About Harzing.com
Background and history of my website
This website includes Anne-Wil's resumé, research programs, and publications, including her academic career guides and white papers. It also hosts the CYGNA Women in Academia pages, the Journal Quality List, and the Publish or Perish software for citation analysis.
The Harzing.com blog features posts on academic publishing, creating research impact, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, and Positive Academia.
If you are an early career academic, your best starting point is the Working in academia page.
Main themes of this website
- Working in academia - Effective promotion applications, Avoiding a desk-reject, Social media and your career, Improve your Research Profile
- Research evaluation - Journal Quality List, From h-index to hIa, Different data sources
- Publish or Perish - FAQ, User manual, Training materials, PoP in the news, Support PoP
- Doing research - Editorial Board Diversity, Concept of Cultural Distance, Response bias
- Language in IB - Review study, Language barriers & trust, MNC language barrier
- MNCs & International HRM - Ethnic similarity traps, Inpatriation, subsidiary growth & performance, Reframing ethnocentrism
- Transforming academia - Cygna, #PositiveAcademia, White papers, Manifesto
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About this website
This website adheres to the following five principles.
1. Personal voice
This website is written in Anne-Wil's personal voice and does not use GenAI. Anne-Wil's blog also contains guest posts by individual academics. These guest posts are vetted for fit with the website's ethos, but Anne-Wil takes no responsibility for their content.
2. Experience based
This website's advice is based on Anne-Wil's 35+ years of experience in research leadership and creating supportive, inclusive, and collaborative research cultures. However, it doesn't claim to be applicable to every single academic in every single disciplinary or country context.
3. Freshness monitored
This website is actively maintained and invidual pages are regularly updated. Most of the advice provided is timeless. However, my blog has celebrated its 10th anniversary and thus some of the earlier blogposts might no longer be applicable to current-day academia.
4. No monetization
This website does not use any monitization; I cover all the expenses of operating my website privately. If you want to support me in maintaining my website, consider buying a copy of one of my books (see above) or supporting the Publish or Perish software.
5. Corrections welcomed
If you find any errors or broken links on this website, please email Anne-Wil with the webpage address and any supporting information.
Copyright © 2026 Anne-Wil Harzing. All rights reserved. Page last modified on Sat 15 Aug 2026 15:43
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.
