Filter by publication type (e.g. conference/journal)

[hugoblox]

Filter by publication type (e.g. conference/journal)

[gcushen]

The publication filter for the publication index page (located at http://YOUR_URL/publication/) has been implemented in update ae3a757.

If you click on the commit link, you can see which new parameters you'll need to add to your config.toml and publication frontmatter by looking at the highlighted changes for files in the exampleSite/ folder.

Demo at https://gcushen.github.io/hugo-academic-demo/publication/ .

I look forward to hearing your feedback :)

[gcushen]

@sorooshafiee yes, this is an interesting idea and it is something I have been considering.

Ideally this would be implemented using JS and JSON, but at the time the theme was created, Hugo could not produce a good JSON output of page data. Maybe things have changed now, I'll try to look into it again.

Also, if you look at any reference management tool, it supports a massive range of publication types and the most relevant publication types may vary a bit according to discipline. However, something similar to the four types you mentioned should provide a good general selection for everyone whilst maintaining the theme's simplicity.

[abjer]

Perhaps you could also make the publications section more generic, for instance as 'Research' and include a subsection with unpublished manuscripts/working papers.

[abjer]

Nevermind, I realise this is possible through config.toml

[hogtave]

Hi,
I think the publication filter is a great idea and gives an extra degree of flexibility, given that we can create custom types (e.g "first author" or “patent” types). However, I found that only the first type specified with publication_types is taken into account.
Has anyone run into the same problem?

[jagd]

@hogtave
you can add your own category item e.g. patent easily.

First author should be orthogonal to this category list , you may want to apply #323 to your code.

[hogtave]

@jagd thank you, i missed #323 for the first author usecase.

I realized i was really unclear in my previous comment.
What i meant is that, in the case a publication has several types, only the first type is taken into account when filtering the publication on http://YOUR_URL/publication/.
For instance, if i create the types #7 "Academic Publications" in the config file and in a publication, if i let publication_types be ["1","7"]. Then, on http://YOUR_URL/publication/, i'll be able to see the publication in the list by setting "Conference proceedings", but i'll have a blank page when selecting the filter "Academic Publications".
The publications widgets on the front page works perfectly with both publication_type=1 and publication_type=7 tho.
Am i missing something?
NB : i used this to have two publication widgets on the frontpage, one for patents, one for actual publications.

[jagd]

Indeed I have understood you @hogtave quite well.
That was actually also my first idea to handle this issue. I've modify the template and actually have implemented this "multiple publication_types" feature.

It worked as what you described, however I realized that I may not like this way to handle the categories and then I switched back to the single pub type. There were several reasons for that.

[hogtave]

Gotcha. I guess I'll go for something along the lines of #323 then.
Thanks for your answer.

[sbmaruf]

@gcushen So far the papers are automatically sorted by year. Is there any way to do with dates (with year, month, date)?
Sometimes we may need to sort our important papers at first in a specific year. (Like you always want to show your best paper of the year at first. )