Using Publish or Perish

How to use the Publish or Perish software

David Adams - Tue 20 Dec 2016 15:55 (updated Sun 31 Oct 2021 18:04)

To use Publish or Perish (PoP), you need a working Internet connection. PoP uses various data sources to obtain citation information, which is then analyzed and converted to a number of statistics. The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a text file (for future reference or further analysis).

Main window

The most important areas in the Publish or Perish main window are shown below.

Search types

Please refer to the following topics for details about the various search types:

• Author search
• Publication/Journal search
• General/keyword search
• Affiliation search

To manage sets of searches, consult the Search results help topic.

To export the resulting data, see Exporting the data.

Background information

For important background information about the use of Publish or Perish, see:

• Citation metrics
• Accuracy of the results

Reference information

For reference information, see:

• Dialogs reference
• Messages reference
• Command reference