Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way...
...it uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations...
Times Higher Education (June 2011) where LSE Professor Patrick Dunleavy favours it over peer review for the British Research Assessment.
is the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 545 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
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