Publish or Perish

FYI: Found today but not tested:


Publish or Perish - A citation analysis software program, designed to help individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage.



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.