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CBE - Applied Information Systems Guide: Research Management Tools

Welcome to the Department of Applied Information Systems! This Guide will introduce you to valuable Library Information sources related to the Department.

Research Management Tools

Research Management tools is the tools use to manage research. There are Research management software, these include RefWork, Mendeley, Zetero, Endnote, etc.

Publish or Perish

Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyses academic citations. It uses Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search to obtain the raw citations, then analyses these and presents the following 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.

The results are available on-screen and can also be copied to the Windows clipboard (for pasting into other applications) or saved to a variety of output formats (for future reference or further analysis). Publish or Perish includes a detailed help file with search tips and additional information about the citation metrics. Click Here to learn more about it: 

Measuring Research impact: Citations Analysis Database