What's new

Below is an overview of the new features and improvements that have been made to Publish or Perish. Please take a moment to familiarise yourself with the new features.

2.5 - 27 January-16 February 2008

• Query parameters are now UTF-8 encoded to cover double-byte characters sets
• Current date is shown in status bar to help tech support

2.4 - 3 December 2007

• Changed internal memory allocation strategy to reduce memory load
• Made application startup faster
• Leading and trailing spaces are now automatically stripped from query parameters
• New online paper: Google Scholar: The democratization of citation analysis?
• New online paper: A Google Scholar H-index for Journals

2.3 - 3 September 2007

• Added maximum results warning
• Added Lookup Direct button to the various query pages
• Results panel now remembers item selections between sessions

2.2 - 12 August 2007

• BibTeX exports now escape any '&' characters to prevent misinterpretation as control codes
• Added new Per year column to results list
• Added new Rank column to results list
• Additional explanations about the Accuracy of the results
• Additional background information in various help topics

2.1 - 3-9 July 2007

• Added various export data commands
• Added check/uncheck selection commands to results pane
• [2746,2747] Corrections in BibTeX export format

2.0 - 5-26 April 2007

• Redesigned user interface
• Added multi-query center
• Improved software update checks
• Corrected typo in progress dialog box
• Changed colour scheme
• [2673] Minor corrections and improvements
• [2673] Fixed a bug in the multi-query tree list control that caused the program to hang after more than 64 entries

1.9 - 22-28 March 2007

• Added age-weighted citation rate and AW-index
• Changed summary layout to cater for new metrics

1.8 - 20 March 2007

• Added median and mode statistics for citations per article
• Increased cache period from 1 to 7 days to reduce Google Scholar traffic

1.7 - 4-9 March 2007

• Adapted to changes in Google Scholar output format
• Added semi-automatic software update checks
• Added Reflections on norms for the h-index and related indices
• Added online version of the help file
• Added Linux/Wine compatibility instructions

1.6 - 14 February 2007

• Changed the summary format for greater clarity
• Added support for proxy servers

1.5 - 18 January 2007

• Adapted to changes in Google Scholar output format
• Added two variations of the individual h-index
• Added Reflections on the h-index and Reflections on Google Scholar
• Minor usability improvements

1.4 - 9 December 2006

• Added contemporary h-index and additional parameters for other metrics
• Improved CSV formatting and information
• Improved HTML character entity parsing
• Added automatic caching of queries and removed raw results
• Fixed a bug that prevented running on Windows 98

1.3 - 20 November 2006

• Added separate Author impact, Journal impact, and General search tabs
• Added year of publication as additional search criterion
• Added web browser link for citing works
• Renamed several fields for clarity and consistency

1.2 - 26 October 2006

• Addition of keyword restrictions
• Addition of Year and Publisher columns
• New help topic about the accuracy of the results
• Various minor other improvements

1.1 - 22 October 2006

• Addition of a Cancel button
• Addition of Unselect 0 Cites button
• Addition of menu bar with more commands, including Open/Save Raw Results
• Various minor other improvements

1.0 - 18 October 2006

• Initial version