Auto Publication List

Overview

Auto Publication List is a lightweight automation pipeline that keeps your publication list up to date without manual intervention. It fetches your Google Scholar profile export and generates both a BibTeX bibliography file and a LaTeX metrics snippet.

How It Works

1. Fetch — Downloads your Google Scholar export (BibTeX-like text) using your Scholar user ID
2. Parse — Cleans and normalises the entries into valid BibTeX format
3. Metrics — Extracts citation counts, h-index, and i10-index and writes them to metrics.tex
4. Export — Outputs publications.bib ready to include in any LaTeX document

Usage

from update_publications import fetch_scholar_publications

# Fetch and export
fetch_scholar_publications(user_id="YOUR_SCHOLAR_ID", output_dir="./output")

GitHub Actions Integration

Add the workflow to your repository to run on a schedule:

name: Update Publications
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 6 * * 1'   # Every Monday at 06:00 UTC
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with: { python-version: '3.11' }
      - run: pip install -r requirements.txt
      - run: python update_publications.py
      - uses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v5
        with:
          commit_message: "chore: auto-update publications"

Output Files