Web resources: working in academia
Structured overview of four years of blogposts on the following themes: academic publishing, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, using the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, research focus.
Academic publishing
Resources related specifically to academic publishing and academic impact.
- Are referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility?
- Citation analysis for the Social Sciences: metrics and data-sources
- Everything you always wanted to know about impact...
- How many references is enough?
- How to avoid a desk-reject in seven steps [1/8] [8-part series]
- How to ensure your paper achieves the impact it deserves?
- How to keep up-to-date with the literature, but avoid information overload?
- How to make your case for impact
- How to write for US journals with non-US data
- LIS-Bibliometrics 10th anniversary event: The Future of Research Evaluation
- Middlesex University 2020 virtual writing boot-camp
- Middlesex University Summer 2019 writing boot-camp
- Open Syllabus Explorer: evidencing research-based teaching?
- Publishing in Management Education Journals
- Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say
- STI conference Leiden: metrics vs peer review
- Strange journal invitations popping up in my inbox every day
- Strategies for Publishing Pedagogical Research
- The four ailments of academic writing and how to cure them
- The four C's of getting cited
- The four P's of publishing
- Useful resources when preparing for journal submission
- Why does my paper get a desk-reject time and again?
Doing (international) Research
Resources related to doing academic research, with a particular focus on doing international research.
- AIB RM-SIG: Research methods in International Business
- Are referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility?
- Challenges in International survey research: illustrations and solutions
- Compete or cooperate: does it depend on the language?
- Do countries specialise in particular research areas?
- EIBA Leeds: IB in a Confused World Order
- EIBA panel: New Avenues for IB Research in the Digital Era
- English as a Lingua Franca in Academia
- EURAM 2017: Famous scholars in expatriate studies
- Experimental research and Nvivo
- Experimental research in international management
- GEM&L: Translation in International Business & Management
- Gender and geographical diversity in the JIBS editorial board: an update
- Intercultural Survey Research: Challenges & Solutions
- Language effects in international mail surveys
- Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say
- Should we distance ourselves from the cultural distance concept?
- The distinctiveness of European management scholarship
- The importance of context in International Business
- The International Research Process
- Untwisting tongues: Language research in International Management
- What if fully agree doesn't mean the same thing across cultures?
- When are theories (not) interesting?
Academic Etiquette
Shorter tongue-in-cheek posts on how to “behave” in academia. They do have a serious undertone though. Etiquette in academia is probably not a world apart from etiquette elsewhere. But it can’t hurt to be reminded :-)
- Don't write mass emails (1): distributing your work
- Don't write mass emails (2): asking for help
- How to address other academics by email?
- How to address your lecturer?
- How to promote your research achievements without being obnoxious?
- Last impressions count too! The importance of conclusions
- On academic life: collaborations and active engagement
- Please be polite and considerate
- Please don't respond to the entire mailing list
- Research fraud: salutary reading for the Summer holidays
- Submit to only one journal at a time
- Thank You: The most underused words in academia?
- What is that conference networking thing all about?
- When to say no?
- Would you ask a male academic the same question?
Using the Publish or Perish software
Posts related to using the Publish or Perish software. Publish or Perish is designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage, even if you have very few citations. You can also use it to decide which journals to submit to, to prepare for a job interview, to do a literature review, to do bibliometric research, to write laudatios or obituaries, or to do some homework before meeting your academic hero. Publish or Perish is a real Swiss army knife.
- Bank error in your favour? How to gain 3,000 citations in a week
- Citation analysis: Tips for Deans and other administrators
- From h-index to hIa: The ins and outs of research metrics
- Google Scholar Profiles: the good, the bad, and the better
- How to conduct a longitudinal literature review?
- How to use Publish or Perish effectively?
- Is Google Scholar flawless? Of course not!
- Making your case for impact if you have few citations
- Meeting an official guest or your academic hero?
- New: Publish or Perish now also exports abstracts
- Presenting your case for tenure or promotion?
- Publish or Perish General Search - a Swiss Army Knife?
- Running the REF on a rainy Sunday afternoon: Do metrics match peer review?
- Sacrifice a little accuracy for a lot more comprehensive coverage
- Using Publish or Perish to do a literature review
- Want to impress at an academic job interview?
- Where to submit your paper? Which journals publish on your topic
- Writing laudations or obituaries?
Academic careers and career progression
Posts dealing with a range of topics related to academic careers and career progression. Whilst the main focus is on research, there are also topics on administration and teaching.
- Be proactive, resilient & realistic!
- Celebrating CYGNA: Supporting women in academia
- CV of failures
- Everything you always wanted to know about impact...
- Finding a Unicorn? Research funding in Business & Management research
- Fostering research impact through social media
- How to create a successful academic career: AIB - Ask, Invest & Believe
- How to find your next research project?
- How to hold on to your sanity in academia
- How to prevent burn-out? About staying sane in academia
- How to write successful funding applications?
- Internal vs. external promotion
- Introducing online teaching as a response to COVID-19: Lessons from our experience
- Let's get emotional: the use of films in teaching tourism
- Living and working in Melbourne
- Mobility and gender matter in speed of promotion and development of career capital
- On academic life: collaborations and active engagement
- Open Syllabus Explorer: evidencing research-based teaching?
- Proof over promise: a more inclusive ranking of academics
- "Publier or perir": English in French academia
- Replication studies: learning from failure and success
- Social Media in Academia (1): Introduction [8-part series]
- Take care of the little ants
- The Dean's disease: the Darker Side of Power
- The Ethical Professor
- Trailblazers of diversity: editors and editorial board diversity
- You can’t be known if you don’t interact!
- Working effectively with support staff in academia
CYGNA: Women in Academia
Resources focusing on gender in academia, largely based on our two-monthly CYGNA meetings. If you'd like to be on the mailing list for CYGNA, just let me know. Note: many of these topics will be just as relevant for male academics.
- 1st CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: Coping with a Pandemic
- 2nd CYGNA Global Virtual Meeting: MBTI & Stress
- Alice Eagly: Gender stereotypes have changed but the changes are surprising
- Be nice AND get the corner office
- Big Data in the Social Sciences
- Building your academic brand through social media
- Careers, mobility and belonging: foreign women academics in the UK
- CYGNA's 5-year anniversary: Middlesex writing boot-camp
- Female academics: Wives of the organization?
- How to hold on to your sanity in academia
- It is sooo unfair: Internal versus External promotion
- Life-long learning in academia
- Negotiation workshop
- Publishing in Management, Psychology and International Business
- Secondary data sources and research portfolios
- Social network analysis and managing large research teams
- Understand your co-author(s) and yourself with MBTI
- WAIB Panel: Academic career strategies for women in the UK
- Why are there so few female Economics professors?
- Women academics in Australia and France
- Work and Family Life of Academics
- Work intensification, well-being and career advancement
- Working effectively with support staff in academia
Research focus
Short research write-ups that allow you to get the “gist” of research on a topic without having to read the entire article. Most posts relate to my own research on expatriation and HQ-subsidiary relationships, the international research process, and the quality and impact of research, but many Middlesex colleagues and CYGNA members have also published guest posts on my blog.
Expatriation and HQ-subsidiary relationships
- Country of origin matters for multinationals too
- Four seasons in one day? On the fluidity of identity in an era of global mobility
- Hablas vielleicht un peu la mia language?
- Language barriers in multinational companies
- MNC entry mode: it is not just about choice!
- New research monograph: Managing expatriates in China
- Not all international assignments are created equal
- Of bears, bumble-bees and spiders & who's in charge?
- Of Ostriches, Frogs, Birds and Lizards
- Subsidiaries down-under: victims of their geographical isolation?
- Testing key IB typologies: Bartlett & Ghoshal and Gupta & Govindarajan
- The bridging role of expatriates and inpatriates
- The golden triangle: standardization, localization or dominance?
- The many benefits of a shared language in multinationals
- Transfer of HR practices in multinational companies
- Why is learning the host country language important for expatriates?
Doing international research
- Compete or cooperate: does it depend on the language?
- Do countries specialise in particular research areas?
- Challenges in International survey research: illustrations and solutions
- Experimental research in international management
- Intercultural Survey Research: Challenges & Solutions
- Language effects in international mail surveys
- Should we distance ourselves from the cultural distance concept?
- The importance of context in International Business
- What if fully agree doesn't mean the same thing across cultures?
Quality and impact of academic research
- Are referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility?
- Australian research output in Economics & Business: quantity over quality?
- Citation analysis for the Social Sciences: metrics and data-sources
- Everything you always wanted to know about impact...
- Health warning: Might contain multiple personalities
- Is ISI misunderstanding the Social Sciences?
- Microsoft Academic is one year old: the Phoenix is ready to leave the nest
- Proof over promise: a more inclusive ranking of academics
- Strange journal invitations popping up in my inbox every day
- To rank or not to rank
- Trailblazers of diversity: editors and editorial board diversity
Guest posts by colleagues and CYGNA members
- And then there were none: employee relations in marketising universities
- How to hold on to your sanity in academia
- How to manage multi-lingual teams?
- How social & behavioural science can support COVID-19 pandemic response
- Let's get emotional: the use of films in teaching tourism
- Managing expatriates' identity: subtle desire, big impact
- Mobility and gender matter in speed of promotion and development of career capital
- Onto-Epistemology in Business and Management Research
- "Publier or perir": English in French academia
- R&D Internationalization to China: MNEs new favourite destination
- Saturday night fever during a pandemic
Support Publish or Perish development
Like my blogposts? Consider supporting one of the other free resources I am offering: Publish or Perish. The development of the Publish or Perish software is a volunteering effort that has been ongoing since 2006. Publish or Perish was designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact and tenure and promotion to its best advantage, even if you have very few citations. You can also use it to decide which journals to submit to, to prepare for a job interview, to do a literature review, to do bibliometric research, to write laudatios or obituaries, or to do some homework before meeting your academic hero. Publish or Perish is a real Swiss army knife.
Download and use of Publish or Perish is and will remain free (gratis), but your support toward the costs of hosting, bandwidth, and software development is appreciated. Only about one user out of every ten thousand donates, so your support is very welcome. You can support Publish or Perish by donating, or by buying a PDF copy of the Publish or Perish Book or the Publish or Perish Tutorial.
If you find Publish or Perish useful, then this is your chance to say "thank you" to the developers.
| Product name | Unit price | Quantity |
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| Publish or Perish donation (small) | GBP 1.00 | |
| Publish or Perish donation (medium) | GBP 10.00 | |
| Publish or Perish donation (large) | GBP 50.00 | |
| Publish or Perish donation (corporate) | GBP 500.00 | |
| Publish or Perish guide (PDF, 2010) | GBP 14.95 | |
| Publish or Perish tutorial (PDF, 2016) | GBP 9.95 |
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Copyright © 2020 Anne-Wil Harzing. All rights reserved. Page last modified on Mon 27 Jul 2020 15:15
Anne-Wil Harzing is Professor of International Management at Middlesex University, London and visiting professor of International Management at Tilburg University. 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.
