ImpactPubs Plugin

This is a WordPress plugin to automatically display a publication profile on a website.

Results can be pulled from PubMed and will be automatically updated daily.

One profile can be created per blog user.

[publications]

If your site has multiple users, each user can create their own publications list on the dashboard. The
shortcode is then changed into:

[publications name=login_name]

To retrieve results from PubMed:
Because PubMed does not use unique identifiers for a authors,
you must come up with a way to search for yourself that distinguishes
you from other people in the database.

For example:

• “mcclintock”

• “mcclintock B”

• “mcclintock B AND Cold Spring Harbor[affiliation]”

1. Download the Plugin and activate it.

2. Go to PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) and find a unique string search string to identify
   the papers you would like to display.

3. Enter the search string on the plugin page or on your user profile page in WordPress.

4. Wherever you’d like the publications list to appear, type [publications name=loginname], where loginname is your WordPress login name.

1. 

   Example of required user input. This is a form on the Wordpress dashboard.

2. 

   Example of output the end-user sees upon requesting the page. Style may vary depending on your WordPress theme.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the Plugin and activate it.

2. Go to PubMed (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/) and find a unique string search string to identify
   the papers you would like to display.

3. Enter the search string on the plugin page or on your user profile page in WordPress.

4. Wherever you’d like the publications list to appear, type [publications name=loginname], where loginname is your WordPress login name.

1.0

• Initial release

= 2.0=

• Added ORCiD search functionality

• Added multi-user functionality

• Added weekly automatic updates

2.1

• orcid id’s are now validated if they include letters, numbers, or dashes

• Up to 1000 records can now be retrieved from PubMed (this should be large enough to include anyone, but not so large so as to invite a near-infinite loop if an inappropriate search is done.

2.2

• simplified author formatting function

• added css and js to adjust the line height to fix a spacing issue with very small fonts

2.3

• changed ORCiD retrieval to now retrieve from feed.labs.orcid-eu.org. As this service is also an ongoing project this may require some tweaks in the future.

2.4

• changed remote requests to utilize WordPress HTTP API to support a wider variety of hosting sites

2.5

• fixed automatic updates, changed to daily cron

2.6

• Changed naming of span classes to avoid conflicts

• made ORCiD parser accept articles without a journal or a date. Now we only require a title and at least one author

2.7

• Retired all the ImpactStory code.

• Improved error handling (when remote service can’t be contacted) a bit.

3.0

• Put ImpactStory back in, as a completely separate 3rd party service.

3.1

• Updated calling from ImpactStory, to work with their new API.

3.2

• Gave users the option to place papers in tabs organized by year.

3.3

• Remove curly braces from ORCiD-imported articles’ title and journal name

4.0

• Remove ORCID and ImpactStory options entirely.