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
Comparing your own research metrics over time
The most basic bibliometric research that can be done easily with Publish or Perish is to compare your own research metrics over time. You could repeat a search for your name every month, quarter, or year. Longitudinal results for individuals can be used to establish progress for a tenure, promotion, or grant application.
Publish or Perish simplifies this process by making it easy for you to duplicate your original search. Do this by simply selecting the search and use a copy/past command or by right-clicking and selecting Duplicate Current Search. Above is a monthly search of my Google Scholar Profile metrics. Note that some metrics (hI,annual, hA, acc10) will decline (temporarily) at the turn of the year as the number of years active increases by one.
If you want to create nice visuals of the growth of your metrics over the years, simply select all searches, right-click, select Copy Results, click Metrics for Excel with Header, and then paste the results into Excel. You can then easily create beautiful figures of any metrics you would like to dispay.
Earlier projects in this series
- Who creates Google Scholar Profiles? [January 2024]
- What about the Christmas turkey? [December 2023]
- The history of Science [November 2023]
- Historical development of a discipline [October 2023]
Publish or Perish is a Swiss army knife!
These are just a few of the hundreds of nuggets of quality information that you can find using the free Publish or Perish software. Are you interested in finding out more about how you can use the software to conduct effective author, journal, topic, and affiliation searches?
Do you want to learn how to use it for tenure or promotion applications, conducting literature reviews and meta-analyses, deciding where to submit your paper, preparing for job interviews, writing laudations or obituaries, finding reviewers or keynote speakers, uncovering “citation connections” between scholars, and doing bibliometric research?
To read about all of this and much much more, buy my brand-new guide in my Crafting your career in academia series: Using the Publish or Perish software. At 375 pages it is chock-full of tips and tricks on how to get the most out of the software. I promise you will discover at least a dozen use cases that you had never even thought about before!
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Anne-Wil Harzing is Emerita Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London. 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.
