Publish or Perish on Apple Mac OS X

How to cite the Publish or Perish software

If you are using the Publish or Perish software in one of your research articles or otherwise want to refer to it, please use the following format:

Harzing, A.W. (2007) Publish or Perish, available from http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

A 15-minute audio & slide presentation on citation analysis and Publish or Perish can be found on slideshare.

An excellent guide to Publish or Perish was produced by Stephanie Ow, librarian at the National Institute of Education Singapore. It is based on the PoP helpfile and the Publish or Perish Book, but in addition has lots of annotated screenshots to illustrate author and journals searches, as well as copying and exporting of results.

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License agreement

Publish or Perish is provided courtesy of Harzing.com. It is free for personal non-profit use; please refer to the End User License Agreement for the full licensing terms and conditions.

Using Publish or Perish on Apple Mac OS X

Publish or Perish is Microsoft Windows-based software. However, you can install and run the Publish or Perish software on an Intel-based Apple Mac OS X system with the aid of one of the following:

Wine to provide Windows-like environment on Apple Mac OS X; or
CrossOver Mac, a commercially-supported version of Wine; or
A virtual machine with a real Microsoft Windows system inside.

The Wine approach is typically cheaper (or even free) and is compatible enough with Microsoft Windows to run Publish or Perish without major problems. On the other hand, the virtual machine approach provides an actual Microsoft Windows system, so everything works exactly as it would on a regular Windows system.

Tip: If you're technically savvy, then have a look at the Wine Mac OS X wiki for more information about running Wine on Apple Mac OS X. Otherwise, we recommend that you use one of the solutions listed below.

Note: There are also various Windows emulators for PowerPC-based Apple Mac systems, but we have not tested those due to a lack of hardware. If you want to share your experiences with these systems, then please send a message to pop@harzing.com.

Product	Description	Windows required?	Cost
CrossOver Mac	A commercially supported Mac OS X port of Wine. This is a self-contained solution; no additional software (apart from Publish or Perish itself) is required. Publish or Perish using CrossOver 10.x Mac Publish or Perish using CrossOver 9.x Mac	No; uses Wine to provide Windows-like environment	From US$39.95
Darwine	A free (as in gratis and GPL-licensed) Mac OS X port of Wine that seems no longer active. See also the Mac OS X Wine wiki. We have not tested this emulator and cannot comment on its suitability for Publish or Perish.	No; uses Wine to provide Windows-like environment	Free
MacPorts Wine	A free (as in gratis and GPL-licensed) port of Wine for Mac OS X. This is a self-contained solution; no additional software (apart from Publish or Perish itself) is required. See Publish or Perish using MacPorts Wine	No; uses Wine to provide Windows-like environment	Free
Parallels Desktop for Mac	A commercial virtual machine environment for use on Mac OS X. This approach requires that you purchase and install a separate copy of Microsoft Windows to run inside the Parallels Desktop virtual machine. See Publish or Perish on Windows installation.	Yes	From US$80 + cost of Windows license
PlayOnMac	A free (as in gratis and GPL-licensed) Mac OS X port of Wine. This is a self-contained solution; no additional software (apart from Publish or Perish itself) is required. Requires Mac OS X 10.6. Quentin Pâris, the PlayOnMac creator, advises us that he has added Publish or Perish to the PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac repository, so users can install Publish or Perish with two clicks through the Install menu.	No; uses Wine to provide Windows-like environment	Free
VirtualBox	A free (as in gratis and GPL-licensed) virtual machine environment for use on Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and Windows. Although VirtualBox is free, you must still purchase and install a separate copy of Microsoft Windows to run as a guest inside the VirtualBox environment. See Publish or Perish on Windows installation.	Yes	Cost of Windows license
VMWare Fusion	A commercial virtual machine environment for use on Mac OS X. This approach requires that you purchase and install a separate copy of Microsoft Windows to run inside the VMWare Fusion virtual machine. See Publish or Perish on Windows installation.	Yes	From US$50 + cost of Windows license
WineBottler	A free (as in gratis and GPL-licensed) Wine-based Windows emulator for Mac OS X, currently in Beta. This is a self-contained solution; no additional software (apart from Publish or Perish itself) is required. We have not tested this environment and cannot comment on its suitability for Publish or Perish.	No; uses Wine to provide Windows-like environment	Free

Using MacPorts Wine to run Publish or Perish

According to information that we received courtesy of Frédéric Fondement, Publish or Perish works well with MacPorts port of Wine if you do the following.

Install MacPort (important: note that MacPorts requires Xcode and Quartz X11 support preinstalled on your Mac OS X system).
Open Terminal and install Wine by executing:
sudo port install wine
Download the Publish or Perish installer for Windows.
Still in Terminal install Publish or Perish with the command:
wine PoPSetup.exe
Once installation is ended, Publish or Perish can be run by issuing the following command from Terminal:
wine /Users/${USER}/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Harzing\'s\ Publish\ or\ Perish\ 3/Bin/PoP.exe &
To use Publish or Perish without Terminal, create and compile the following Apple script:
do shell script "/opt/local/bin/wine /Users/${USER}/.wine/drive_c/Program\\ Files/Harzing\\'s\\ Publish\\ or\\ Perish\\ 3/Bin/PoP.exe"

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User feedback for Publish or Perish

A small selection of the many thank-you messages and expressions of support that I have received over the last five years.

The more I work with GS the more I appreciate the gate those guys opened for us. PoP enhances GS and if I were working for Google, I would consider developing it further to become the equivalent of Google Earth.

As I am sure you realize, being able to demonstrate the influence of research by the Worldbank is enormously important to supporting and expanding that research. [...] I have found your software Publish or Perish to be the single most useful tool available for these purposes.

Thank you so much for providing us free usage of POP, it’s very useful and the output is exactly what I want from Google Scholar.

We have benefitted from the use of Harzing’s Publish or Perish software. We have been fans of your work for some time now and have used your tools to inform our own benchmarking here at Harvard Business School.

I am writing to thank you for offering the Publish or Perish software to the academic community at no charge, and for keeping this excellent product updated. Within our university, individual faculty members use Publish or Perish to track the impact of their work, and we find it indispensable.

I didn't know which papers were the most referenced for my own work, and when discussing with other researchers, in many cases they themselves don't know. Knowledge about these matters is helpful understanding the structure of the research and the social network that surrounds it.

Publish or Perish has become an essential tool for academics around the world. In my job as an editor of a major international journal, I often need to run a quick check on colleagues, for example, wish to be considered for Board membership. PoP is perfect for such purposes.

PoP has become an academic workhorse for both doing research as well as evaluating researchers and journals (I served as the chair of the "fellows selection committee" of my professional society, where it was an important tool). I also routinely use it to find important papers in an area, or the best people working on a topic (for referees).

This software is great. Thank you so much for making it available. We have to report citations each year in my department, and everyone uses ISI themselves. As you might imagine, people don't always use it correctly. Your software would provide an easy, standardized way to count everyone the same.

I have been conducting an analysis of highly cited tourism scholars using 'Publish or Perish’. The PorP programme is excellent, especially since our field of study is excluded from the Thompson ISI. Scholar.google.com and your programme provide the only valid method of assessing the contribution that individual scholars have made to the field.

It was a great pleasure to meet someone who has contributed so much, completely free of charge, to the development of the social sciences. Academic altruists are rare indeed, and your PoP programme is a huge advance.

A close colleague of mine told me an amusing anecdote last month about a social sciences meeting for upgrading Oxford University academics to professor, at which 17 department heads presented cases for members of their staff - all but one of whom used Harzing (PoP) statistics.