What is Publish or Perish?
Harzing's Publish or Perish is downloadable software that uses Google Scholar data to calculate the following metrics:
- 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 G-Index
- The age-weighted citation rate
- Two variations of individual H-Indices
- An analysis of the number of authors per paper
