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# Publish or perish
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/publish-or-perish/
- Published: 2007-08-28T13:02:44.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:32:11.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Research ∕ Learning, Systems

*Publish or perish* is interesting looking:

> Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents the following statistics: …. \[[Publish or perish](https://www.harzing.com/resources.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net#/pop.htm)\]

Among the statistics it generates are: Total number of papers; Total number of citations; Average number of citations per paper; Average number of citations per author; Average number of papers per author; Hirsch’s h-index and related indexes.  
One interesting feature is that a search on a journal title returns a list of papers ranked by citation.  
Now, of course, this is as good as the data in Google Scholar. I expect we will see some analysis comparing results here with comparable results from ISI.  
Via [Greg Mankiw](https://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2007/08/publish-or-perish.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net).