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Structured overview of Harzing.com blog posts on the following themes: positive academia, academic publishing, creating research impact, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, using the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, research focus and conference reports.
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Personal posts
- IB Frontline interview: personal section
- IB Frontline interview: research section
- IB Frontline interview: mentoring section
- Positive Leadership Award
- This little girl is me: my story in the Inspiring Girls campaign
- What are your current passions and interests?
- What's the story behind your first paper?
- The Academic Woman interview (1): My career history
- The Academic Woman Interview (2): My research passions
- The Academic Woman Interview (3): Research culture
- The Academic Woman Interview (4): Research mentorship
Interview about Harzing.com and other resources
- Why I offered resources from early on in my career
- When and why did you create your website?
- Why did you create the JQL and the PoP software?
- What is CYGNA and how did it start?
- Why I love blogging and creating videos
- How do I practice #PositiveAcademia?
- My top-3 career tips
- What are mistakes ECRs could avoid?
- How do you find the time to do all of this?
Positive academia
- Be proactive, resilient & realistic!
- Changing academic culture: one email at a time...
- How to create a sustainable academic career
- Inclusive Academia (1) How my career trajectory led to a focus on inclusion
- Inclusive Academia (2) Inclusive research evaluation
- Inclusive Academia (3) Supporting female academics
- Inclusive Academia (4) How to support Early Career Researchers
- Leading with Kindness: one of 50 Leading Lights in UK
- Middlesex 2022 ECR event: back to Cumberland Lodge
- Please be polite and considerate
- Proactive Academia (1) On proactiveness in academia
- Proactive Academia (2) Tips for junior academics
- Proactive Academia (3) My advice for senior academics
- Proactive Academia (4) #PositiveAcademia: Towards a kinder academic world
- Positive Leadership Award
- Seven signs it’s time to get out: spotting toxic collaborations in academia
- Supporting Early Career Researchers
- Supportive, inclusive & collaborative research cultures
- Thank You: The most underused words in academia?
- Using LinkedIn recommendations to support others
- WAIB Woman of the Year award
- What are your current passions and interests?
Academic publishing
- Academics and artists
- A framework for your literature review article: where to find one?
- Are referencing errors undermining our scholarship and credibility?
- Do you really want to publish your literature review? Advice for PhD students
- Five lessons from my first publications
- Friends and co-authors
- From little seed to fully-grown tree: a paper development journey
- Hello from the other side: Reflections on a decade at the editor’s desk
- How many references is enough?
- How to avoid a desk-reject in seven steps [1/8] [8-part series]
- How to get published in top journals?
- How to get your research noticed online?
- How to keep up-to-date with the literature, but avoid information overload?
- How to prepare a large-scale ESRC funding application?
- How to publish an unusual paper?
- How to write for US journals with non-US data
- Is a literature review publication a low-cost project?
- Literature reviews can come in all shapes and sizes
- Middlesex University 2021 virtual writing boot-camp
- Middlesex University 2020 virtual writing boot-camp
- Middlesex University Summer 2019 writing boot-camp
- Middlesex university staff development: Boot-camp #8
- On how to be a good co-author – and finding even better ones
- Own your place in the world by writing a book
- Our 9th Middlesex writing bootcamp [includes my retirement messages]
- Publishing in Management Education Journals
- Publishing with a student: Expatriate Failure revisited
- Rejection, withdrawal, and acceptance: A story about message-journal fit
- Resources on doing a literature 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 P's of publishing
- The wonderful world of book publishing
- Tips on doing a literature review
- Useful resources when preparing for journal submission
- Want to publish a literature review? Think of it as an empirical paper
- Why does my paper get a desk-reject time and again?
- Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when?
Research impact
- Citation analysis for the Social Sciences: metrics and data-sources
- Everything you always wanted to know about impact...
- Forever young? University age in the THE Young Universities ranking
- Fostering research impact through social Google
- How many references is enough?
- How to do impactful research?
- How to ensure your paper achieves the impact it deserves?
- How to evidence & improve research impact?
- How to keep your Google Scholar Profile clean?
- How to make your case for impact
- How to measure research impact: YouTube series
- How to improve your research impact: YouTube series
- Impact is impact is impact? Well, no...
- Improve your Research Profile (1): Why is it so important?
- Improve your Research Profile (2): What is impact and why should you care?
- Improve your Research Profile (3): Getting savvy about data sources & metrics
- Improve your Research Profile (4): Citation analysis in the PoP software
- Improve your Research Profile (5): The 4Cs of getting cited
- Improve your Research Profile (6): The why and how of Social Media
- Improve your Research Profile (7): Follow the 7 steps for impact
- Improve your Research Profile (8): Tips for time poor academics
- LIS-Bibliometrics 10th anniversary event: The Future of Research Evaluation
- Middlesex Business School top-ranked in REF 2021 for research impact
- Open Syllabus Explorer: evidencing research-based teaching?
- REF Impact case studies: 8 top tips
- Relevant & Impactful Research: words to action - outcome to process
- Research Academics as Change Makers - Opportunities and Barriers
- Research impact 101
- Return to Meaning: A Social Science with Something to Say
- STI conference Leiden: metrics vs peer review
- Social Media in Academia: Using LinkedIn to promote your research
- The four C's of getting cited
- The individual annualised h-index: a 10-year study
- Top-50 most higly-cited academics in Business & Management worldwide
- Top-50 academics in Business & Management worldwide: new 2021 ranking
- Top-50 academics in Business & Management worldwide: new 2022 ranking
- What made my early work impactful?
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
- 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
- Intercultural Survey Research: Challenges & Solutions
- Language effects in international mail surveys
- Research Methods in IB – Trends and Future Agenda
- Should we distance ourselves from the cultural distance concept?
- Social media in academia: Using LinkedIn in a mixed-method research design
- The distinctiveness of European management scholarship
- The importance of context in International Business
- The ins and outs of experimental research in IB and Management
- 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 :-)
- Be proactive, resilient & realistic!
- Don't write mass emails (1): distributing your work
- Don't write mass emails (2): asking for help
- Fairly or very? A tiny word that makes the world of difference
- How to address other academics by email?
- How to address your lecturer?
- How to build strong research connections?
- How to build your research leadership "brand"?
- How to digitally market yourself: a beginner's guide for students & academics
- How to enjoy a large conference
- How to keep your Google Scholar Profile clean?
- 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
- Social media - caring in a shared-world (1): Self & others
- Social media - caring in a shared-world (2): Authentic Identity
- Social media - caring in a shared world (3): Online identity reconstruction
- Submit to only one journal at a time
- Thank You: The most underused words in academia?
- Using LinkedIn recommendations to support others
- 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
- Changing usage of Publish or Perish over the years: where, why, when, what & who?
- 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!
- Just out: New guide to the Publish or Perish software!
- Looking for multilingual PoP support resources?
- 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 for meta-analyses
- 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?
Series introducing Publish or Perish version 8
- PoP 8 new features (1): New interface
- PoP 8 new features (2): New data-source PubMed
- PoP 8 new features (3): New metric hA index
- PoP 8 new features (4): Search for free full text version
- PoP 8 new features (5): Download and export of abstracts
- PoP 8 new features (6): Improved search reports - basic or extended
- PoP 8 new features (7): Google Scholar - related works
- PoP 8 new features (8): Google Scholar - DOI extraction
- PoP 8 new features (9): Google Scholar - retrieval of citing works
- PoP 8 new features (10): Google Scholar - limitation of the number of search results
- PoP 8 new features (11): Google Scholar - include/exclude stray citations and patents
- PoP 8 new features (12): Facilitate repeated searching
- PoP 8 new features (13): Command line tools
- PoP 8 new features (14): Transparency & replicability
- PoP 8 new features (15): Training resources
Series on little-known use cases of Publish or Perish
- Help!!! Meeting an important visitor? Only have 10 minutes? [June 2025]
- Using Publish or Perish as Research Dean or Research Manager [May 2025]
- What has a university published in a (set of) journal(s) [April 2025]
- Conducting bibliometric research on specific research topics [March 2025]
- Co-authorship patterns across disciplines over time [February 2025]
- Co-authorship patterns across countries and time [January 2025]
- How much is [author x] cited in [journal y]? [November 2024]
- How to figure out "citation connections"? [October 2024]
- Did a job applicant publish without their supervisor? [June 2024]
- Have two academics ever published together? [April 2024]
- Longitudinal analysis of an author's citation metrics [February 2024]
- Who creates Google Scholar Profiles? [January 2024]
- What about the Christmas turkey? [December 2023]
- The history of Science [November 2023]
- Historical development of a discipline [October 2023]
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.
- Academic promotion tips (1) - Understand the process
- Academic promotion tips (2) - Treat your application as a journal submission
- Academic promotion tips (3) - Evidence your impact in Research & Engagement
- Academic promotion tips (4) - Evidence your impact in Teaching & Learning
- Academic promotion tips (5) - Evidence your impact in Leadership & Service
- Academic promotion tips (6) - Craft your career narrative
- Be proactive, resilient & realistic!
- Celebrating CYGNA: Supporting women in academia
- Climbing up the academic career ladder
- CV of failures
- Finding a Unicorn? Research funding in Business & Management research
- How to create a successful academic career: AIB - Ask, Invest & Believe
- How to create a sustainable academic career
- How to find your next research project?
- How to get promoted in academia?
- 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
- On the loneliness of teaching
- 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
- Sabbatical at Middlesex University London: a story of swans and unicorns
- Social Media in Academia (1): Introduction [8-part series]
- Take care of the little ants
- Talk about Teaching with Pride
- The Dean's disease: the Darker Side of Power
- The Ethical Professor
- This little girl: message to my younger self
- 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
- Writing promotion applications (1): Why is promotion so important for academics?
- Writing promotion applications (2): Start early
- Writing promotion applications (3): Focus on the why & how, not the what
- Writing promotion applications (4): Focus on impact
- Writing promotion applications (5): Write for the reader
- Writing promotion applications (6): What if you are rejected?
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
- Chairing a CYGNA meeting
- Co-creating academic well-being
- CYGNA @50 and Christmas celebration 2022
- CYGNA's 5-year anniversary: Middlesex writing boot-camp
- CYGNA: 10 year anniversary 2014-2024
- CYGNA: Past, present, and future
- End of 2024 celebration - ABC of research careers, Christmas carols and more...
- Female academics: Wives of the organization?
- Female leadership in Higher Education
- Gender & Migration
- General assembly - co-creating our CYGNA future through academic storytelling
- How to hold on to your sanity in academia
- How do I keep my job (in academia) in uncertain times?
- How to manage individual research performance
- It is sooo unfair: Internal versus External promotion
- Kind and inclusive networking
- Life-long learning in academia
- Necessary Condition Analysis: What, Why and How?
- Negotiation workshop
- No room at the top?
- One size doesn't fit all - Diversity of academic career paths
- Our 4th Christmas meeting - failure & fun
- Passion and Purpose: Navigating the Meaning of Academic Careers
- Positionality, team roles, and academic activism
- Publishing in Management, Psychology and International Business
- REF and Christmas during a pandemic
- Resistance to gender equality in academia
- Secondary data sources and research portfolios
- Secret Santa at the 2nd pandemic Christmas
- Social network analysis and managing large research teams
- Supervising and being supervised
- The Power of neurodiversity
- The WHYs and HOWs of coaching
- The wonderful world of book publishing
- Thriving in Research and Coping with Uncertainties
- Understand your co-author(s) and yourself with MBTI
- WAIB Panel: Academic career strategies for women in the UK
- We need a different kind of superhero: gender diversity in academia
- Why are there so few female Economics professors?
- Wives of the organization - 30 years on...
- Women academics in Australia and France
- Women management scholars leading REF impact case studies
- Work and Family Life of Academics
- Work intensification, well-being and career advancement
- Working effectively with support staff in academia
- Working in a Horizon-2020 project
- Writing a literature review paper: whether, what, and when?
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
- Beyond ethnocentrism: why do MNCs send their nationals to subsdiaries?
- Beyond expatriation: How inpatriation supports subsidiary growth and performance
- Four seasons in one day? On the fluidity of identity in an era of global mobility
- Global Mobility and Knowledge Transfer - an AIB webinar
- How inpatriation supports subsidiary growth and performance
- Intercultural Management in Practice: Expatriate identity
- New research monograph: Managing expatriates in China
- No room at the top?
- Not all international assignments are created equal
- Of bears, bumble-bees and spiders & who's in charge?
- Of Ostriches, Frogs, Birds and Lizards
- The bridging role of expatriates and inpatriates
- The double-edged sword of ethnic similarity for expatriates
- Turning ethnic similarity traps into social advantages
- Understanding the academic knowledge creation process: How to learn better?
- Why is learning the host country language important for expatriates?
HQ-subsidiary relationships
- Country of origin matters for multinationals too
- Cultures & Institutions: country-of-origin effects in MNC “ethnocentric” staffing practices
- EDI in MNCs: the case of linguistic diversity
- Hablas vielleicht un peu la mia language?
- How inpatriation supports subsidiary growth and performance
- Language barriers in multinational companies
- Managing (linguistic) diversity in MNCs
- MNC entry mode: it is not just about choice!
- One size doesn't fit all: MNC knowledge sourcing in Bulgaria
- Subsidiaries down-under: victims of their geographical isolation?
- Testing key IB typologies: Bartlett & Ghoshal and Gupta & Govindarajan
- The golden triangle: standardization, localization or dominance?
- The many benefits of a shared language in multinationals
- Transfer of HR practices in multinational companies
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
- Ambidexterity in MNC knowledge sourcing in emerging economies: a microfoundational perspective
- 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
- Performance in the workplace: what’s dance got to do with it?
- 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
- Women and international careers - what are the bottlenecks?
Conference and seminar reports
- AIB 2020 Online - my first virtual conference
- AIB Copenhagen: JIBS silver medal and AIB Fellowship
- Alice Eagly: Gender stereotypes have changed but the changes are surprising
- AoM 2020 online - my second virtual conference
- Benchmarking research performance
- Bibliometrics in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- 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
- EURAM Meet the editors panel
- Experimental research and Nvivo
- Experimental research in IB: Presenting at CERIB Kingston
- GEM&L: Translation in International Business & Management
- Global Supply Chain Responsibility: Traceability and the resource orchestration perspective
- Language & HRD: Keynote at Taipei AHRD conference
- LIS-Bibliometrics 10th anniversary event: The Future of Research Evaluation
- Measuring the impact of academic research: Best practices and open questions
- My first European Academy of Management conference
- Publish or Perish: Realising Google Scholar's potential to democratise citation analysis
- Publishing in Management Education Journals
- Rocket Science? Networking and External Engagement for Academic Success
- STI conference Leiden: metrics vs peer review
- Strategies for Publishing Pedagogical Research
- Untwisting tongues: Language research in International Management
- WAIB Panel: Academic career strategies for women in the UK
- Why metrics can (and should?) be used in the Social Sciences
- Work and Family Life of Academics
- You can’t be known if you don’t interact!
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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.