Connecting Hugo and Excel for Your List of Publications

On my website I list my publications. Hugo Academic has a feature for this, but I’m not too keen on that feature. It is quite time intensive to update your publications that way, and I like being lazy. I keep track of my publications in an Excel file. Each time I have another one, I only need to add a line to my spreadsheet.

I already had this spreadsheet before I had my website under Hugo Academic but now integrated my publications on my site. People asked me how I did this, so here’s a tutorial. For this, I use a stripped-down version of my publication list.

The results of this code is what you can see below. A few remarks:

  • Put the code wherever you want it on your page. I made a specific page for it, but if you prefer you can also integrate it on another page.

  • I’m sure the code can be made prettier using tidyverse, but this works too.

  • For this example, I have the Excel file in de same folder as the Rmd file. This is done on purpose, such that you can download that file. Normally, you’d want the file a few levels higher, such that the file isn’t published online. By changing the call in read.xls() to e.g. ‘file = “../../publications.xlsx”’, you can achieve this.

  • I’ve used an Excel file. If you want, you can also keep track of your publications in some Open Office format, CSV, or even SPSS. Basically, anything that R can import (which is pretty much everything) can be used.

  • Hugo automatically updates the website once a file gets updated. If you add a publication, the Excel file gets updated, but the Rmd-file doesn’t, so Hugo doesn’t update your compiled publication list. You have to manually tell Hugo to do this, by ‘touching’ the Rmd-file, or emptying the /public folder.

  • If you want, you can add tweaks. For instance, I’ve added a column ‘link’ in the Excel spreadsheet for linking to papers that aren’t open access but which I can share publicly through my university repository; and I included the Altmetric plugin.

  • If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know.

The code and the output:

library("xlsx")
my_data <- read.xlsx(file = "publications.xlsx", sheetIndex = 1, 
                     header = TRUE, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

my_data$Row <- row.names(my_data)
my_data <- my_data[order(my_data$Year, as.numeric(my_data$Row), 
                         decreasing = c(TRUE, TRUE)), ]
years <- sort(unique(my_data$Year), decreasing = TRUE)

for(year in years){
  cat(paste("\n","## ",year,sep=""))
  thisyear <- my_data[my_data$Year == year,]
  if(dim(thisyear)[1] > 0){
    cat("\n<ul>")
    for(i in 1:(dim(thisyear)[1])){
      cat(paste("\n<li>",sep = ""))
      cat(paste(thisyear$Author[i], " (",year,"). ",thisyear$Title[i], ". ", sep=""))
      if(!is.na(thisyear$Journal[i])){
        cat(paste("<i>",thisyear$Journal[i],"</i>. ",sep="")) 
      }
      if(!is.na(thisyear$Details[i])){ 
        cat(paste(thisyear$Details[i],sep="")) 
      }
      
      if(!is.na(thisyear$DOI[i])){
        cat(" <a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/",thisyear$DOI[i],"\" 
            target=\"_blank\">[DOI]</i></a>")  
      }
    }
    cat("\n</ul>")
  }
}

2020

  • Willems, S. J. W., Albers, C. J., Smeets, I. (2020). Variability in the interpretation of probability phrases used in Dutch news articles - a risk for miscommuncation. JCOM - Journal of Science Communication. 19(02): A03 [DOI]
  • Cheplygina, V., Hermans, F., Albers, C. J., Bielczyk, N., Smeets, I. (2020). Ten simple rules for getting started on Twitter as a scientist. PLoS Computational Biology. 16(2): e1007513 [DOI]

2019

  • Bhushan, N., Mohnert, F., Sloot, D., Jans, L., Albers, C., Steg, E. M. (2019). Using a Gaussian Graphical Model to Explore Relationships Between Items and Variables in Environmental Psychology Research. Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 1050 [DOI]
  • Albers, C. J. (2019). The problem with unadjusted multiple and sequential statistical testing. Nature Communications. 10(1), 1921 [DOI]
  • Namazkhan, M., Albers, C. J., Steg, E. M. (2019). The role of environmental values, socio-demographics and building characteristics in setting room temperatures in winter. Energy. 171, 1183-1192 [DOI]
  • Venhuizen, G. J., Hut, R., Albers, C. J., Stoof, C. R., Smeets, I. (2019). Flooded by jargon: how the interpretation of water-related terms differ between hydrology experts and the general audience. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 23(1): 393-403 [DOI]
  • Ernst, A. F., Timmerman, M. E., Jeronimus, B. F., Albers, C. J. (2019). Insight into individual differences in emotion dynamics with clustering. Assessment. Published online ahead of print [DOI]
  • Voncken, L., Albers, C. J., Timmerman, M. E. (2019). Improving confidence intervals for normed test scores: Include uncertainty due to sampling variability. Behavior Research Methods. 51(2), 826-839 [DOI]
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Casper Albers
Statistician • Researcher • Columnist
Professor in Applied Statistics and Data Visualisation

My research interests include applied statistics in general, modelling of psychological longitudinal data in particular, statistics communication and data visualisation matter.

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