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Publish or Perish Platforms

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Publish or Perish Overview

Publish or Perish (PoP) uses Scopus, Crossref, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, and Web of Science queries to obtain citation information, which is then analysed and converted to a variety of metrics (see Appendix). The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a variety of output formats (for future reference or further analysis).

Metrics:
- Total number of papers and total number of citations
- Average citations per paper, citations per author, papers per author, and citations per year
- Hirsch's h-index and related parameters
- Egghe's g-index
- The contemporary h-index
- Three variations of individual h-indices
- The average annual increase in the individual h-index
- The age-weighted citation rate
- An analysis of the number of authors per paper.

Publish or Perish Features

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