Welcome to Harzing.com

This website includes Anne-Wil's resumé, research programs, and publications, including her academic career guides and white papers. It also hosts the CYGNA Women in Academia pages, the Journal Quality List, and the Publish or Perish software for citation analysis.

The Harzing.com blog features posts on academic publishing, creating research impact, doing (international) research, academic etiquette, the Publish or Perish software, academic careers, gender in academia, and Positive Academia. If you are an early career academic, your best starting point is the Working in academia page.

Legal notice: If you wish to link to this website, feel free to do so. Please do not copy any content except for your own personal use. Unless otherwise noted, this website and its contents are © Anne-Wil Harzing 1997-2026.

Featured pages and blog posts

My academic career: a story in four seasons, eight failures, and four morals

Tells the story of the eight most significant failures in my academic career and outlines how every single one of them had unexpected upsides

The similarities between academics and artists

Presents four analogies between academics and artists; links to a white paper on the art of academic writing that provides five perspectives: writing as sculpting, writing as drawing, writing as painting, writing as music, and writing as acting

You finally made it to full professor, now what?

Crafting your academic identity and sustaining it in retirement

Your first publication - A roller-coaster ride with lots of ups and downs

Takes you - step by step - through the emotional journey of getting your first publication published, and explains why rejections are often the norm not the exception

Finding the pearls in your citation record

Shows you how to use the Publish or Perish software to present your academic citation record to its best advantage: find the pearls in your record, polish them and string them into a beautiful necklace that presents your citation story effectively

Book series: Crafting your career in academia

My career guides for various aspects of your academic career: journal publishing, research diffusion through social media, research impact, and promotion applications

Working in academia

Container page of all my website resources related to working in academia: books, blogposts, videos, software and more

Tripped over a tree root? Fell off your bike? Accident in the gym?

Short intro to my white paper featuring my experiences in the first year of my recovery process from a broken wrist

Value for money in the UK REF

Argues that post-92 Business Schools pull above their weight in many elements of the REF, that QR funding should be distributed more equally, and that we should have a ring-fenced budget to promote sector-wide learning

On failures in academia: My PhD journey

Tells the story of my PhD dissertation nearly 30 years after it was all but failed