Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations.

Via Greg Mankiw, Publish or Perish:

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.

About Chris F. Masse

Founder and President of Midas Oracle
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