Publish or Perish: Home

Publish or Perish (PoP) is a softwareprogram that:

• is freely available to anyone with an Internet connection.
• uses 8 data sources: Google Scholar, Google Profile, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, Scopus, PubMed. Web of Science  and OpenAlex data
• finds not only citations to articles, but also to the following publication types: books, book chapters, newspaper articles, patents, preprints, proceedings, reports and theses.
• you can use to do a literature review
• creates your citation record in minimal time
• can assist for selection of a journal to submit a manuscript.
• is doing bibliometric research on both authors and journals.

Be aware: if you do too many searches in one session, the CAPTCHA screen will appear. PoP thinks you're a robot.

Learn how to use Publish or Perish

Who?

This libguide is meant for scholars who want to use Publish or Perish to collect literature references and calculate all kinds of metrics.

Why?

For metric numbers (H-index, Impactfactor) you have access to Web of Science with largely only journal articles. With Publish or Perish you get access to 7 other databases with various metrics (included the H-index)  and other publication types like books, chapters, conferences proceedings and theses.

Download the program here: https://www.harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish

Choose Download for Windows,  MacOS or GNU/Linux. Scroll down and click Publish or Perish installer for Windows

You can install the program on your computer without administrator rights. Then go to Start/All programs and search for  Publish or Perish 8 and click the program.

Publish or Perish version 8 differs significantly from version 4 and 5. In this LibGuide we explain version 8, but you can also find information and manuals about version 4 and 5.

There is a FAQ available: https://harzing.com/pophelp/faq.htm

Simply drop by the Library of Science helpdesk for a personal instruction.