ScienceTracker focuses on continuous monitoring of a researcher's own academic profiles, while Publish or Perish is a broader bibliometric search and analysis tool.
ScienceTracker can periodically check selected researcher profiles in the background. The user sets up the profiles and monitoring interval once, rather than manually repeating the same bibliometric search each time.
ScienceTracker is designed to stay available in the Windows system tray as an ongoing personal citation and h-index monitor, without requiring the main window to remain open.
ScienceTracker can notify the researcher when monitored citation counts, publication totals, h-index values, or tracked publication data change.
In addition to local Windows notifications, ScienceTracker can optionally send metric-change notifications through Telegram, allowing researchers to receive updates away from the desktop.
ScienceTracker automatically accumulates a local chronological history of monitored metrics, making it easier to review how citation counts and h-index values have changed over time.
ScienceTracker includes ORCID in the researcher's monitoring environment and can use it alongside Google Scholar, Scopus and OpenAlex when reviewing publication records and profile coverage.
ScienceTracker can identify publications that are closest to contributing to the next h-index increase, giving the researcher a direct view of h-index progress at publication level.
Where a reliable journal match is available, ScienceTracker can enrich publication analytics with SCImago quartile information (Q1–Q4), adding journal context to the researcher's publication record.
ScienceTracker is intended for researchers looking for a Publish or Perish alternative focused on automatic citation and h-index monitoring, rather than primarily on ad-hoc bibliometric searching. It may be useful if you want a free Windows citation tracker that can monitor researcher profiles across Google Scholar, Scopus, OpenAlex and ORCID, keep a local history of metrics, and notify you when your citations, publications or h-index change.
Typical questions this workflow addresses include:
Publish or Perish is developed by Harzing.com and provides broad bibliometric search and analysis capabilities. Its official documentation is available at Harzing.com — Publish or Perish. ScienceTracker's positioning on this page is intentionally limited to its continuous personal-monitoring workflow and related services.