Publish or Perish

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Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses various publicly available data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and calculates a series of citation metrics. The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a text file (for future reference or further analysis).

A sample search in Publish Or Perish to extract results and research metrics with Google Scholar

The development of the Publish or Perish software is a volunteering effort that has been ongoing since 2006. Publish or Perish was designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact and tenure and promotion to its best advantage, even if you have very few citations. You can also use it to decide which journals to submit to, to prepare for a job interview, to do a literature review, to do bibliometric research, to write laudatios or obituaries, or to do some homework before meeting your academic hero. Publish or Perish is a real Swiss army knife.

Citation metrics extracted from Publish or Perish

The supported data sources are:

• Crossref
• Google Scholar
• Google Scholar Profile
• Microsoft Academic
• PubMed
• Scopus
• Semantic Scholar
• Web of Science
• External data import

Data sources

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The Publish or Perish software is available as Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS applications; the Windows version can also be installed and used on GNU/Linux computers with the aid of a suitable emulator such as CrossOver Linux or Wine.

Publish or Perish on Microsoft Windows

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Publish or Perish on macOS

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Publish or Perish on GNU/Linux

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