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
2.3 - 3 September 2007
2.2 - 12 August 2007
2.1 - 3-9 July 2007
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
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