My YouTube channel - overview of videos
200+ videos on "living the academic life" by topic: personal, career stages, publishing, PoP & JQL, research impact, CYGNA, research skills, research culture, social media, and academic life
In the Covid-19 pandemic, I opened my own YouTube channel Harzing Academic Resources. So far I have published more than 200 videos. The table below shows the main video topics and links to a list of individual videos or playlists for each topic with a short description of its content. Did a particular video help you? Drop me a note please. I'd love to hear.
| My own career | Career stages | Publishing tips | PoP & JQL | Research impact |
| CYGNA women | Research skills | Research culture | Social media | Academic life |
My own career
- Personal – find out what I wanted to be as a child, how I ended up as an IB scholar, my 2nd best career, and what I am most proud of.
- My career history – takes you through my studies and PhD degree, role models and career crafting, and a message to my younger self.
- My research interests – reviews my past and current research interest, and discusses which articles I am most proud of.
- My research in International Business – how would I explain my research to a lay audience, and where do I see IB research in the next 5–10 years?
- Why did you create your website? – takes you through its development history and its key resources.
- Tells the story of my first ever academic article after it was elected as #1 in the top-20 articles in global mobility.
- My key mentoring tips – find out what I wish I would have known when I was an early career academic.
- How do you find the time – explains how I am able to find the time to provide resources and how we can co-create academic communities.
- Would you change anything? – looking back on my academic career what do I wish I had done differently.
Academic career stages
- The ABC of careers – Introduction: Careers as marathons, Early Career: Ask, Believe, Cultivate, Mid–Career: Adjust, Balance, Create, Late Career: Amplify, Build, Contribute.
- How to navigate academia as a PhD student – introduces the AIB (Ask, Invest, Believe) motto and applies it to my own PhD studies.
- Doing a PhD later in life – should you do it and what are the challenges?
- ECRs & research – why the review process might be so discouraging and what you can do to maximize your chances of publication.
- ECRs & leadership – how and why early career academics can (and should) get involved in leadership.
- Quick tips for ECRs – provides two quick tips that every ECR can apply right now to create fruitful interactions with senior academics.
- Don’t be shy to ask – talks about the “stupid” questions I asked as a naïve early career researcher and why we shouldn’t be shy to ask.
- Walk the talk for senior academics – how to swap critique for action and give junior academics a chance to shine.
Academic publishing
- Do I need to publish in top journals only and Quality or Quantity – reflections on the importance (or not) of publishing in "the best" journals.
- Full playlist for my writing boot-camp – seven videos taking you through the key steps to avoid a desk-reject, with a focus on title, abstract, introduction and conclusion.
- Choosing your target journal – reviews seven different options for publishing work with societal impact.
- Persistence in publishing – Helene Tenzer's tale of a 10-year publication journey.
- How to deal with journal rejections – chocolate? A punch ball? Or maybe a discussion with your co–authors?
- Five lessons from my first paper – what I learned: courage, journal rankings, second chances, co-authors, and persistence.
Publish or Perish & the Journal Quality List
- The Publish or Perish software – what is it, why did I create it, and how has it democratized citation analysis and academic transparency.
- Citation analysis in Publish or Perish – series of four shorts: PoP's data sources, why use PoP, training resources, how to use citation benchmarks.
- Publish or Perish demos – three demos on interface and data sources, author searches, and literature reviews.
- The Journal Quality List – what is it, why did I create it, and how has it helped to make academia more inclusive.
Research impact
- How to get cited – series of four 2-5-minute shorts about how to get cited (ethically!)
- Measuring research impact – series of seven 2-5-minute shorts about research metrics.
- Seven steps to impact – series of seven 2-5-minute shorts on ensuring your paper gets the impact it deserves.
- What made my early work impactful – the factors that may improve research impact, such as audience, novelty, and titles.
- How to do impactful research – about academic and non-academic impact and the four Cs of citation.
CYGNA women's network
- Supporting female academics – on gender inequality in academia and the establishment of the CYGNA women's network.
- What is the CYGNA women’s network – talks about why I set up the network and what we do in the network.
- CYGNA team members – series of 2023 videos introducing the new CYGNA organisational team.
- CYGNA 10–year anniversary – a video of our 10–year anniversary event at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor park.
- CYGNA journey through its history – traces the history of the network from 2014 to 2024.
Research skills
- Doing a literature review – recording of my session in the Middlesex PhD coursework takes you through the eight steps of the process.
- Research strategies & trade–offs – recording of my session in the Middlesex PhD coursework, outlining eight research strategies and their trade-offs.
- My career guides – how and why did I create them and what they are about.
- Dare to be different – encourages all of us to be more daring and critical in our research.
Research cultures
- Building inclusive research cultures – the challenges & opportunities, leadership options, and advice for Research Deans.
- Supporting Early Career Researchers – the core issues, the challenges involved, and the future.
- Building research culture – short review of my work on building research cultures and crafting a comprehensive staff development programme.
- How to co–create our academic community – about what we can all do as individuals to improve research cultures.
- Walk the talk for senior academics – appeals to senior academics to swap critique for action and give junior academics a chance to shine.
- Academic volunteering – why it is important and how it can benefit you.
Your research profile & social media
- The why and how of social media – the pros and cons, Google Scholar Profiles, ORCID, LinkedIn, Twitter, visual sharing, blogging, promotion without being obnoxious.
- Improve your research profile – an 8-part series on how to improve your research profile. This is a nearly 3-hour presentation, so watch this if you want the full picture.
- How to set up your research profiles: LinkedIn, ResearchGate and Twitter and Google Scholar Profiles – an earlier on-site presentation; watch this if you prefer this type of presentation.
- Why academic blogging is great – a passionate plea for trying out blogging.
- Creating impact in little time – series of 3-4-minute shorts with practical tips on how to start with social media and evidence it creates research impact.
Academic life
- Building a sustainable academic career – Martyna Śliwa's presentation on how to progress in academia without sacrificing your work-life balance.
- What about institutional fit – about the importance of finding your "happy place".
- The UK REF – an explanation of the Research Excellence Framework, the UK's national research evaluation, and what it means for early career academics.
- Effective promotion applications – tips in four seasons: Spring [start early], Summer [focus on the how & why], Autumn [focus on impact] and Winter [write for the reader].
- My top–3 career tips – what are the three most important things in academic careers.
- Mistakes ECRs could avoid – about competition, conversations and cement.
- Why academia can still be a great career – argues we would be more appreciative of our priviliges if we compared ourselves to artists.
Other resources
- Harzing.com blog posts by theme
- Frontline International Business interviews
- Academic publishing resources
- Inspirational readings for female academics
- AoM Presidential addresses
- Video resources: International HRM
- Video resources: International Business
- Publish or Perish - A citation analysis software program which helps academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.
- Journal Quality List - Ranking of academic journals in Business & Management.
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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.
