Scholar Sync

Scholar Sync helps universities, research labs, and academic departments publish and maintain scholarly work on their WordPress site. Set up a researcher’s profile in a few clicks — publications and citation metrics are imported automatically and kept in sync without any manual effort.

Display modes:

• Single researcher — a full publication list with citation count, h-index, and i10-index for one author ([scholar-sync-scholar])
• Group — display a lab, faculty, or any curated set of researchers, either as a combined publication feed or as an author grid/directory ([scholar-sync-group])

Key features:

• Profile setup in a 3 clicks — publications imported automatically
• Background sync keeps publications and citation metrics current
• Supports co-authors and research groups
• Manual add/edit for authors and individual articles
• Live preview with configurable display options (header, search, citations)

Shortcode examples:

Display a single researcher’s publications:

[scholar-sync-scholar id="42"]

Hide the header and citation counts:

[scholar-sync-scholar id="42" header="0" cited-by="0"]

Display a group (a lab/faculty feed or a curated author directory):

[scholar-sync-group id="12"]

External services:

This plugin communicates with the scholar-sync.org service to retrieve scholarly profile data (articles, citations, h-index) using the OpenAlex academic data source.

• Service URL: https://scholar-sync.org
• Terms of Service: https://scholar-sync.org/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://scholar-sync.org/privacy

Data sent to this service includes: the researcher’s OpenAlex author ID (or name used to find the profile), your site ID (used to identify your installation), and the requested page/article range. No personal data of your site visitors is transmitted.

The plugin itself does not restrict or gate any built-in functionality. All sync frequency and quota limits are enforced entirely by the scholar-sync.org service and communicated back to the plugin as service responses.

This plugin also uses the Freemius licensing SDK to manage plan status and plugin updates. Freemius may receive your site URL, admin email, and WordPress/PHP environment details.

• Freemius Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/
• Freemius Privacy Policy: https://freemius.com/privacy/

Credits

The following open-source libraries are bundled in the public/js/ and public/css/ directories:

• Bootstrap 5.3.8 — MIT License — https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap
• jQuery Validate 1.22.1 — MIT License — https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation

All libraries are included in minified form from their official distributions. Non-minified source files are available at the upstream GitHub URLs listed above.