Reviews the book; The publish or perish book: Your guide to effective and responsible citation analysis by Anne-Wil Harzing (2010-2011). 7In the 21st century, citation analysis has become the currency for academic success. In the competition for academic accolades, individuals and institutions often measure and rank themselves by numbers derived from citation analysis. This race to get a high number began innocently enough with the development by Garfield of citation indexes in the 1950s and 1960s and the description of a citation calculation that was termed impact factor, which could be used to rank journals based on the number of times works in a particular journal were cited by other researchers. This text is an important guide to the free 'Publish or Perish' software that allows academicians to analyze the widely accessible Google Scholar data. Anne-Wil Harzing introduced a software program titled 'Publish or Perish' to provide a means of analyzing the Google Scholar information. She developed this program to assist in her own quest to achieve promotion to the rank of professor and then made the software program freely available on her Web site (http://www.harzing.com/) to others facing similar quests. This text is an important guide to the free 'Publish or Perish' software that allows academicians to analyze the widely accessible Google Scholar data. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
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Brumback, R. A. (2012). Book Review: The Publish or Perish Book: Your Guide to Effective and Responsible Citation Analysis. Journal of Evidence-Based Complementary & Alternative Medicine, 17(2), 138–139. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156587212438103
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