Site experiment · first seen May 30, 2026

Scholar Lens

Scholar Lens adds filters and linked highlights to my publications page. Focus DesignWeaver, for example, and its bibliography row, citation total, and annual citation bars light up together. The list remains the record; the lens helps you follow one paper through it.

Dated citation evidence Authorship and format Bidirectional highlight List stays authoritative
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DesignWeaver highlighted in Scholar Lens's responsive publication and citation view
DesignWeaver in focus at the July 22 source checkpoint. Desktop shows the linked row, citation chip, and dated annual bars; mobile starts with the focused bibliography row.
Why

A long bibliography made it hard to trace first-author full papers or see which paper contributed to a year's citation bar.

What

Filters for authorship and format, plus one highlight shared by the row, citation chip, and annual bars.

Try

Choose a filter, then hover or focus a paper to follow its evidence across the page.

Why it began

The publication list already had the core facts: title, authors, venue, year, and links. What it lacked was a quick way to answer questions such as “which full papers are first-authored?” or “which paper contributed to this year’s citation bar?”

My friend Howard recommended the Google Scholar Author Highlighter. I liked one thing about it: you could follow a person through a dense page without hiding everything around them. Scholar Lens applies that idea to papers on my own bibliography.

What changed

  1. Starting point

    The bibliography had the facts.

    It already answered “what did Sirui publish?” I kept that list intact and added filters for authorship and paper format above it.

  2. Interaction change

    One focus now travels across three views.

    Hovering or focusing a bibliography row also highlights its citation chip and annual contributions. There is no second paper record to keep in sync.

  3. Data rule

    Current totals and annual bars keep their own dates.

    The lifetime count can refresh while the annual snapshot stays fixed. Both dates remain visible so an update to one does not quietly rewrite the other.

Follow DesignWeaver through the lens

DesignWeaver makes the interaction easy to see. Its bibliography row, lifetime citation chip, and annual bars share one publication key, while each keeps its own job and date. Paper Constellation uses the same key to send focus here.

Current data anatomy

One key, three cues.

This strip is rendered at build time from the same public lens data. It explains the current linkage without pretending to be a second interactive bibliography.

  1. Bibliography row
    CHI 2025 DesignWeaver Full paper · First author

    The canonical row owns the title, authors, venue, format, and links. The lens can emphasize or filter it; it cannot replace it.

  2. Lifetime citation chip
    41 citations

    Focusing the row highlights the latest published aggregate. Its date advances with the public totals instead of being frozen into this case-study copy.

  3. Annual bars
    7 2025 28 2026

    The bars retain the separately dated per-paper snapshot. They are not reconstructed to equal the later lifetime chip.

Technical provenance and exact ledger
  • Canonical paper record: _bibliography/papers.bib; the lens joins through stable publication keys rather than duplicating titles or venue facts.
  • Lifetime totals: _data/citations.yml and _data/publication_lens.yml, synchronized . DesignWeaver records 41 citations; all five listed papers total 247.
  • Annual snapshot: _data/publication_lens.yml, explicitly frozen as of . DesignWeaver contributes 7 in 2025 and 28 in 2026 in that snapshot.
  • Responsive runtime evidence: captured from /publications/ at source commit 497b22266 on July 22 in Chromium 145.0.7632.6, Noon light theme, with keyboard focus on DesignWeaver. The 1440 × 1000 source viewport yielded a 1440 × 900 desktop crop showing the linked row, 39-citation chip, and 2025–2026 contribution bars (SHA-256 064d8496d66fb0b7b362d99cc80c60fe57b2f7c750fc1ba064eac4ea8519ed73). The 390 × 1000 source viewport yielded a 360 × 270 mobile row crop (SHA-256 6cd988e461b996886e7a90cad758abc1ebb378ddcaec6d7192bdcec7505c59ae); it does not pretend the desktop-only chart is present.
  • Progressive enhancement: the accepted-paper bibliography is complete in server-rendered HTML; JavaScript adds filters and linked focus states.
  1. 089b29413Added the site-native lens, per-paper citation data, annual bars, filters, and publication-list synchronization.
  2. c568345d1Connected hover and keyboard focus so annual contribution, citation chip, and paper entry read as one evidence path.
  3. beeb11fb2Recorded the annual per-paper snapshot while preserving the bibliography as the canonical accepted-paper list.
  4. eeb0a5764Made the lifetime-total sync clock explicit while preserving the separately dated June 17 annual snapshot.
  5. c23d42e9dArchived the current 1330 × 900 Scholar Lens artifact for the project card and case-study hero.
  6. fa19d29d5Advanced the lifetime-total freshness date at that checkpoint; later syncs continue to update the current totals independently from the annual snapshot.
  7. 497b22266Used this deployed source checkpoint to capture the DesignWeaver focus state at exact desktop and mobile viewports, replacing the generic all-papers artifact with story-specific evidence.