Publish or Perish on GNU/Linux

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You can install and use the Publish or Perish software on Intel-based GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems with the aid of the Wine compatibility layer.

We have verified that Publish or Perish operates correctly with the current version of Wine (1.1.42 as of this writing). Please use the instructions below to install Wine and Publish or Perish on your GNU/Linux or other supported system.

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.

About Wine

The Wine web site defines Wine as "Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X and Unix."

What this means is that Wine provides the programs and libraries that allow you to run many Windows applications (including Publish or Perish) unchanged on your GNU/Linux system and other supported Unix-like operating systems.

As far as the Windows applications are concerned, they are running in a Windows environment and most functions work as expected, including things like clipboard copy and paste (even between Windows and native GNU/Linux applications on the system).

Wine is Free Software, both in terms of cost (gratis) and in terms of freedom. Many GNU/Linux distributions include a version of Wine in their package repository. You can also download the latest Wine version from the Wine web site; see below for more information.

Supported GNU/Linux distros

Publish or Perish should be able to run with the aid of the Wine compatibility layer under most Linux distributions for which Wine is supported. We have tested Publish or Perish with Wine version 1.1.42 running on a Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.04 system with an Intel i386-class processor.

For a full list of out-of-the-box supported Linux distributions, see Wine Binary Downloads on the Wine web site. Please share your experiences with Publish or Perish on your Linux (or other) system by sending a brief report to pop@harzing.com and include such details as:

GNU/Linux or other system name and version
Wine version that you used
Type of CPU in your test system
Anything else that you think is relevant

Other Unix-like systems

Wine runs on many Unix-like systems, including FreeBSD and Solaris. Again, see Wine Binary Downloads on the Wine web site for the full list. If your favorite system isn't represented by a Wine binary package and you feel up to the challenge, you can also build and install Wine from source code.

Please share your experiences with Publish or Perish on your system by sending a brief report to pop@harzing.com; make sure that you include enough details to make your report useful to others.

How to install Wine

Many Linux distributions include a version of Wine and you might be able to install Wine with the standard system tools (such as the Synaptic or Red Hat package managers, yum, or whatever tool your distribution includes for the purpose). However, Wine is very much a work in progress and the Wine developers recommend that you use the latest version available from the Wine web site, rather than relying on the version that came with your GNU/Linux or other system distro.

To download the relevant binary package from the Wine web site:

Go to Wine Binary Downloads
Click on the link that represents your system distribution
Follow the instructions that you find there

Typically, the whole process shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes for the most common distributions.

If your favorite system isn't represented by a Wine binary package and you feel up to the challenge, you can also build and install Wine from source code. However, do not attempt this unless you know (vaguely) what Makefiles are and what gcc does. If those terms don't mean anything to you, then stick with the binary packages.

How to configure Wine

In most cases, the default configuration of Wine is fine. Don't fiddle with it unless you know what you're doing. If you absolutely, positively want to tinker with its settings, then open a console window and type winecfg. This opens a GUI interface to the Wine configuration settings. Whatever else you do, make sure that Publish or Perish sees Windows 2000, XP, or later behavior from Wine; do not change that to an older Windows version such as 95, 98, or Me.

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.

Installing Publish or Perish using Wine

Once you have Wine installed, you can install Publish or Perish using its normal Windows installer according to the following procedure.

1. Download the Publish or Perish software installer from the Harzing.com web site:

Publish or Perish installer for Windows (869 KB)

Version 4.0.18 - 20 April 2013 - What's new?

2. Open a File Browser window and go to the PoPSetup.exe file that you just downloaded. Right-click on the file and choose Properties from the popup menu.

3. In the PoPSetup.exe Properties window that appears, check the Allow executing file as program box:

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4. Click Close to dismiss the Properties window, then double-click on the PoPSetup.exe file to start the Publish or Perish installer. Follow the instructions on the screen to install Publish or Perish.

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5. Installation is now complete. You can start Publish or Perish through the Applications > Wine > Programs menu of your GNU/Linux desktop:

Known issues

The general operation of Publish or Perish under Wine is identical to the standard Windows usage. However, in our testing we have observed the following issues:

Google CAPTCHA support does not display CAPTCHA image: If a Google CAPTCHA solution is required, Publish or Perish will display the Verification required dialog box with all fields, but the CAPTCHA image is not displayed. This appears to be caused by a bug in the Wine implementation of the GDI+ Image class, in particular its handling of streamed JPEG images.

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News coverage for Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish is featured on hundreds of blogs and university library websites, as well as in the following newspapers and magazines:

The Italian newspaper Linkiesta (18 Nov 2011) used Publish or Perish to compare the academic credentials of ministers in the new Monti government with those in the old Berlusconi government.

Times Higher Education (June 2011) where LSE Professor Patrick Dunleavy favours it over peer review for the British Research Assessment.

Journal of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (April 2011): "Harzing’s book is a useful, thoughtfully written, and highly informative source on a particular implementation of citation analysis .."

The Australian's Higher Education supplement in April 2011

Scientometrics (April 2011): "Harzing has certainly created a tool which can be used to blast paths through the evaluative defenses surrounding the entrenched positions of academia."

Nature, the international weekly journal of science (Dec 2010): “The Publish or Perish Book is a useful resource for scientists, particularly in fields in which Google Scholar is a major source of citations.”

The Italian weekly magazine La Voce in December 2008.

The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in November 2008

The Italian weekly magazine Panorama in December 2008

Searcher, The Magazine for Database Professionals in May 2008

The Australian's Higher Education supplement in January 2008

The Association for Psychological Science Observer in January 2008

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.