22 pages tagged "h-index"

From "Publish or Perish" to publishing with impact

Traces PoP’s origin story and its changing usage over the years. Reflects on how to measure and improve our citation impact, and on the need to broaden our conception of both impact and the nature of academic careers.

03 Aug 2026 (updated 09 Nov 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 03 Nov 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

From h-index to hIa: The ins and outs of research metrics

Introduces the hI,annual as a new research metric that allows comparison across disciplines and career stages

06 Feb 2016 (updated 03 Nov 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish - free software

Explains the use of Publish or Perish and its metrics

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 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 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

White papers

A list of my white papers with linked access

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

Publish or Perish training resources

Lists training resources for Publish or Perish

01 Oct 2020 (updated 30 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

How the publish or perish software facilitated the "impact turn" in academia

Short introduction to my new white paper that traces PoP’s origin story and its changing usage over the years. It also reflects on how to measure and improve our citation impact, and on the need to broaden our conception of both impact and the nature of academic careers.

28 Oct 2026 (updated 29 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Reflections on norms for the h-index and related indices

Provides norm scores for the h-index and related measures for Management and International Business

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

Comparing the Google Scholar h-index with the ISI Journal Impact Factor

Proposes an alternative metric – Hirsch’s h-index – and data source – Google Scholar – to assess journal impact.

06 Feb 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 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Reflections on the h-index

Introduces the h-index, m-quotient, g-index, contemporary h-index and individual h-index

06 Feb 2016 (updated 26 Jul 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

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

"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 29 Oct 2026) - Anne Laure Humbert

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

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 29 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Citation analysis for the Social Sciences: metrics and data-sources

Argues that a fair and inclusive cross-disciplinary comparison of research performance is possible using Google Scholar and the hIa metric

20 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

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

Proof over promise: a more inclusive ranking of academics

Shows how using a different data source and different metrics completely changes the Dutch Economics top-40

07 Jul 2016 (updated 31 Oct 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing