From the website:

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:

• 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
• Average number of citations per year
• Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
• Egghe's g-index
• The contemporary h-index
• The age-weighted citation rate
• Two variations of individual h-indices
• An analysis of the number of authors per paper.

The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a variety of output formats (for future reference or further analysis). Publish or Perish includes a detailed help file with search tips and additional information about the citation metrics. Anne-Wil Harzing welcomes user feedback to help her improve the program.

 

The University of Michigan has received $329,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop standardized survey instruments so that North American college and university archives can avoid duplication of effort and share the same survey and data collection tools. Leading archivists met in North Carolina in June, 2004 and reached an agreement that creation of such tools were an essential part of an effort to make the management of archives more data-driven.

The planned instruments will standardize data-collection procedures and definitions, and allow consolidation and analysis of data across institutions. Individual archives will be able to benchmark against their peers, which will help them improve their services, and prove their value to their parent institutions. The project benefits from recent strides in research on metrics development and testing in the research library and digital collection fields.ned instruments will standardize data-collection procedures and definitions, and allow consolidation and analysis of data across institutions. Individual archives will be able to benchmark against their peers, which will help them improve their services, and prove their value to their parent institutions. The project benefits from recent strides in research on metrics development and testing in the research library and digital collection fields.

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