Celebrating 20 years of the Publish or Perish citation analysis software with an analysis of its changing usage over the years: where, why, when, what, who, and how?

30 May 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General search: Institutions

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General search: Topic in journal

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General search: Advanced author

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General search: Find academics

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General search: Find articles

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General search

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Using the Publish or Perish software

How to use the Publish or Perish software effectively for a wide variety of purposes

12 Aug 2023 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case: Argue for quality

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case: Journal average

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case: Edited volume

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case: Pick metrics wisely

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case: Reference group

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish command line tools

Overview of the command line version of Publish or Perish

30 Apr 2020 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

User-Agent string syntax

Describes the formatting option for User-Agent strings used by Publish or Perish

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

No help available

Placeholder page for missing help content

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Messages

Overview of the messages produced by the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Semantic Scholar API key

31 Oct 2021 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Semantic Scholar

31 Oct 2021 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: PubMed

31 Oct 2021 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Operation in Progress

Information about the progress dialog box shown while an operation is in progress

14 Nov 2018 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Web of Science

Preference settings for the Web of Science data source

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Scopus

Preference settings for the Scopus data source

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Crossref

Preference settings for the Crossref data source

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Web of Science sign in

Information about signing in to a Web of Science session

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Scopus API key

Information about obtaining and entering a Scopus API key

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Select Google Scholar Profile

Information about the selection of matching Google Scholar Profiles

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Query in progress

Information about the progress dialog box shown while a query is in progress

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Publish or Perish survey

Explains why we conduct an online survey about Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Publish or Perish donation

Explains the reasons for Publish or Perish donations

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Results

Preference settings for the presentation of query results

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Microsoft Academic

Preference settings for the Microsoft Academic data source

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Google Scholar

Preference settings for the Google Scholar data source

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: Google Scholar Profile

Preference settings for the Google Scholar Profile data source

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Preferences: General

General preference settings for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

No search selected

Placeholder dialog box when no search is selected

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Microsoft Academic subscription key

Information about obtaining and entering a Microsoft Academic subscription key

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Data provider information

Information about the selected data provider

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Dialog boxes

Overview of the Publish or Perish dialog boxes

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Commands

Overview of the available Publish or Perish commands

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Reference guide

Reference information for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Exporting references and opening articles/citations

Description of reference details exported from different data sources

19 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Affiliation search

How to perform author searches with Publish or Perish

19 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

General/keyword search

How to perform general citation or literature searches with Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publication/Journal search

How to perform journal searches with Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author search

How to perform author searches with Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Use cases

Discussion of common use cases for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Paper details

31 Oct 2021 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Search Report (basic or extended)

Information about creating a full search report

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Archiving your data

How to archive your Publish or Perish data

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Exporting your data

Information about the data export formats supported by Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Accuracy

Background information about the accuracy of the results presented by Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Citation metrics

Information about the citation metrics calculated by Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Results list

How to use the query results list in Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Searches list

How to use the searches list

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Folder tree

How to use the searches folder tree

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Search results

Overview of the results returned by the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Lens.org

Information about the Lens.org data source

28 Jul 2024 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

OpenAlex

Information about OpenAlex searches

02 Feb 2022 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Semantic Scholar

31 Oct 2021 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

PubMed

Information about PubMed searches

03 Aug 2020 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Web of Science

Information about Web of Science searches

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Scopus

Information about Scopus queries

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Crossref

Information about Crossref queries

05 Oct 2017 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Imported data formats

Information about the external data formats that Publish or Perish can import

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Imported external data

Information about importing external data

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Microsoft Academic

Information about Microsoft Academic queries

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Google Scholar citing references

Information about Google Scholar citing reference queries

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Google Scholar Profile

Information about Google Scholar Profile queries

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Google Scholar

Information about Google Scholar queries

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Data sources

Overview of the data sources used by the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Quick introduction

Quick introduction to the most common uses of Publish or Perish

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Using Publish or Perish

How to use the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Credits

Credits and copyright information for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

License agreement

End user license agreement for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

System requirements

System requirements for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

What's new in Publish or Perish

Overview of changes and releases notes for the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

About Publish or Perish

Introduction to the Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Publish or Perish User's Manual

User manual for Publish or Perish software

20 Dec 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - David Adams

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author search

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search: Exclude homonyms

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search: Exclude by ISSN(1)

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search: Exclude by ISSN(2)

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search: Search by ISSN

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search: Year restrictions

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Journal search: Edited volumes

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Tree view

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: List view

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Exporting

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Re-importing

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: ISI import

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Scopus import

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Archives

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Longitudinal data

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Multi-query center: Aggregation

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: PoP vs GS for journals

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: Check year

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: Merge duplicates

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: Selective merge

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Metrics

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Metrics: h and g-index

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Metrics: hI,norm and hIa

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Metrics: More h-indices

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author evaluation

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author evaluation: Meeting an academic visitor

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author evaluation: Laudatio or obituary

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author evaluation: Publication awards

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author evaluation: Job interview

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Author evaluation: Tips for Deans

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Paper submission

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Paper submission: Compare journal impact

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Paper submission: Pre-submision check

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: CAPTCHAS

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Slow searches

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Citation years

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Missing subject areas

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Book edition cites

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Stray citations

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Inconsistent year

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Wrong author(s)

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Wrong master record

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar: Truncation

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Bibliometric research: Journals

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Bibliometric research: Authors

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Bibliometric research

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Literature review: Longitudinal

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Literature review: Key authors

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Literature review

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish in the news

Summarizes new coverage and user feedback for PoP, lists training resources and papers written using PoP

06 Feb 2016 (updated 22 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?

White paper that proposes replacing the REF with a metrics-based exercise

02 Aug 2017 (updated 21 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The Publish or Perish Tutorial: 80 tips to get the best out of the PoP software

The Publish or Perish Tutorial in book format

27 Aug 2016 (updated 21 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The story of Publish or Perish

Short introduction to my white paper celebrating the 20th anniversary of Publish or Perish: Two decades, dozens of use cases, hundreds of releases, thousands of citations, and millions of users.

07 Oct 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The individual annualised h-index: an ecologically rational heuristic?

Studies a matched sample of University of Melbourne (Associate) Professors to test the hIa as an ecologically rational metric that is unbiased across disciplines, career stage, and gender, as well as predictive for promotion, mobility and awards.

01 Jan 2024 (updated 28 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Finding the pearls in your citation record

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to present your academic citation record to its best advantage: find the pearls in your record, polish them and string them into a beautiful necklace that presents your citation story effectively

17 Jun 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Finding that elusive academic through a journal/keywords search

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find a specific academic if you only recall where they are working and a journal they have published in

27 May 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Making your case for tenure & promotion?

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to make the case for academic impact in your application for tenure or promotion

29 Apr 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Using Publish or Perish to prepare for a job interview

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to to be well-prepared by finding out what academics in the university you applied for are working on

18 Mar 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog celebrates its 10-year anniversary

Celebrating my blog's tenth anniversary with a recap of the most important and most read posts, as well as the most frequent referrers to my website more generally

11 Mar 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Finding reviewers, examiners, speakers, or referees: PoP comes to the rescue

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find good candidates for academic service roles

18 Feb 2026 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Finding that elusive article through a title search

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find a specific article if you only recall a few title words

28 Jan 2026 (updated 12 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

22 Oct 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Help!!! Meeting an important visitor? Only have 10 minutes?

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to prepare for a meeting with an important academic visitor in no time at all

11 Jun 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Using Publish or Perish as Research Dean or Research Manager

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find out what a particular author has published while affiliated with a particular university

21 May 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

What has a university published in a (set of) journal(s)

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find out what a particular university has pubished in a specific set of journals

23 Apr 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Bibliometric research on specific research topics - an example for Green Finance

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to do analyses by keyword or title word

19 Mar 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 9 years old!

Celebrating my blog's ninth anniversary with a recap of the most read posts

12 Mar 2025 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Co-authorship patterns across disciplines over time

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to study co-authorship patterns across various disciplines and make your case for disciplinary impact

19 Feb 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Co-authorship patterns across countries and time

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to study co-authorship patterns across countries

29 Jan 2025 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How much is [author x] cited in [journal y]?

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find out how much a particular author is cited in a particular journal

20 Nov 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to figure out "citation connections"?

Show you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find out whether two academics have ever cited each other

09 Oct 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Did a job applicant publish with(out) their supervisor?

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find out what a job applicant published with their supervisor and what they published independently

24 Jun 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The individual annualised h-index: a 10-year study

Short summary of my white paper: The individual annualised h-index: an ecologically rational heuristic?

27 May 2024 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why did you create the JQL and the PoP software?

Third of nine posts based on my webinar for Georgia State University's CIBER - Interview by Tamer Cavusgil

06 May 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Have two academics ever published together?

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to find out whether two academics have published together

22 Apr 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 8 years old!

Celebrating my blog's eight anniversary with a recap of the most read posts

11 Mar 2024 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Longitudinal analysis of an author's citation metrics

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to track your citation metrics over time

26 Feb 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Who creates Google Scholar Profiles?

Reports on a small curiosity project conducted with the Publish or Perish software

22 Jan 2024 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

What about the Christmas turkey?

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software for curiosity searches

22 Dec 2023 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The history of Science

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software for historical research on a specific journal

27 Nov 2023 (updated 10 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Historical development of a discipline

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software for historical research on the discipline of Management

16 Oct 2023 (updated 10 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Just out: New guide to the Publish or Perish software!

My brandnew 375-page guide to the PoP software appears as the fifth book in my "Crafting your career in academia" series

21 Aug 2023 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 7 years old!

Celebrating my blog's seventh anniversary with a recap of the most read posts

08 Mar 2023 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (5): The 4Cs of getting cited

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.

09 Jan 2023 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (4): Citation analysis in the PoP software

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.

19 Dec 2022 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (3): Getting savvy about data sources & metrics

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.

28 Nov 2022 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (15): Training resources

Week 15 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

18 Apr 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (14): Transparency & replicability

Week 14 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

07 Apr 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (13): Command line tools

Week 13 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

31 Mar 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (12): Facilitate repeated searching

Week 12 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

24 Mar 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (11): Google Scholar - include/exclude stray citations and patents

Week 11 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

17 Mar 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 6 years old!

Celebrating my blog's sixth anniversary with a recap of the most read blogs

14 Mar 2022 (updated 15 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (10): Google Scholar - limitation of the number of search results

Week 10 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

10 Mar 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (9): Google Scholar - retrieval of citing works

Week 9 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

03 Mar 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (8): Google Scholar - DOI extraction

Week 8 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

24 Feb 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (7): Google Scholar - related works

Week 7 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

17 Feb 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (6): Improved search reports - basic or extended

Week 6 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

10 Feb 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (5): Download and export of abstracts

Week 5 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

03 Feb 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (4): Search for free full text version

Week 4 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

27 Jan 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (3): New metric hA index

Week 3 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

20 Jan 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (2): New data-source PubMed

Week 2 of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

13 Jan 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

PoP 8 new features (1): New interface

Start of a weekly announcement of new features of Publish or Perish version 8

06 Jan 2022 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish version 8

Introducing Publish or Perish release 8

31 Oct 2021 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - David Adams

How to keep your Google Scholar Profile clean?

Explains how to keep your Google Scholar profile up-to-date and prevent it from getting polluted

25 Sep 2021 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 5 years old!

Celebrating my blog's fifth anniversary with a recap of the most read blogs

22 Mar 2021 (updated 15 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Using Publish or Perish for meta-analyses

Explains how to use Publish or Perish to conduct effective meta-analytic research

02 Feb 2021 (updated 09 Aug 2026) - Vas Taras

Changing usage of Publish or Perish over the years: where, why, when, what & who?

Celebrating 15 years of Publish or Perish with an analysis of its usage over the years

26 Jan 2021 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to improve your research impact: YouTube series

Collates eighteen mini-videos on how to improve your research impact, based on a presentation at Middlesex University

06 Nov 2020 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to measure research impact: YouTube series

Collates twelve mini-videos on measuring research impact based on an interview with Vas Taras

09 Oct 2020 (updated 24 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Looking for multilingual PoP support resources?

Provides a list of videos on using Publish or Perish in a variety of languages

25 Sep 2020 (updated 06 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 4 years old!

Celebrating my blog's fourth anniversary with the top-15 most read blogs

22 Mar 2020 (updated 05 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

New: Publish or Perish now also exports abstracts

Introduces a new Publish or Perish feature: exporting of publication abstracts

12 Jan 2020 (updated 05 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to use Publish or Perish effectively?

Presents the slides of a Bibliometrics Summer School session in July 2019

25 Sep 2019 (updated 05 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish version 7

Introducing Publish or Perish release 7

02 Sep 2019 (updated 05 Aug 2026) - David Adams

Writing laudations or obituaries?

Illustrates how to ensure you get comprehensive coverage of an academic's work when writing laudations or obituaries

08 Jun 2019 (updated 05 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 3 years old!

Celebrating my blog's third anniversary with the top-15 most read blogs

15 Mar 2019 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar Profiles: the good, the bad, and the better

Provides a detailed discussion of how to use Google Scholar Profiles most effectively

24 Nov 2018 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to merge “stray citation" records?

Explains how to merge different occurrences of a paper in Publish or Perish

10 Apr 2018 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Where to submit your paper? Compare journals by impact

Shows how to use Publish or Perish to compare journals by impact

20 Mar 2018 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 2 years old!

Celebrating my blog's second anniversary with the top-15 most read blogs

12 Mar 2018 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish version 6

Introduces Publish or Perish release 6 and its new data sources

15 Nov 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Is Google Scholar flawless? Of course not!

Reviews the major limitations of Google Scholar

01 Oct 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Citation analysis: Tips for Deans and other administrators

Provides recommendations for Deans and senior administrators for fair and equitable research evaluation

25 Sep 2017 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to import ISI and Scopus data in Publish or Perish?

Illustrates how Web of Science and Scopus data can be imported into Publish or Perish

11 Sep 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?

Short summary of white paper that proposes replacing the REF with a metrics-based exercise

14 Aug 2017 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to conduct a longitudinal literature review?

Shows you how to do a longitudinal literature review with Publish or Perish

11 May 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to conduct searches with Microsoft Academic

Explains how to use Microsoft Academic as a new data source in Publish or Perish

18 Apr 2017 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Harzing.com blog 1 year old!

Celebrating my blog's first anniversary with the top-10 most read blogs

20 Mar 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

28 Feb 2017 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish realises Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis

Reports on a presentation at the Google Scholar Day: Changing current evaluation paradigms

20 Feb 2017 (updated 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Using Publish or Perish to do a literature review

Shows you how to do a comprehensive literature review with publish or perish

07 Feb 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish General Search - a Swiss Army Knife?

Lists five little known things you can do with the PoP General Citation Search

17 Jan 2017 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

14 Dec 2016 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish increases transparency in academic appointments

Illustrates how PoP has been used to expose nepotism and incompetence

14 Oct 2016 (updated 26 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Meeting an official guest or your academic hero?

Shows you how to prepare for any academic meeting in 5-10 minutes

15 Sep 2016 (updated 26 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

15 Sep 2016 (updated 26 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

05 Sep 2016 (updated 02 Aug 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

23 Aug 2016 (updated 26 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage

A prologue for a book on Google Scholar

17 Aug 2016 (updated 26 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to make your case for impact

Shows you how to make your case for impact by comparing your papers to the journal average

13 Jul 2016 (updated 26 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

12 Jun 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Complex author questions: very easy!

Details how to run author searches for multiple authors

01 Jun 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to assess journal impact?

Illustrates how Publish or Perish can be used to assess journal impact

06 May 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Looking for John Smith? About author disambiguation

Details how users of Publish or Perish can disambiguate authors

24 Mar 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Welcome to my blog!

Introduction to Anne-Wil's blog, which blends tools, evidence, and personal storytelling to make academic careers more transparent, humane, and impactful

18 Mar 2016 (updated 25 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing