Hi,
While publish or perish is a great utility for unusual author names, it is hopeless at sorting out which publications are yours and which are not for more common names - as it appears to work only on surname and initial/first name the last time I looked. There is also a limit of 1000 publications on the search - a problem if many of them belong to other people with the same name as you. Google scholar citations in contrast has a clever algorithm that somehow manages to identify your own publications and reject all others belonging to others with the same name as you. My advice is to steer clear of Publish or Perish if you have a name that is even remotely common!
Anyway, from a methodological point of view, surely the same tool should be used to estimate h-indices forthe user survey - it's not good statistical practice for some respondents to use one tool and some another.
Brian Francis
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