bibliographic Analysis of the Scholarly Writings of Stephen Kobrin
21 Oct 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides an historical overview of Stephen Kobrin's research interests and publications, created by using the Publish or Perish software

Supporting Early Career Researchers
10 Oct 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Presentation in the EFMD course for Faculty Deans on "Rethinking faculty models for impactful schools and resilient careers"

Top-50 most highly-cited academics in Business & Management worldwide
17 Dec 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Discusses a new individual ranking based on Scopus citations as well as some concrete suggestions for changing performance appraisal

Want to impress at an academic job interview?
24 Jan 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows you how to use PoP do some intelligence gathering to make a good impression at a job interview

Middlesex University Summer 2018 writing boot-camp
26 Jul 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the Summer 2018 writing boot-camp I organised at Cumberland Lodge near Windsor and links to the slides used

Open Syllabus Explorer: evidencing research-based teaching?
15 Nov 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reviews how the Open Syllabus Project can help academics to understand their impact on teaching and find the best textbook for their course

Social media in Academia (7): Blogging
13 Apr 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides recommendations on how to start with blogging

Your introduction: first impressions count! [5/8]
11 Sep 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
What are the elements of an effective introduction: context, importance and interest

The changing usage of Publish or Perish over the years: where, why, when, what & who?
26 Jan 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating 15 years of Publish or Perish with an analysis of its usage over the years

CYGNA: Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when?
19 Sep 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 41st CYGNA meeting on the challenge of publishing literature review papers

CYGNA @EIBA Madrid 2021
14 Feb 2022 - Ciara O’Higgins
Report and pictures by members of the CYGNA network at the EIBA conference

From little seed to fully-grown tree: a paper development journey
09 May 2022 - Heejin Kim
A novice writer providing a "behind the scenes" look at co-authoring for top journals

CYGNA: Secret Santa at the 2nd pandemic Christmas
17 Jan 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 44th CYGNA meeting with a Secret Santa Christmas celebration

CYGNA: Positionality, team roles, and academic activism
27 Jun 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
47th CYGNA meeting, celebrating our 8-year anniversary with our first face-to-face meeting in 2.5 years

Academic promotion tips (5) - Evidence your impact in Leadership & Service
07 Mar 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Fifth of a six-part blogpost series on how to write an effective application for promotion in academia

Middlesex University 2021 virtual writing boot-camp
11 Sep 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the Summer 2021 virtual writing boot-camp and links to the slides and videos used

Academic promotion tips (1) - Understand the process
10 Jan 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
First of a six-part blogpost series on how to write an effective application for promotion in academia

Academic promotion tips (2) - Treat your application as a journal submission
24 Jan 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Second of a six-part blogpost series on how to write an effective application for promotion in academia

Academic promotion tips (3) - Evidence your impact in Research & Engagement
07 Feb 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Third of a six-part blogpost series on how to write an effective application for promotion in academia

Academic promotion tips (6) - Craft your career narrative
21 Mar 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Last of a six-part blogpost series on how to write an effective application for promotion in academia

Impact is impact is impact? Well, no...
20 Jun 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Invited blogpost on SAGE Social Science Space: disambiguating the concept of impact

How to improve your research impact: YouTube series
06 Nov 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates eighteen mini-videos on how to improve your research impact, based on a presentation at Middlesex University

How to measure research impact: YouTube series
09 Oct 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates twelve mini-videos on measuring research impact based on an interview with Vas Taras

Social Media in Academia (1): Introduction
16 Jan 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
An introduction into my 8-part blogpost series on social media

Top-50 academics in Business & Management worldwide: new 2021 ranking
26 Nov 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Discusses a new individual ranking based on Scopus citations as well as some concrete suggestions for changing performance appraisal

IB Frontline interview: personal section
19 Nov 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introduces the first section of my IB Frontline interview talking about my career journey, regrets and passions

IB Frontline interview: research section
10 Dec 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introduces the second section of my IB Frontline interview talking about my research, creativity and the future of IB research

IB Frontline interview: mentoring section
03 Jan 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introduces the third section of my IB Frontline interview talking about my role as a mentor and my top tips for early career researchers

Frontline IB interviews
19 Sep 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
List of all Frontline IB Conversations with female academics on one page

Social media to support your career
01 Nov 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates links to all eight blogposts in the social media in academia series

CYGNA: Supervising and being supervised
02 May 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Our 46th CYGNA meeting discussing our experiences of PhD supervision, both from a student and from a supervisor perspective

Middlesex University Summer 2019 writing boot-camp
14 Sep 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the Summer 2019 writing boot-camp I organised at Cumberland Lodge near Windsor and links to the slides used

Social media - caring in a shared world (4): Social media capital
04 Jul 2022 - Christa Sathish
How and why can academics build and maintain their social media capital

How to ensure your paper achieves the impact it deserves?
15 Jan 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Discusses the workflow I use to communicate about a new paper

Why are there so few female Economics professors?
11 Nov 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short summary of my article in Economisch Statistische Berichten on gender bias and meritocracy in academia

Tips for promotion applications [4/4]
22 Sep 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Part 4 of a 4-part post which explains why internal promotion in academia might be harder to achieve than external promotion and gives tips for successful applications

Seven reasons why external promotion is easier [2/4]
08 Sep 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Part 2 of a 4-part post which explains why internal promotion in academia might be harder to achieve than external promotion and gives tips for successful applications

CYGNA: Negotiation workshop
15 Feb 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 30th CYGNA meeting dealing with negotiation styles

Who do you want to talk to? Targeting journals [2/8]
24 May 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains why choosing your target journal is the most important step in the publication process

CYGNA: How do I keep my job (in academia) in uncertain times?
13 Nov 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 34th CYGNA meeting discussing jobs losses in higher education in COVID-19 times

Internal versus external promotion [1/4]
01 Sep 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Part 1 of a 4-part post which explains why internal promotion in academia might be harder to achieve than external promotion and gives tips for successful applications

What do you cite? Using references strategically [7/8]
03 Oct 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows you how references can save you hundreds of words and position your paper

Bibliographic Analysis of the Scholarly Writings of Jean J. Boddewyn
18 Jun 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides an historical overview of Jean Boddewyn's research interests and publications, created by using the Publish or Perish software

Social Media in Academia (6): Twitter
27 Mar 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides recommendations on how to get the best out of Twitter

Social Media in Academia (2): Comparing the options
28 Jan 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
General recommendations on how to use social media professionally

The four C's of getting cited
18 Sep 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short summary of white paper explaining why competence, collaboration, care and communication help to realise the citation impact of your work

Making your case for impact if you have few citations
27 Nov 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides advice on strategies to demonstrate impact with a very low citation level

How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia
12 May 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides twelve suggestions on how to prevent burn-out and keep your sanity

Welcome to my blog!
18 Mar 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introduction to Anne-Wil's blog

Why does my paper get a desk-reject time and again?
18 Mar 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
About the importance of joining the journal’s “conversation”

Strange journal invitations popping up in my inbox every day
07 Apr 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Discusses the phenomenon of predatory open access journals

EURAM Meet the editors panel
04 Jun 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on a meet the editors panel at the 2016 EURAM conference

Do Google Scholar, Scopus and the Web of Science speak your language?
12 Jun 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short summary of white paper on the coverage of non-English language publications in three major databases for citation analysis

How to find your next research project?
16 Jun 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides suggestions on how to find new and interesting research projects

Replication studies: learning from failure and success
09 Jul 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short commentary illustrating the importance of replication through two examples

How to get listed on the ESI ranking of highly cited authors
08 Sep 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
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
15 Sep 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Applies the hIa index for a large sample of academics in the United Emirates

Harzing.com blog 3 years old!
15 Mar 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's third anniversary with the top-15 most read blogs

Harzing.com blog 5 years old!
22 Mar 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's fifth anniversary with a recap of the most read blogs

Publish or Perish increases transparency in academic appointments
14 Oct 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Illustrates how PoP has been used to expose nepotism and incompetence

How to write successful funding applications?
02 Nov 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides ten tips for successful funding applications

Microsoft Academic: Is the Phoenix getting wings?
09 Nov 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Compares citation coverage in the new Microsoft Academic with Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science

Harzing.com blog 2 years old!
12 Mar 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's second anniversary with the top-15 most read blogs

Microsoft Academic is one year old: the Phoenix is ready to leave the nest
26 Jun 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The third of my trilogy of papers on Microsoft Academic reporting on its coverage one year after its re-launch

Publish or Perish General Search - a Swiss Army Knife?
17 Jan 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Lists five little known things you can do with the PoP General Citation Search

Web of Science: How to be robbed of 10 years of citations in one week!
15 Feb 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how I was "robbed" of citations through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science

Publish or Perish: Realising Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis
20 Feb 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on a presentation at the Google Scholar Day: Changing current evaluation paradigms

Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science
28 Feb 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Argues that Google Scholar needs to be treated as a serious alternative data source for citation analysis

Harzing.com blog 4 years old!
22 Mar 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's fourth anniversary with the top-15 most read blogs

Harzing.com blog 1 year old!
20 Mar 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Celebrating my blog's first anniversary with the top-10 most read blogs

How to conduct searches with Microsoft Academic
18 Apr 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains how to use Microsoft Academic as a new data source in Publish or Perish

CYGNA: Building your academic brand through social media
24 May 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 16th CYGNA meeting with two presentations on social media in academia

Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?
14 Aug 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short summary of white paper that proposes replacing the REF with a metrics-based exercise

Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say
01 Sep 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Gives my reflections on my Summer reading "Return to Meaning" and pleads for individual initiative in creating Positive Academia

Bank error in your favour? How to gain 3,000 citations in a week
21 Sep 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how I gained 3,000 citations in a week through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science

Citation analysis: Tips for Deans and other administrators
25 Sep 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides recommendations for Deans and senior administrators for fair and equitable research evaluation

What is that conference networking thing all about?
01 Nov 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reflections on the importance of networking in academia and tips on how to do it

The mystery of the phantom reference: a detective story
08 Nov 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Short summary of white paper that shows how sloppy writing and sloppy quality control lead to a non-existing article being cited nearly 400 times

CYGNA: Publishing in Management, Psychology and International Business
09 May 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on various CYGNA meetings with the general theme of publishing

Useful resources when preparing for journal submission
13 Feb 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Presents some key resources to improve your chances of successful publication

Middlesex University Winter 2018 writing boot-camp
24 Jan 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the Winter 2018 writing boot-camp I organised at Cumberland Lodge near Windsor and links to the slides used

CYGNA: Secondary data sources and research portfolios
07 Feb 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 19th CYGNA meeting with presentations about working with secondary data sources and balancing your research portfolio

CYGNA: Working effectively with support staff in academia
06 Mar 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 18th CYGNA meeting with a presentation on working with support staff and a discussion of boundaryless careers

Publishing in Management Education Journals
28 Mar 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Report on a seminar by Jon Billsberry at Middlesex University on the 5th of March 2018

CYGNA: Be nice AND get the corner office
02 Apr 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 21st CYGNA meeting with an emphasis on negotiating your employment conditions

WAIB Panel: Academic career strategies for women in the UK
01 May 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on a WAIB Panel at the AIB-UKI meeting in Birmingham April 2018

How to keep up-to-date with the literature, but avoid information overload?
14 May 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides tips on how to keep up-to-date without getting lost in social media overload

Building your academic brand through engagement with social media
18 May 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on my presentation at the Free University of Amsterdam

CYGNA: Women academics in Australia and France
21 May 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on various CYGNA meetings with the theme of working in foreign countries

How to write for US journals with non-US data
28 May 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Summarizes an editorial by Carol Kulik that explains how to position your research for an international reader

CYGNA: Careers, mobility and belonging: foreign women academics in the UK
02 Jun 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 15th CYGNA meeting with a special emphasis on the challenges for female foreign academics in the UK

CYGNA: Resource collection for the summer holidays
25 Jun 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Collates resources for all CYGNA meetings beween mid 2014 and mid 2018

Seven advantages of internal promotion [3/4]
15 Sep 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Part 3 of a 4-part post which explains why internal promotion in academia might be harder to achieve than external promotion and gives tips for successful applications

How to ensure your research achieves the impact it deserves
17 Nov 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on my presentation at Tilburg University

Own your place in the world by writing a book
11 Dec 2018 - Nico Pizzolato
A passionate plea to consider publishing a book at least once in your academic career

Fostering research impact through social media
03 Jan 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Full recording of a 1.5-hour presentation on the four C's of getting cited and an 8-step workflow on how to effectively disseminate your research.

CYGNA: Life-long learning in academia
03 Apr 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 25th CYGNA meeting with presentations on an Erasmus visit and participation in the Aurora program

How to hold on to your sanity in academia
11 Apr 2019 - Steffi Siegert
Steffi Siegert's powerful contribution that sums up everything that women can be facing in academia

Mobility and gender matter in speed of promotion and development of career capital
17 May 2019 - Olga Ryazanova
Guest post by Olga Ryazanova about her AMLE article on mobility, gender and promotion

Strategies for Publishing Pedagogical Research
29 Sep 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on a seminar by David Boud at Middlesex University on the 2nd of July 2019

CYGNA's 5 year anniversary: MDX writing boot-camp
11 Oct 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the Middlesex writing bootcamp for CYGNA members - a full day even to celebrate our 5th anniversary

AIB RM-SIG: Research methods in International Business
21 Oct 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Listing of all recent articles published in Journal of International Business Studies dealing with methodological issues

The phantom reference strikes again
28 Nov 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Update of a 2017 white paper that shows that - with over 500 citations - the phantom reference is alive and kicking

CYGNA: Work intensification, well-being and career advancement
08 Dec 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 29th CYGNA meeting dealing with workloads and work intensification

Social Media in Academia (3): Google Scholar Profiles
10 Feb 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides recommendations on how to get the best out of Google Scholar Profiles

Social Media in Academia (4): LinkedIn
27 Feb 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides recommendations on how to get the best out of LinkedIn

Social media in Academia (5): ResearchGate
09 Mar 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Provides recommendations on how to get the most out of ResearchGate

The four ailments of academic writing and how to cure them
20 Apr 2020 - Nico Pizzolato
Some golden tips on how to improve your academic writing

How to avoid a desk-reject in seven steps [1/8]
10 May 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introduces a 7-step process to increase your chances of getting your paper into the review process

1st CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: Coping with a Pandemic
06 Jun 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 31st CYGNA meeting - our first virtual meeting dealing with work-life balance during a pandemic

Your title: the public face of your paper [3/8]
14 Jun 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Illustrates how to create a good title through an iterative process

Writing your abstract: not a last-minute activity [4/8]
28 Jun 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains what needs to be included in an effective abstract

2nd CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: MBTI & Stress
16 Jul 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 32nd CYGNA meeting - our second virtual meeting discussing stress trigger factors for different MBTI types

Middlesex University 2020 virtual writing boot-camp
04 Sep 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on the Summer 2020 virtual writing boot-camp and links to the slides used

Conclusions: last impressions count too! [6/8]
18 Sep 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Last but not least: conclusions are a crucial part of your paper's key message

CYGNA: The wonderful world of book publishing
12 Dec 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 35th CYGNA meeting with three publishers discussing textbooks, research books and practice books

CYGNA: Working in a Horizon-2020 project
19 Feb 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 37th CYGNA meeting dealing with research funding and working in large funded projects

CYGNA: REF and Christmas during a pandemic
05 Jan 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 36th CYGNA meeting with a presentation on REF and A Christmas celebration

Resources on doing a literature review
29 Mar 2021 - Tatiana Andreeva
Reviews a list of resources that provide advice on doing a literature review

Social Media in Academia: Using LinkedIn to promote your research
08 Apr 2021 - Christa Sathish
Tips and tricks for using LinkedIn to promote your research

Want to publish a literature review? Think of it as an empirical paper
23 Apr 2021 - Tatiana Andreeva
What to consider if you want to publish a literature review paper

Chairing a CYGNA meeting
10 May 2021 - Huong Nguyen
Huong Nguyen reflects on her enjoyable experience of chairing the 39th CYGNA meeting on ‘Climbing up the academic career ladder'

Social media in academia: Using LinkedIn in a mixed-method research design
17 May 2021 - Christa Sathish
Tips and tricks for research data collection through LinkedIn: survey and focus groups

CYGNA: Women management scholars leading REF impact case studies
13 Jun 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 40th CYGNA meeting with a focus on the (limited) role of women academics in REF impact case studies

Do you really want to publish your literature review? Advice for PhD students
20 Jun 2021 - Tatiana Andreeva
Why publishing your literature review as your first paper may not be a good idea

Hello from the other side: Reflections on a decade at the editor’s desk
26 Jun 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on David Collings' look behind the scenes of an editor's job in the Middlesex MLO seminar series

How to digitally market yourself: a beginner's guide for students and academics
06 Nov 2021 - Christa Sathish
Handy tips and tricks to start building a digital presence

Literature review: Longitudinal
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

Literature review: Key authors
06 Feb 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Publish or Perish tutorial

The mystery of the phantom reference
26 Oct 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Shows how sloppy writing and sloppy quality control lead to a non-existing article being cited nearly 400 times

CYGNA: Internationalisation of Japanese academia
28 Jun 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 27th CYGNA meeting with presentations on internationalisation of academia and a social media clinic

Social media - caring in a shared world (3): Online identity reconstruction
16 May 2022 - Christa Sathish
How and why to reconstruct your online identity when using social networking sites professionally

From h-index to hIa: The ins and outs of research metrics
20 Jul 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains two key research metrics and compares three sources of citation data: the Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar.

Finding a Unicorn? Research funding in Business & Management research
05 May 2019 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains why university administrators need to be realistic in the amount of research funding they can expect Business School academics to generate

And then there were none: employee relations in marketising universities
05 Jul 2019 - Olga Kuznetsova
Introduces CYGNA member Olga Kuznetsova's article on employee relations in hybrid organisations using a Univeristy and College Union archive

Why do I need to write a letter to the editor? [8/8]
16 Oct 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
The last step in the submission process is an important means to "sell" your paper to the journal

The four P's of publishing
03 Dec 2016 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains how performance, practice, participation and persistance are needed to publish academic papers

CYGNA: The WHYs and HOWs of coaching
30 Oct 2021 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 42nd CYGNA meeting on how you can incorporate coaching in an academic career as coacher and coachee

How many references is enough?
30 May 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Some reflections on why more references isn't always better, but how strategic referencing might help

Language effects in international mail surveys
10 Jun 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Explains how questionnaire language might influence the responses received in cross-cultural research

CYGNA: Social network analysis and managing large research teams
16 Apr 2018 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 17th CYGNA meeting with presentations about social network analysis and managing large research teams

Research fraud: salutary reading for the Summer holidays
29 Jun 2017 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Introduces Diederik Stapel's novel Derailment, a salutary tale of a researcher's downfall

CYGNA: One size doesn't fit all - Diversity of academic career paths
28 Feb 2022 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Reports on our 45th CYGNA meeting in which we discussed four alternative career paths in academia

Friends and co-authors
11 Apr 2022 - Siân Stephens
On the joys of working with friends as co-authors

Social media - caring in a shared-world (1): Self & others
31 Jan 2022 - Christa Sathish
How to develop care for others and as well as self-care when using social networking sites professionally

Social Media in Academia (8): Putting it all together
27 Apr 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Final posting in the social media series explains how different social media can reinforce each other

Social media - caring in a shared-world (2): Authentic Identity
28 Mar 2022 - Christa Sathish
How to develop an authentic identity when using social networking sites professionally

Be proactive, resilient & realistic!
07 Jan 2020 - Anne-Wil Harzing
Argues that as an academic you are an independent professional shaping your own career