Harzing.com blog 9 years old!

Celebrating my blog's ninth anniversary with a recap of the most read posts

Anne-Wil Harzing - (updated Sun 9 Feb 2025 14:20)

In March 2025, I am celebrating my blog's 9th anniversary. The 9th year saw 39 posts, a bit less than in previous years as I now take a longer blogging breaks over the Summer and Winter break. I was joined by my guest bloggers Tatiana Andreeva, Heejin Kim, and Sîan Stephens. My blog now has 466 postings. So for easier access, I created a Working in academia collator page. This post reviews some of the most visited pages in the past year.

Multi-part blogposts 

In 2020 I started writing multi-part blogpost series, which all turned out to be quite popular. 

This year all six of the academic promotions series again made it into the top-20 most visited posts, showing the strong need for information on this topic. A revised version of these posts also made it into my book: Writing effective promotion applications.

The Georgia State University CIBER interview

In the past year, I was also interviewed by Tamer Cavusgil at the Georgia State University CIBER about Harzing.com and the other free resources I offer to academics. He asked me some great questions that I turned into twelve videos and nine blogposts.  

All the things you never knew you could do with PoP

After publishing the new Publish or Perish Guide (Using the Publish or Perish software), I started a series of posts on the unexpected things you can do with the software. Here are the instalments to date:

The most popular posts? #1: Publish or Perish turns 18

What were the most popular posts in my 9th blogging year? With head and shoulders above the rest, was a 2021 post introducing PoP version 8. If you haven't updated your PoP version 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 yet, please do so as soon as possible. As this version included so many new features, I also created a 15-part series in 2021 discussing them one by one. Support us to keep PoP free for everyone by providing a small donation here: Support Publish or Perish.

Two 2016 and 2017 postings about using Publish or Perish for journal submissions and literature reviews retained their popularity.

Where to submit your paper? Which journals publish on your topic
How to use Publish or Perish to find out which journals publish on your topic

Using Publish or Perish to do a literature review
Shows you how to do a comprehensive literature review with Publish or Perish

Tatiana Andreeva's guest posts about literature reviews

Tatiana Andreeva's 2021 and 2023 postings about literature reviews also remained popular, clocking up more than 10,000 views combined.

Academic Etiquette

Two 2016 and 2017 blogposts that deal with ways to address academics, either as a student or as a fellow academic seem to have turned into perennial favourites. Last year they were joined by a new post on Using Linkedin recommendations to support others. However, the other Academic Etiquette posts such as Would you ask a male academic the same question?, Changing academic culture: one email at a time..., Thank You: The most underused words in academia? and Please be polite and considerate are also worth a read.

How to address other academics by email?
Provides suggestions on the best way to address academics by email

How to address your lecturer?
Shows how countries differ in their expected way of address for teachers.

Using LinkedIn recommendations to support others
Use LinkedIn's recommendation feature to write testimonials for others

6-year anniversary

CYGNA meetings

Since founding CYGNA in 2014 we have had 63 meetings and I have written a Cygna history. We also expanded the coordination team (see: Cygna videos: expanding the team) and created a page with Frequently asked questions and Conference meet-ups. During the year I wrote up posts on all of our meetings which received good visitors numbers from our network and beyond.

Ensure your research achieves the impact it deserves

In one way or another, the last three most popular posts - originally published in 2017 and 2018, but on the "most popular list" for the 6th/7th year now - all deal with research diffusion. 

Making your case for impact if you have few citations
Provides advice on strategies to demonstrate impact with a very low citation level

Google Scholar Citation Profiles: the good, the bad, and the better
Detailed discussion of how to use Google Scholar Profiles most effectively

How to promote your research achievements without being obnoxious?
Quick and easy to implement tips on how to promote your academic work

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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.

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