31 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 03 Nov 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

In defence of the Business School: One myth and four truths

Argues we need to be prouder of being Business School academics. We deliver research that is both high-quality and societally impactful on a shoestring budget, whilst educating a fifth of all students in the UK.

29 Apr 2025 (updated 03 Nov 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Value for money in the UK REF

Argues that post-92 Business Schools pull above their weight in many elements of the REF, that QR funding should be distributed more equally, and that we should have a ring-fenced budget to promote sector-wide learning

06 Sep 2025 (updated 03 Nov 2026) - 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 03 Nov 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 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The myth of the academic superstar - or why name disambiguation is crucial

Shows how a lack of name disambiguation leads to a serious distortion of the Essential Science Indicators ranking of the top-1% most cited academics

19 Jan 2026 (updated 31 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 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to address your teacher?

Documents large differences between countries in the way students normally expect to address their teachers.

06 Feb 2016 (updated 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

White papers

A list of my white papers with linked access

06 Feb 2016 (updated 31 Oct 2026) - 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 21 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

12 Jun 2016 (updated 21 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Citation analysis across disciplines: Impact of different data sources and metrics

Documents how different data ources and different citations metrics might lead to very different conclusions in cross-disciplinary comparisons

06 Feb 2016 (updated 21 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Doing research in the analog 20th century - a lifetime ago?

Short introduction to my white paper that documents how technologies during my PhD were vastly different from what we now take for granted

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

Can you really publish 20-40 articles a day?

Introducing my new white paper: The myth of the academic superstar - or why name disambiguation is crucial

01 Apr 2026 (updated 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Click-bait transformed into “fact” through poor academic referencing practices

Introducing my new white paper - Myth busted: most academic research DOES get cited

25 Nov 2025 (updated 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Value for money in the UK Research Excellence Framework

Short summary of my white paper: Value for money in the UK REF: Why invest in post-92 Business Schools and sector-wide collaboration?

15 Oct 2025 (updated 31 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 31 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 31 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

Forever young? University age in the THE Young Universities ranking

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

04 Apr 2022 (updated 30 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Top-50 academics in Business & Management worldwide: new 2021 ranking

Discusses a new individual ranking based on Scopus citations as well as some concrete suggestions for changing performance appraisal

26 Nov 2021 (updated 30 Oct 2026) - 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 29 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

An Australian "productivity boom"? ... or maybe just a database expansion?

Shows how difficult longitudinal bibliometric analyses are when database coverage changes

24 Jul 2018 (updated 29 Oct 2026) - 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 29 Oct 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 31 Oct 2026) - 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 23 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How to address your lecturer?

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

29 Sep 2016 (updated 26 Oct 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

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 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

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 02 Nov 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing