17 pages tagged "bibliometric accuracy"

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.

06 Feb 2016 (updated 06 Jul 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 06 Jul 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 02 Jul 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 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage

Invited prologue for a book on Google Scholar

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

Accuracy: Selective merge

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: Merge duplicates

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: Check year

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy: PoP vs GS for journals

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Accuracy

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - 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 24 Apr 2022) - 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 13 Jan 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Is Google Scholar flawless? Of course not!

Reviews the major limitations of Google Scholar

01 Oct 2017 (updated 02 Apr 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Bank error in your favour? How to gain 3,000 citations in a week

Shows how I gained 3,000 citations in a week through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science

21 Sep 2017 (updated 06 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Web of Science: How to be robbed of 10 years of citations in one week!

Shows how I was "robbed" of citations through inaccurate publication matching in the Web of Science

15 Feb 2017 (updated 06 Jul 2026) - 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

Health warning: Might contain multiple personalities

Shows how a lack of name disambiguation leads to serious distortion of the Essential Science Indicators

25 May 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing