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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish is a Windows app that generates your h-index (amongst other metrics) for you, based on citation data from Google Scholar. No NSPNAS, yet, unfortunately.

Personally I think that the simple number that makes up an h-index is a little dry. Besides, people who've never heard of it before don't have a frame of reference. What's the scale? Does it go from low to high or the other way round?

More to the point, "I have an h-index of 30" won't impress the opposite sex. No, for that you need D&D references (hotties dig D&D). How about "I'm a level 30 biobarbarian?". Now we're talking. Behold my +1 Pipettes of Power. When you collect enough citations you level up. I'm a level 1 gnome, myself.

Go on, it'll look much better on your grant application.


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posted by Stew @ 10:47 AM

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At March 01, 2007 3:55 PM, Blogger Pedro Beltrão said...

I am surprised they manage to do this. I wrote a scrip to scrape data from Scholar and after some runs there was an automatic flag for my ip address that started putting up a catchpa. When I asked Scholar by email they gave the usual reply that right now they cannot provide access to the data. This is not as flexible as a script but potentially useful anyway. Thanks

 
At March 01, 2007 7:27 PM, Blogger Stew said...

I guess the requests are coming from the user's PC and they only call Google Scholar when the user clicks on 'search'. That's the kind of behaviour you'd see from people using the Google Scholar site proper, so it's all good.

 
At March 09, 2007 9:52 PM, Anonymous Anne-Wil Harzing said...

Publish or Perish on Linux

A native Linux version of Publish or Perish is in preparation. Until it is released, you can use the Windows version of Publish or Perish under the Wine compatibility layer.

For more information see: http://www.harzing.com/pop_linux.htm

 
At April 29, 2007 11:44 AM, Anonymous Anne-Wil Harzing said...

You may be interested to know that a Linux version is now available on:

http://www.harzing.com/pop.htm

I would appreciate to hear about your user experiences.

 

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