Publish or Perish in the news

If you are using Publish or Perish in one of your research articles, please refer to it in the following way:
Harzing, A.W. (year) Publish or Perish, version (version number), available at www.harzing.com/pop.htm

News coverage for Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish has received very frequent news coverage. A section of recent publications:

Blogs discussing Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish has been featured on literally hundreds of blogs and personal websites in dozens of different languages. A small selection of the most interesting blogs:

  • An Icelandic blogger praising (in English) the ease of use of Publish or Perish. "There is really no excuse for not using such a resource!"
  • Thumbs-up by a US blogger: " This is one of the coolest search tools I've seen, ever".
  • Another US based blogger, calling Publish or Perish "a great resource, and probably my single most-used research tool over the last year".
  • A German blog commending PoP for being "quick to install, swift to use and making bibliometrics more understandable" [translated from German].

Libraries recommending Publish or Perish

Many libraries now recommend Publish or Perish as an alternative to ISI or Scopus. A small selection:

User feedback for Publish or Perish

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.

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.

I think a lot of people have been wanting “someone” to do this for a while now. You’re that someone – kudos and thanks to you!

Many thanks for your generosity and congratulations for your work. If we didn't have your program It would be very complicated to conduct our research, because we are running this project with a shoe-string budget.

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.

We are currently revising the tenure and promotion guidelines in the College of Business and Economics, and the h-index and g-index numbers provided by Publish or Perish will be part of those guidelines. 

Your programme is very useful to me in my professional activity and it would be a pity to lose it. It allows a quick organization of the data presented by Google Scholar with the more relevant statistics, and this is vital today for a scientist.

This is quite amazing. You posted your message three days ago. Since then, I have received links to the software six times from my friends from all around the world who saw your message and wanted to share it with me. Obviously, Publish or Perish is getting lots of attention and obviously people like it very much.

PoP is a comprehensive tool that identifies research impact and that points to the positioning of the journals where research appears. I can, for example, say that my paper in journal ABC is the Nth highest ranked of all papers in that journal since a specific date. This type of information is invaluable. It not only shows my citation count but my count relative to others who publish in the same journals.

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.

I recently had to compile an online bibliography of work in [...] for Oxford University Press.  POP was incredibly helpful for figuring out what the most cited works and scholars were in the various sub-areas I included. It would certainly have been a less useful contribution to the OUP series without POP.

What a FANTASTIC tool. Thanks for sharing it. I forwarded your msg to my Dean suggesting that your program be used to gather data to be used for promotion decisions (to full professor). This would not be the only indicator of impact/quality, but certainly an important one.

As a former chair of the International Mathematical Union's Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) I have found it necessary to be well informed about all matters relating to citation measurement and the use of related metrics. In this setting, Publish or Perish has been avery fine tool to assist with many of the delicate and consequential issues regarding the uses and abuses of citation data.

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.

As a senior academic in a non-traditional field, I've recommended your web site to a number of my colleagues. I'm always looking for non-ISI options to suggest to junior faculty looking to make the case for tenure. Your efforts are appreciated!

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.

Articles using Publish or Perish

If you are using Publish or Perish in one of your research articles, please refer to it in the following way:
Harzing, A.W. (year) Publish or Perish, version (version number), available at www.harzing.com/pop.htm

Dozens of academics have used Publish or Perish to conduct analyses for their academic papers. A small selection can be found here:

Anne-Wil's own papers using Publish or Perish

I have used Publish or Perish in a number of published journal articles that focus on impact analysis and a comparison of Google Scholar and ISI. I have also made several white papers on these topics available on my website.

Journal articles

  • Harzing, A.W.K.; Wal, R. van der (2009) A Google Scholar H-Index for Journals: An Alternative Metric to Measure Journal Impact in Economics & Business?, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp 41-46. Available online...
  • Harzing, A.W.K.; Wal, R. van der (2008) Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis?, Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 62-71. Available online...
  • Harzing, A.W.K. (2008) On becoming a high impact journal in International Business and Management, European Journal of International Management, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 115-118. Available online...

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