Publish or Perish tutorial now in book format

Introduces the Publish or Perish tutorial: 80 easy tips to get the best out of the software

Anne-Wil Harzing - Mon 5 Sep 2016 14:44 (updated Wed 9 Nov 2022 09:45)

Through my technical support for Publish or Perish over the last 10 years and the Publish or Perish Survey, I have come to realise that there is room for improvement in the way most PoP users use the program. Obviously, there are many help resources: a help file, an FAQ and the Publish or Perish book. However, most users don’t seem to consult those. Therefore I created an even easier way to get familiar with the PoP software.

Tutorial: 80 PoP tips (pdf version)

This tutorial of 80 tips introduces the user to the main functions of Publish or Perish in short and easy chunks. Most sections can be read independently, but the collection is structured in a logical order, so you can work through it doing one section at a time.

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Contents of the book

Finding out your publications, citations and h-index

We will start out with the most common usage scenario: academics searching for their own name, usually to find their publications, citations and h-index. In doing so we also discuss in detail how to disambiguate author names.

Journal search, General search, and Multi-query center

In addition to an author search, Publish or Perish also provides the option to do a journal search. For more demanding users, the general search function opens up a host of additional search options. The multi-query center stores all of your queries and allows for sophisticated query management.

From query export to promotion, from job interview to literature review, and much more...

Amongst many other things, you will learn about a multitude of metrics, how to manage, import and export your queries, how to use PoP to make your case for tenure or promotion, how to decide which journals to submit to, how to prepare for a job interview, how to do a literature review, and even how to do bibliometric research.

Google Scholar limitations

Although Google Scholar typically provides better coverage than Scopus or the Web of Science, it is not a bibliometric database. Instead it relies on parsing scholarly literature on the Web. Therefore, this tutorial also covers the main limitations of Google Scholar, including lack of discipline filtering, truncation of author and journal names, and the occasional wrong parsing of years, master records, author names.

Detailed contents

PoP tip 1: Author search (1): Three easy steps
PoP tip 2: Author search (2): Do include the quotes (“ ”)
PoP tip 3: Author search (3): Use selective exclusion
PoP tip 4: Author search (4): Use multiple initials
PoP tip 5: Author search (5): Exclude homonyms
PoP tip 6: Author search (6): Use full given name
PoP tip 7: Author search (7): Use year restrictions
PoP tip 8: Author search (8): Use multiple names
PoP tip 9: Author search (9): Exclude co-authors
PoP tip 10: Author search (10): Use research fields
PoP tip 11: Author search (11): Use affiliation
PoP tip 12: Journal search (1): Basic Search
PoP tip 13: Journal search (2): Excluding namesakes by journal name or keywords
PoP tip 14: Journal search (3): Excluding journal namesakes by ISSN
PoP tip 15: Journal search (4): Excluding by ISSN: a quick-and-dirty strategy
PoP tip 16: Journal search (5): Searching by ISSN
PoP tip 17: Journal search (6): Year restrictions
PoP tip 18: Journal search (7): Searching chapters in an edited volume
PoP tip 19: General citation search (1): Basic Search
PoP tip 20: General citation search (2): Finding a specific paper
PoP tip 21: General citation search (3): Finding a specific academic
PoP tip 22: General citation search (4): Advanced Author Queries
PoP tip 23: General citation search (5): What has a journal published on a topic?
PoP tip 24: General citation search (6): Institutional searches
PoP tip 25: Multi-query center (1): Introduction
PoP tip 26: Multi-query center (2): Tree view
PoP tip 27: Multi-query center (3): List view
PoP tip 28: Multi-query center (4): Exporting
PoP tip 29: Multi-query center (5): Importing (1): Re-Importing exported data
PoP tip 30: Multi-query center (6): Importing (2): Importing ISI data
PoP tip 31: Multi-query center (7): Importing (3): Importing Scopus data
PoP tip 32: Multi-query center (8): Exporting and Importing Archives
PoP tip 33: Multi-query center (9): Longitudinal comparisons
PoP tip 34: Multi-query center (10): Aggregating queries
PoP tip 35: Accuracy: PoP does NOT give results different from Google Scholar
PoP tip 36: Improve author search accuracy (1): Check if the years make sense
PoP tip 37: Improve author search accuracy (2): Merge duplicate citations
PoP tip 38: Improve author search accuracy (3): Selective merging
PoP tip 39: What the heck are all these metrics (1)? Simple metrics
PoP tip 40: What the heck are all these metrics (2)? H and G index
PoP tip 41: What the heck are all these metrics (3)? hI,norm and hI,annual
PoP tip 42: What the heck are all these metrics (4)? Even more h-indices
PoP tip 43: Present your case (1): Find the pearls in your record
PoP tip 44: Present your case (2): Create your own reference group
PoP tip 45: Present your case (3): Pick your metrics wisely
PoP tip 46: Present your case (4): Compare your best papers to the journal average
PoP tip 47: Present your case (5): Present comprehensive cites for edited volumes
PoP tip 48: Present your case (6): Argue for quality by association
PoP tip 49: Evaluating other academics (1): Reviewers, examiners, referees
PoP tip 50: Evaluating other academics (2): Meeting an academic visitor
PoP tip 51: Evaluating other academics (3): Writing laudations or obituaries
PoP tip 52: Evaluating other academics (4): Publication awards
PoP tip 53: Evaluating other academics (5): Preparing for a job interview
PoP tip 54: Tips for Deans and other administrators
PoP tip 55: Where to submit your paper? (1): Which journals publish on your topic
PoP tip 56: Where to submit your paper? (2): Comparing journals by impact
PoP tip 57: Where to submit your paper? (3): Have you missed any papers?
PoP tip 58: How to conduct a literature review search?
PoP tip 59: Identifying key authors, journals, and publications in a field
PoP tip 60: Development of the literature over time
PoP tip 61: Bibliometric research with Google Scholar
PoP tip 62: Doing bibliometric research for authors
PoP tip 63: Doing bibliometric research for journals: co-authorship patterns
PoP tip 64: Google Scholar: strengths and weaknesses
PoP tip 65: Google Scholar limitations (1): Truncating author and journal names
PoP tip 66: Google Scholar limitations (2): The wrong master record
PoP tip 67: Google Scholar limitations (3): Wrong author names
PoP tip 68: Google Scholar limitations (4): Online listing as year of publication
PoP tip 69: Google Scholar limitations (5): Stray citations
PoP tip 70: Google Scholar limitations (6): All cites attributed to the last edition
PoP tip 71: Google Scholar limitations (7): Removal of subject areas
PoP tip 72: Google Scholar limitations (8): Publication years, not citation years
PoP tip 73: Google Scholar limitations (9): Slow searches
PoP tip 74: Google Scholar limitations (10): CAPTCHAS
PoP tip 75: Using PoP (1): The buttons
PoP tip 76: Using PoP (2): Resizing and sorting columns
PoP tip 77: Using PoP (3): Context menu
PoP tip 78: Using PoP (4): Top and left-hand menu
PoP tip 79: Setting preferences: General preferences
PoP tip 80: Setting preferences: Query preferences

Anne-Wil Harzing is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London and visiting professor of International Management at Tilburg University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a select group of distinguished AIB members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the scholarly development of the field of international business. In addition to her academic duties, she also maintains the Journal Quality List and is the driving force behind the popular Publish or Perish software program.

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