77 pages tagged "citation metrics"

Quality and Impact of Academic Research [1995-current]

Research program 6: Editors & editorial board diversity, comparing research output across countries, Google Scholar and bibliometrics for the Social Sciences

06 Feb 2016 (updated 10 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

Tells the story of the eight most significant failures in my academic career and outlines how every single one of them had unexpected upsides

19 May 2026 (updated 10 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

2006-2026 - The changing usage of Publish or Perish over the years

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 10 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

17 Jun 2026 (updated 05 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why sometimes a failure can be a blessing in disguise

Short introduction to my latest white paper: My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

10 Jun 2026 (updated 07 Jul 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Making your case for tenure and promotion? Use PoP to compare citations to your papers to the journal average

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 18 Mar 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

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

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 18 Mar 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Need to find reviewers, examiners, speakers, or referees: Publish or Perish 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 17 Feb 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 27 Jan 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Referrals to my website in 2025 compared to 2023

Compares referring websites between 2023 and 2025 and shows the rise of ChatGPT as a referrer

07 Jan 2026 (updated 07 Jan 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

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

Research Impact 101

Provides an overview of six key issues in the assessment of research impact.

18 Jun 2022 (updated 24 Nov 2025) - 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 23 Oct 2025) - 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 10 May 2025) - 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 Nov 2025) - 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 08 Nov 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Conducting 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 19 Mar 2025) - 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 08 Nov 2024) - 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 19 Oct 2024) - 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 19 Nov 2024) - 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 09 Oct 2024) - 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 01 Jun 2024) - 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

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 04 Feb 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

REF, rankings & reputation

Provides an overview of my work in preparation for REF 2021, research rankings, and reputation management

07 Mar 2023 (updated 19 Apr 2024) - 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 26 Feb 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

What about the Christmas turkey?

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

22 Dec 2023 (updated 01 Jan 2024) - 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 01 Jan 2024) - 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 01 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Metrics: h and g-index

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 15 Apr 2023) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (8): Tips for time poor academics

The eight in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation & impact. Evidences the positive effect of social media use, with tips for social media newbies.

12 Apr 2023 (updated 14 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (7): Follow the 7 steps for impact

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.

15 Mar 2023 (updated 14 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (6): The why and how of Social Media

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.

13 Feb 2023 (updated 14 Jan 2024) - 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 14 Jan 2024) - 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 14 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

CYGNA: How to manage individual research performance

Reports on our 49th meeting with a discussion of research-based evidence on how to manage research performance

12 Dec 2022 (updated 15 Apr 2023) - 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 14 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (2): What is impact and why should you care?

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.

24 Oct 2022 (updated 14 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Improve your Research Profile (1): Why is it so important?

The first in an 8-part series on improving your research profile, reputation and impact. Explains the rationale behind this series.

26 Sep 2022 (updated 14 Jan 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Research impact 101

Short introduction to my new white paper providing an overview of six key issues in the assessment of research impact

29 Aug 2022 (updated 19 Oct 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Stating your case: Argue for quality

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Stating your case: Edited volume

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Stating your case: Journal average

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Stating your case: Pick metrics wisely

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Stating your case: Reference group

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Stating your case

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Metrics: More h-indices

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Metrics: hI,norm and hIa

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Metrics

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 May 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 18 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - 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 17 Sep 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

The 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 26 May 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 19 Oct 2024) - 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 27 Aug 2024) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish version 7

Introducing Publish or Perish release 7

02 Sep 2019 (updated 02 Nov 2021) - David Adams

"Publier or perir": English in French academia

Guest post by Anne Laure Humbert on the role of English in French academia

20 Apr 2019 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne Laure Humbert

How to promote your research achievements without being obnoxious?

Provides some quick and easy to implement tips on how to promote your academic work

01 Dec 2018 (updated 10 May 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish version 6

Introduces Publish or Perish release 6 and its new data sources

15 Nov 2017 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Why metrics can (and should?) be used in the Social Sciences

Reports on my presentation presented at "The Future of Research Assessment Peer Review vs. Metrics"

26 May 2017 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Six Essential Science Indicators highly-cited papers

Lists six of my papers that are Web of Science highly-cited papers, i.e. top 1% most cited in their fields

21 Dec 2016 (updated 17 Sep 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