Explains the use of Publish or Perish and its metrics Anne-Wil Harzing - Sat 6 Feb 2016 16:10 (updated Fri 25 Aug 2023 16:24) Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses a variety of data sources to obtain the raw citations, then analyzes these and presents a range of citation metrics, including the number of papers, total citations and the h-ind