A personal academic website that builds and updates itself
See a live exampleNo template to fill, nothing to host, nothing to maintain. Connect one profile (OpenReview, ORCID or Scholar), pick a handle, and about a minute later a complete page is waiting at cspaper.org/@you: bio, publications with badges and BibTeX, news, timeline. Publish in one click. From then on it keeps itself current: every week it finds your new papers, decisions and citations, and only asks before changing a word.
Three themes, your accent colour
How it stays current
Writes itself from your records
You connect a profile; the page does the rest. Publications are merged from OpenReview, ORCID, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and DBLP, de-duplicated, and tagged (oral, spotlight, best paper) from venue decisions. Nothing is invented: every line traces to a source.
Keeps itself current
Once a week the page checks the same sources for new papers, new decisions and citation counts, so it never goes stale. Metrics update on their own; anything that changes the text waits for your one-click yes.
You stay in charge, in one click
New papers, tags and positions arrive as suggestions with their evidence. Accept, add as selected, or ignore, then publish in one click. Your own page shows a small bar when updates are waiting, so there is nothing to remember.
A personal website for every stage of a research career
PhD students and postdocs
Your first homepage without a weekend of Jekyll. A handle, a profile, and you have a page to put on your CV, your conference badge and your job applications.
Faculty and group leaders
A publication list that stays complete on its own, acceptance badges the moment decisions land, and a page for your group, teaching, talks and service that is never a year behind.
Industry researchers and engineers
One address for your papers, code and talks across employers. Publications arrive from the indexes, your GitHub repositories become projects, and the page stays yours when you move.
Compared with building your own
| CSPaper Personal Page | GitHub Pages template | Google Sites, Wix, WordPress | University profile page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to a live page | About a minute | An afternoon or more | A few hours | Depends on your department |
| Coding or templates | None | Markdown, YAML, Git | Drag-and-drop builder | Web form, if any |
| Hosting and domain | Included, cspaper.org/@you | GitHub, your domain optional | Hosting plan, domain extra | University's |
| Publication list | Merged from five indexes, with BibTeX | Typed by hand or a BibTeX file | Typed by hand | Often incomplete |
| Stays up to date | Weekly, you approve in one click | When you edit and push | When you edit | Rarely |
| Cost | Free with a verified affiliation | Free, your time | Free tier with ads, or a plan | Free |
Questions people ask before making a research homepage
Is the personal website free?+
Yes. A personal page is free for researchers with a verified institutional email. There is no credit card, no hosting fee and no domain to buy: your page lives at cspaper.org/@you.
Do I need to write HTML, use a template or host anything?+
No. You connect one scholarly profile (OpenReview, ORCID, Google Scholar, DBLP or your existing website), pick a handle, and the page is written for you in about a minute. You edit any text you like and publish in one click.
Where do my publications come from?+
They are merged from OpenReview, ORCID, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and DBLP, de-duplicated, and shown with venue badges (oral, spotlight, best paper), citation counts, links and BibTeX. You can hide a paper, add one by hand or mark a namesake's paper as not yours.
How does the page stay up to date?+
Once a week it checks the same sources for new papers, acceptance decisions and citation counts. Metrics update on their own; anything that changes the text arrives as a suggestion you accept in one click, then publish.
How is this different from GitHub Pages, Google Sites or WordPress?+
Those give you a blank template you fill and maintain. Here the content comes from your scholarly records, the page is live in about a minute, and it keeps itself current. Nothing to install, host or update.
Is a personal page different from my Google Scholar profile?+
Google Scholar lists papers. A personal page is a full homepage: bio, research interests, news, experience, projects, talks, CV and contact details, with the publication list kept in sync and exportable as BibTeX.
Will my email address be exposed to spam bots?+
No. The address is never written into the page or its data. Visitors see a protected form and their browser assembles the real address on request, which keeps harvesters away.
Can I use my own domain?+
Not yet. Your page has a short address, cspaper.org/@you, and a canonical one, cspaper.org/people/you. You can link either from your university profile, CV or social accounts.
Can I delete the page later?+
Yes, at any time from the editor. The page and its data are removed and the handle is released after 90 days.
Free for researchers with a verified affiliation
A one-time code to your institutional email unlocks it (and OpenPrint publishing). No domain to buy, no site to host, no upkeep: your page lives at cspaper.org/@you and stays current on its own.