18 pages tagged "that's interesting"

Myth busted: most academic research DOES get cited

How click-bait was transformed into “fact” through poor academic referencing practices

23 Oct 2025 (updated 09 Apr 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 01 Dec 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to become an author of ESI Highly Cited Papers?

Documents how unscrupulous predatory open access journals can distort citation counts

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

06 Feb 2016 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The mystery of the phantom reference

Shows how sloppy writing and sloppy quality control lead to a non-existing article being cited nearly 400 times

26 Oct 2017 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - 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 19 May 2024) - 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 14 Jan 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Forever young? University age in the Times Higher Education Young Universities ranking

Queries whether the THE Young ranking is taking the definition of "young" a little too far

04 Apr 2022 (updated 04 Jul 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The phantom reference strikes again

Update of a 2017 white paper that shows that - with over 500 citations - the phantom reference is alive and kicking

28 Nov 2019 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The mystery of the phantom reference: a detective story

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

08 Nov 2017 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - 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 18 Nov 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Gender and geographical diversity in the JIBS editorial board: an update

Announces an update of white paper on editorial board diversity

06 Jun 2017 (updated 17 Jan 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to address your lecturer?

Shows how countries differ in their expected way of address for teachers

29 Sep 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

08 Sep 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - 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 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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.

20 Jul 2016 (updated 14 Jan 2024) - 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 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Welcome to my blog!

Introduction to Anne-Wil's blog

18 Mar 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing