1. Publish or Perish Marcie Jacklin Liaison Librarian – James A. Gibson Library Doug Suarez Liaison Librarian – James A. Gibson Library Silvia Vong E-learning Librarian – James A. Gibson Library

2. What is your area of study?

3. What do you use to measure journal or article impact?

4. What is Publish or Perish (PoP)? A free software program Measures number of cites and provides citation metrics via Google Scholar Provides statistics on: Total number of citations and papers Average number of citations per paper, author, Number of papers by an author Selected citation metrics

5. What is Google Scholar? Indexes scholarly literature from major publishers (both free and subscription sources) Journal and conference papers, theses and dissertations, academic books, pre-prints, abstracts, technical reports Indexes materials based on websites from publishers

6. How do I search PoP?

9. Save as CSV

15. Save as RIS

19. WoS vs. PoP

20. Advantages Free  Google Scholar (GS) has a broad range of data sources so it covers sources not covered in Web of Science (WoS) including books, conferences, non-US, etc. Many academics show a substantially higher number of (unique) citations in GS that in W0S

21. Disadvantages GS still misses some cited information GS includes some non-scholarly citations WoS might be better for certain subjects e.g. natural sciences GS doesn’t perform as well for older (pre 1990) publications For both GS and WoS, citations are subject to many forms of error (typos, parsing, etc.) Not clear which sources are covered by GS (for e.g. Elsevier may not be covered) GS may miss citations in foreign language publications or in books or book chapters (try google books) etc. GS updated every 2nd or 3rd month; WoS is updated frequently Diacritics or apostrophes or hyphenated names

22. Citation Metrics h-index Cumulative impact based on amount of citations g-index h-index, more weight to highly cited articles Contemporary h-index (hc-index) Less weight to older articles Individual h-index (hI-index, hI-norm, hm-index) h-index, accounts for co-authorship Age-weighed citation rate (AWCR, AWCRpA, AW-index) Measures number of citations to entire body of work and adjusts measurement for age of each paper

23. Thank you for your time! Marcie Jacklinmjacklin@brocku.ca Doug Suarezdsuarez@brocku.ca Silvia Vongsvong@brocku.ca Visit: http://bit.ly/gbn1pQ for more information.