52 pages tagged "web of science"

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

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

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 24 Nov 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

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 24 Nov 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Everything you always wanted to know about impact...

New edition of book chapter providing a quick overview of the what, why, how and where of research impact

30 Aug 2025 (updated 31 Aug 2025) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar

Publish or Perish tutorial

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

Multi-query center: ISI import

Publish or Perish tutorial

06 Feb 2016 (updated 02 Jun 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

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

How to use Publish or Perish effectively?

Presents the slides of a Bibliometrics Summer School session in July 2019

25 Sep 2019 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Publish or Perish version 7

Introducing Publish or Perish release 7

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

Everything you always wanted to know about impact...

Book chapter providing a quick overview of the what, why, how and where of research impact

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

Two new kids on the block: Crossref and Dimensions

Compares publication and citation coverage in the Crossref and Dimensions with Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus and Web of Science

11 May 2019 (updated 17 Apr 2026) - Anne-Wil Harzing

STI conference Leiden: metrics vs peer review

An extensive report on the conference, my presentation on the REF and gender initiatives

01 Oct 2018 (updated 03 Jul 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 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

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

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

How to import ISI and Scopus data in Publish or Perish?

Illustrates how Web of Science and Scopus data can be imported into Publish or Perish

11 Sep 2017 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Microsoft Academic is one year old: the Phoenix is ready to leave the nest

The third of my trilogy of papers on Microsoft Academic reporting on its coverage one year after its re-launch

26 Jun 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

Bibliometrics in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Reports on my presentation at a workshop in March 2017 organised by the UK LIS-Bibliometrics group

27 Mar 2017 (updated 19 Apr 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Is ISI misunderstanding the Social Sciences?

Documents how ISI is inappropriately applying Science-based criteria to articles in the Social Sciences

14 Mar 2017 (updated 24 Apr 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Google Scholar is a serious alternative to Web of Science

Argues that Google Scholar needs to be treated as a serious alternative data source for citation analysis

28 Feb 2017 (updated 02 Jun 2022) - 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

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

Can we use Google Scholar to identify highly-cited documents?

Introducing my new article on Google Scholar with the Granada EC3 group

30 Nov 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - Anne-Wil Harzing

Microsoft Academic: Is the Phoenix getting wings?

Compares citation coverage in the new Microsoft Academic with Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science

09 Nov 2016 (updated 02 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

Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage

A prologue for a book on Google Scholar

17 Aug 2016 (updated 03 Jun 2022) - 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

Microsoft Academic (Search): a Phoenix arisen from the ashes?

Assesses Microsoft Academic coverage through a detailed comparison with Google Scholar, the Web of Science, and Scopus

09 Jun 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