add 'Working Papers' Section (within publications) to hugo-academic site

Question

I am using R blogdown package to create my personal website. I am basing it on the hugo-academic theme (code here)

I would like to add a "working papers" section to the publications. In my discipline Economics we normally have

• "working papers" (pdf is available)
• "work in progress" (no pdf yet)
• "publications"

How can I add that?

Do I need to change the internals of the hugo-academic theme? (I am an R user/programmer with little webdev knowledge)

I posted as github issue: hugo-academic/issues/416

Edit: I would also like to have the "Selected Publications" section disapear. I could not do that even after setting selected = false on all the publications .md files. This was asked in github issue: hugo-academic/issues/417

Edit2: I would also like to add a new "Work in progress" section (hugo-academic/issues/418).

Edit3: @jsb answer bellow does not alter how the papers are grouped by type (working paper, work in progress, peer-reviewd), which is my main concern. But it does add these cathegories to the metadata (and fixes question two).

They way I understand it now, I would have to add new widgets for "Working Papers" and "Work in Progress". I think I could create them by analogy from the existing widgets.

Where in the code are the widgets are defined?

Answer 1

Answering your first question: I don't think this is possible in the current version of the academic theme. However, what you can do, is to use the publication types that are defined in the config.toml file. In this file, there is a list of publication types that are used to categorize publications. It includes a type called "work in progress". You can also add your own publication types to this list, like so:

  publication_types = [
    'Uncategorized',  # 0
    'Conference proceedings',  # 1
    'Journal',  # 2
    'Work in progress',  # 3
    'Technical report',  # 4
    'Book',  # 5
    'Book chapter',  # 6
    'working paper', # 7
    'peer-reviewed' # 8
  ]

For each publication Markdown file, change the publication types parameter to the wanted type, e.g. publication_types = ["7"] for a working paper. The effect is visible when you click on the "Details" link for a publication listed under "Publications" or "Selected Publications".

Answering your second question: to delete a section, delete the corresponding Markdown file from the "content/home" folder. Alternatively, move the unwanted Markdown file to a new folder, e.g. "_not_used", in the "content" folder.

Update: OP found the answer himself, and I am putting it here for future reference:

I found the solution, all I had to do was duplicate the publications.md file, naming it publications_working_papers.md, publications_book_chapters.md for instance. In each file use widget = "publications" and adjust the publication_type accordingly. And also the weight to determine the order.

Answer 2

Not sure if this is still relevant @lucasmation, but for 'Selected Publications' to be turned off, you'd have to go to contents>home>publications_selected.md and set the widget to be false. Hope this helps.

# Selected Publications widget.
# This widget displays publications from `content/publication/` which have
# `selected = true` in their `+++` front matter.
widget = "publications_selected"
active = false
date = 2012-01-01T00:00:00