publish or perish (pop)
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MARCIE JACKLINLIAISON LIBRARIAN – JAMES A. GIBSON LIBRARY
DOUG SUAREZLIAISON LIBRARIAN – JAMES A. GIBSON LIBRARY
SILVIA VONGE-LEARNING LIBRARIAN – JAMES A. GIBSON
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Publish or Perish
What is your area of study?
What do you use to measure journal or article impact?
What is Publish or Perish (PoP)?
A free software programMeasures number of cites and provides
citation metrics via Google ScholarProvides statistics on:
Total number of citations and papers Average number of citations per paper, author, Number of papers by an author Selected citation metrics
What is Google Scholar?
Indexes scholarly literature from major publishers (both free and subscription sources)
Journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports
Indexes materials based on websites from publishers
How do I search PoP?
Save as CSV
Save as RIS
WoS vs. PoP
Advantages
Free Google Scholar (GS) has a broad range of
data sources so it covers sources not covered in Web of Science (WoS) including books, conferences, non-US, etc.
Many academics show a substantially higher number of (unique) citations in GS that in W0S
Disadvantages
GS still misses some cited informationGS includes some non-scholarly citationsWoS might be better for certain subjects e.g. natural sciencesGS doesn’t perform as well for older (pre 1990) publicationsFor both GS and WoS, citations are subject to many forms of
error (typos, parsing, etc.)Not clear which sources are covered by GS (for e.g. Elsevier
may not be covered)GS may miss citations in foreign language publications or in
books or book chapters (try google books) etc.GS updated every 2nd or 3rd month; WoS is updated frequentlyDiacritics or apostrophes or hyphenated names
Citation Metrics
h-index Cumulative impact based on amount of citations
g-index h-index, more weight to highly cited articles
Contemporary h-index (hc-index) Less weight to older articles
Individual h-index (hI-index, hI-norm, hm-index) h-index, accounts for co-authorship
Age-weighed citation rate (AWCR, AWCRpA, AW-index) Measures number of citations to entire body of work and
adjusts measurement for age of each paper
Thank you for your time!
Marcie [email protected]
Doug [email protected]
Silvia [email protected]
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