RILAS Masterguide

"Harzing's Publish or Perish looks up scholarly citations and calculates a number of citation and impact metrics."

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses various publicly available data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and calculates a series of citation metrics. 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).

Publish or Perish was designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact and tenure and promotion to its best advantage, even if you have very few citations.

Quoted from:

Adams, D. (2016, December 20). About publish or perish. Retrieved from https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish/manual/about

Check system requirements first.

Download Publish or Perish

1. Finding the same data that you can find by searching Google Scholar. If Google Scholar data contains inaccuracies, so does the data in Publish or Perish. However, due to the compact display it often becomes much easier to locate inaccurate data.
2. Using the same searching features allowed when using Google Scholar searches
3. With the same up to 1000 document display limit that you will encounter in Google Scholar
4. Reading the data in a tabular way, and getting access to sorting and grouping features of any application with tabular display features
5. Exporting of raw data and statistically analysed data much more seamlessly and with less effort

Data sources for Publish or Perish

Start by selecting one of the available data sources - Google Scholar

Proceed by completing the search box in the same way as for an 'advanced Google Scholar' search box.

1. Author names
   • Use quote marks around initials and lastname/surname to reduce the number of 'garbage' items. If you do not use the quote marks Google Scholar matches the name and initials anywhere in the list of authors.
   • "C Smith" will also match "CM Smith", "CT Smith", "CRM Smith" - use multiple initials wherever practically possible
   • You can also search for "CM Smith" OR "Carol Smith"
   • Try first using "Carol Smith"
2. Years (restricting by)
   • Keep in mind that there are often errors in the citation data or in the parsing of the Google Scholar data. This then remove some relevant works from the result list
3. Title words
   • This is the same as using 'Intitle' within the usual Google Search engine
4. All of the words
   • this includes each of the words in the results returned
5. Any of the words
   • This function implies an OR between each word
6. None of the words
   • Use this to eliminate any unwanted results or subject areas that you are capturing with previous searches
7. The phrase
   • Mostly returns superior results
8. Publication/Journal
   • When including this in the search helps to target the items required