The Publish or Perish Book, part 1: A guide to the software

The Publish or Perish book is a companion to the Publish or Perish software program, which retrieves and analyzes academic citations.

Part 1 of the book shows you how to get the best out of the program through a detailed discussion of author searches, journal searches, general searches and the multi-query center.

Contents

The first chapter provides a brief introduction to citation analysis as well as an overview of the most popular data sources and metrics in use. An introduction to the main features of the software is provided in Chapter 2.

Chapters 3 and 4 subsequently provide detailed instructions on how to conduct effective Author and Journal Queries.

Chapter 5 is devoted to the broader applications of the General Citation search that can be used to find particular papers, conduct advanced author and journal queries, compare institutional performance and conduct a literature review.

Finally, Chapter 6 discusses how the Multi-query Center can be used to effectively store and manage queries for future use.

At the end of the book I provide a set of appendices that include the license agreement for Publish or Perish, a command reference, the pop-menu for the results page, export formats, a complete message reference and the pop-up menu for the multi-query center list view.