Bin Chen

Bin Chen

Research Associate Professor

Website Repository — CLAUDE.md

Website Repository — CLAUDE.md

Overview

Academic website for Bin Chen, hosted on GitHub Pages at binchen.ac / chenbinzero.github.io.

Framework

  • Jekyll static site (Academic Pages theme, fork of Minimal Mistakes)
  • Built and deployed by GitHub Pages automatically on push to master

Key Paths

  • _config.yml — site configuration
  • _data/navigation.yml — top navigation bar (CV link here)
  • _data/google_scholar_stats.json — auto-updated citation stats
  • _pages/ — site pages (about, publications, etc.)
  • _publications/ — individual publication markdown files
  • files/Bin_Chen_CV.pdf — CV PDF (auto-updated, do not edit manually)
  • markdown_generator/pubs_wos.bib — BibTeX source for publications
  • markdown_generator/pubsFromBib.py — generates publication .md files from .bib

Automation

  1. Google Scholar stats — .github/workflows/update_scholar_stats.yml runs monthly, updates _data/google_scholar_stats.json
  2. CV PDF — auto-compiled from LaTeX source in chenbinzero/cv-latex repo and pushed here via GitHub Action. Do not edit files/Bin_Chen_CV.pdf directly — edit the .tex source in the cv-latex repo instead.

CV Update Workflow

To update the CV:

  1. Edit cv_4.tex in the chenbinzero/cv-latex repo (or via Overleaf)
  2. Push to GitHub (or sync from Overleaf via GitHub Sync button)
  3. GitHub Action auto-compiles with xelatex and pushes Bin_Chen_CV.pdf to files/ in this repo
  4. Remind user to pull changes into Overleaf if edits were made from GitHub side

Publications

  • Each publication is a markdown file in _publications/ with YAML front matter
  • Citation stats displayed on Publications page via _data/google_scholar_stats.json
  • Scope: first-author and corresponding-author papers only (not all co-authored papers)
  • No numbering on the list — reverse chronological order only (numbers shift when papers are added)

Workflow: Adding a New Paper

  1. Get the DOI (from journal page or email notification)
  2. Fetch abstract via WoS Extended API: search_papers tool with DO=<DOI> query
  3. Fetch volume/issue/pages via CrossRef: api.crossref.org/works/<DOI>
  4. Create _publications/YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md following the structure below
  5. git add _publications/<file>.md && git commit && git push — GitHub Pages rebuilds in ~1–2 min

Slug convention: YYYY-MM-DD-first-few-words-of-title.md (lowercase, hyphens, ≤80 chars) Date field: use online-first/published date for sort order; use YYYY-01-01 if only print year is known

Citation Format (ACS Style)

  • Author separator: semicolons — Last, F. M.; Last, F. M.
  • Title: plain text, no quotation marks, followed by a period
  • Journal: italicised with <i>...</i>
  • Full format: Author1; Author2. Title. <i>Journal</i> Year, Vol (Issue), Pages.
  • Chen, B. highlighting: <b>Chen, B.<sup>*</sup></b> (corresponding) or <b>Chen, B.<sup>†</sup></b> (equal contribution)

Venue Field Format

  • Always include full bibliographic info: Journal Year, Volume (Issue), Pages
  • Example: Nature Energy 2024, 9 (3), 316–323 or Science 2024, 386 (6724), 898–902
  • Source volume/issue/pages from CrossRef API (api.crossref.org/works/<DOI>) when WoS metadata is incomplete
  • Do not use year alone without volume/pages (e.g. avoid Nature Energy 2024)
  • Year is embedded in the venue string; the Jekyll template does NOT append year separately

Paper Summaries (body text in _publications/*.md)

  • 1–2 sentences derived from the abstract (not the title)
  • Source abstracts via WoS Extended API (DO=<DOI> field-tagged queries via search_papers tool)
  • Capture: key mechanism/finding + key quantitative result (PCE %, stability metric, etc.)
  • Use HTML entities for special chars: &deg;, &gt;, &ndash;, &mu;, <sub>, <sup>

Citation Stats

  • Do not use OpenAlex (wrong author disambiguation for “Bin Chen”) or Semantic Scholar (fragmented, ~28 papers)
  • Source: Google Scholar via scholarly library (Scholar ID: H001jmIAAAAJ)
  • Cached in _data/google_scholar_stats.json, refreshed monthly by .github/workflows/update_scholar_stats.yml
  • Manual trigger: GitHub → Actions tab → “Update Google Scholar Stats” → Run workflow

Publication MD File Template

---
title: "Full Paper Title"
collection: publications
permalink: /publication/YYYY-MM-DD-slug
date: YYYY-MM-DD          # used for sort order; use online-first date if available
venue: 'Journal Year, Vol (Issue), Pages'
paperurl: 'https://doi.org/<DOI>'
citation: 'Author1; Author2; <b>Chen, B.<sup>*</sup></b>; Author3 Title. <i>Journal</i> Year, Vol (Issue), Pages.'
---

1–2 sentence abstract-based summary with key mechanism and key quantitative result.

[Access paper here](https://doi.org/<DOI>){:target="_blank"}