Using Publish or Perish

To use Publish or Perish (PoP), you need a working Internet connection. PoP uses Google Scholar queries to obtain citation information, which is then analyzed and converted to a number of statistics. The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a text file (for future reference or further analysis).

• For an explanation of the statistics, see the introduction About Publish or Perish.
• See Accuracy of the results for circumstances that make the citations analysis less accurate.
• See More about citation analysis for an in-depth discussion of the validity, assumptions, and limitations of the underlying sources and methods used by Publish or Perish.

Please refer to the following topics for details about the various search types:

• Author impact - to perform a quick analysis of the impact of an author's publications;
• Journal impact - to perform a quick analysis of the impact of a journal's publications;
• General search - to perform a fully comprehensive Google Scholar search with citation analysis.