Tool to manage and/or make available a list of my publications on the web?

Question

This some kind of follow up question to How to prevent plagiarism of my papers?, since I've been clearly convinced that it was in my best interest to put my own papers on my webpage.

Now, since I need to make the effort to put them, I might as well try to do it in a nice way. Right now, I'm using bibtex2html, which is a tool I can run locally, taking a bibtex file with my publications (that I create manually), and that outputs the resulting HTML, that I can copy/paste to my webpage.

I like it, but it can sometimes be complicated to use, so I was wondering if there exist some other tools? My ideal tool would be some tool where I could put the bibtex (one for each publication) and the pdf, and that would create a kind of database, such that I could sort my publications easily.

(Note: Right now, my webpage is hosted directly on Wordpress, so I can't host directly a PhP script, but if there were a really good tool, I could try to host my webpage myself.)

Answer 1

You could consider hosting it via one of the reference / citation managers, such as CiteULike or Mendeley, which can take imports of Bibtex files. Your own university may (should!) have such a web-front plus publication database available, for you to embed into your university home page.

Wordpress

If your webpage is hosted directly on wordpress.com, then no, you can't host your own PHP script. If it's Wordpress hosted elsewhere, then you should be able to add your own PHP script, by incorporating into your plugin. There are skeleton plugins available to get you started. It may be that asking on Wordpress.SE will give you some useful pointers.

Mendeley

On Mendeley: there is an embedding plugin for Wordpress. I haven't used it, but it might be worth looking into. Or, on your Mendeley profile web page, select edit, then embed. Or Share > Embed elsewhere on Mendeley pages (groups or whatever).

There's an article on Beta Science on embedding Mendeley that may be useful. It uses the same Share > Embed as above, but recommends creating a "Publications" group in the desktop client first, putting your own papers into that, (in order, from oldest to newest). Then right-click -> Edit Settings, then under "Collection Access" choose "Public - visible to everyone". Then click "Apply and Sync". Then, from the collection web page, select "embed" to get the appropriate html.

CiteULike

If you prefer CiteULike, they have an excellent API, allowing you to customise your own tools. And the staff on the discussion forum are very responsive (a marked contrast with Mendeley).

Academia.edu

If you prefer Academia.edu, you could always embed your publications page (and maybe your talks page too) in an iframe

Answer 2

You can also try out Google Scholar Citations, which is a new service for showing the citation count for all your papers. As an example, here's my small list.

Answer 3

Bibbase

I think that BibBase would be a perfect solution if you can at least run CGI scripts; instructions can be found on this page (if you can run PHP then it's even simpler). You need to feed it a Bibtex file, but if you use Mendeley then it can automatically grab it from there.

Update: Bibbase now allows you to use just javascript. (h/t ChristianF)

BibBase makes it easy for scientists to maintain their publications pages. As a scientist, you simply maintain a BibTeX-file of your publications, including links to the papers, and BibBase does the rest. When a web user visits your publications page, BibBase dynamically generates an always up-to-date HTML page from the BibTeX file, and even allows the user to sort the publications by other than the default ordering (e.g. year, author, keywords, research area, publication type).

Here is an example of the output.

A custom alternative

I happen to have a departmental server that doesn't allow PHP or CGI; you can read about what I do to solve this problem on my blog and see the kind of output generated on my group's site. An even more jazzed-up version, which is searchable and filterable, is on my own site.

Answer 4

An even easier solution that doesn't require anything except the ability to upload a BibTeX file is Exhibit. It takes your bibtex, does some javascripting on it, and renders the result. It seems CSS-stylable, and even allows for faceted search.

Answer 5

I'm super lazy and I just use Mendeley's group widget.

• Make a group for your publications
• Dump all of your publications into the group. Hopefully all of the metadata is determined for you.
• Use the widget to generate the code for you.

Result looks like:

<iframe src="http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1281613/_/widget/27/3/" 
frameborder="0" allowTransparency="true" style="width:260px;
height:550px;"></iframe>
<p style="width:260px"><a href="http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1281613/swartz-lab/"
title="Swartz Lab on Mendeley">Swartz Lab</a></p>

Answer 6

If your paper are on arXiv you can use myarticles widget.

It requires obtaining an arXiv author identifier, which allows you to display your preprints by typing http://arxiv.org/a/[user].

An example of the widget below:

Answer 7

Just for completeness, I would also mention ResearcherID, a service similar to (but older than) Google Scholar citations, courtesy of Thompson Reuters. They've got badges and similar fancy links that you can put on your homepage.

I just use it as a convenient list and tool for anybody obsessed with h-indices and impact factors.

Answer 8

Just a little follow-up on my own question. I've recently moved my webpage to a server I manage, which allows me to use PHP scripts, and I came across the excellent Bibtex Browser.

Basically, I just have my own bibtex file on my server, and the publications list is automatically generated from a very simple PHP script. It seems to work as well as Exhibit, that Suresh mentioned, and although it does not answer exactly my original question (since it requires the ability to run scripts), I thought I would put it here for completeness :)

Answer 9

I know the topic is old, but I have recently developed a solution that fits the question very well - just in case other people are looking for the same information.

You can try BibSpace. It was created to manage publications of a group and display them automatically on the webpage. It has many fancy features and new features are being developed actively. There is a demo available. The software is free and open source. (Disclaimer: I am the author of this tool).

Answer 10

If you are a user of Wordpress and Zotero, then you can use the Zotpress plugin to display Zotero citations inside your Wordpress blog.

Answer 11

The Academic theme based on Hugo is a nice theme specifically catered towards academic researchers. For publications, it has an option to directly import from a list in the BibTex format, which could be exported from a reference manager such as Zotero.

Subsequently, you also have the option to control the format the list is displayed in, add external links (such as to the published paper or code), and create a list of selected publications. The theme also provides visitors to your page the option to filter publications by title, authors, year, and publication type, without needing any manual setup.

Beyond this, the theme can also be used to build an entire personal or laboratory website, with individual pages for lab members. It also provides instructions for hosting with GitHub Pages (free) or Netlify.

Screenshot from the demo page for reference:

References:

1. Theme homepage
2. Demo website, and more examples of individual and group websites in use
3. Documentation

_{Note: I am not an author and am not affiliated with the creators of this theme.}