A Modern and Responsive Academic Personal Homepage
Some examples:
- Automatically update google scholar citations: using the google scholar crawler and github action, this REPO can update the author citations and publication citations automatically.
- Support Google analytics: you can trace the traffics of your homepage by easy configuration.
- Responsive: this homepage automatically adjust for different screen sizes and viewports.
- Beautiful and Simple Design: this homepage is beautiful and simple, which is very suitable for academic personal homepage.
- SEO: search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps search engines find the information you publish on your homepage easily, then rank it against similar websites.
- Fork this REPO and rename to
USERNAME.github.io, whereUSERNAMEis your github USERNAME. - Configure the google scholar citation crawler:
- Find your google scholar ID in the url of your google scholar page (e.g., https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SCHOLAR_ID), where
SCHOLAR_IDis your google scholar ID. - Set GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_ID variable to your google scholar ID in
Settings -> Secrets -> Actions -> New repository secretof the REPO website withname=GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_IDandvalue=SCHOLAR_ID. - Click the
Actionof the REPO website and enable the workflow 72DE s by clicking "I understand my workflows, go ahead and enable them". This github action will generate google scholar citation stats datags_data.jsoningoogle-scholar-statsbranch of your REPO. When you update your main branch, this action will be triggered. This action will also be trigger 08:00 UTC everyday.
- Find your google scholar ID in the url of your google scholar page (e.g., https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SCHOLAR_ID), where
- Generate favicon using favicon-generator and download all generated files to
REPO/images. - Modify the configuration of your homepage
_config.yml:title: the title of your homepagedescription: the description of your homepagerepository: USER_NAME/REPO_NAMEgoogle_analytics_id(optional): google analytics ID- SEO Related keys (optional): get these keys from search engine consoles (e.g. Google, Bing and Baidu) and paste here.
author: the author information of this homepage, including some other websites, emails, city and univeristy.- More configuration details are described in the comments.
- Add your homepage content in
_pages/about.md.- You can use html+markdown syntax just same as jekyll.
- You can use a
<span>tag with classshow_paper_citationsand attributedatato display the citations of your paper. Set the data to the google scholar paper ID. For<span class='show_paper_citations' data='DhtAFkwAAAAJ:ALROH1vI_8AC'></span>
Q: How to get the google scholar paper ID?
A: Enter your google scholar homepage and click the paper name. Then you can see the paper ID fromcitation_for_view=XXXX, whereXXXXis the required paper ID.
- Your page will be published at
https://USERNAME.github.io.
- Clone your REPO to local using
git clone. - Install Jekyll building environment, including
Ruby,RubyGems,GCCandMakefollowing the installation guide. - Run
bash run_server.shto start Jekyll livereload server. - Open http://127.0.0.1:4000 in your browser.
- If you change the source code of the website, the livereload server will automatically refresh.
- When you finish the modification of your homepage,
commityour changings andpushto your remote REPO usinggitcommand.
- AcadHomepage incorporates Font Awesome, which is distributed under the terms of the SIL OFL 1.1 and MIT License.
- AcadHomepage is influenced by the github repo mmistakes/minimal-mistakes, which is distributed under the MIT License.
- AcadHomepage is influenced by the github repo academicpages/academicpages.github.io, which is distributed under the MIT License.