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Welcome to the home of the Co-Author Cloud!

What does it do?

  • It takes your name and searches for your papers on arXiv.
  • It takes all your coauthors and generates a pretty flash tag cloud where the size of each name reflects the number of co-authorships you share
  • If you click the name of a co-author of yours, it sends you to the arXiv page with all papers on which you are both authors, retrieving your collaborations.

Give it a try, here’s mine (see below for instructions on how to use it):

How to use it

You just need to write an html page with the following code in the <head> part of your page:

<script type="text/javascript">
	var tcolor = '0xff0000'; // colour of most prominent names
	var tcolor2 = '0x000000'; // colour of least prominent names
	var hicolor = '0xFF6666'; // highlight colour when hovering on a name
	var hsize = '500'; // width of the tag cloud in pixels
	var vsize = '500'; // height of the tag cloud in pixels
	var transparency = '1'; // 1 for transparent background, 0 for opaque
	var bgcolor = '#000000'; // modify if you want to set a different background colour;
		only relevant if transparency is set to 0.
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://geekosophy.net/author_cloud/author_cloud.js">
</script>

Replace the colours in bold above with your chosen colours. tcolor and tcolor2 defines the colour gradient in which the author names appear and hicolour is the colour of a name as it is about to be clicked (mouseover or hover).
And the following in the <body> where you want the tag cloud to appear:

	<div id="authorcloud">A. Uthor</div>

Replacing A. Uthor by your first initial and last name.

If your initial and last name yields many other people with the same initials, you can also use your full name:

	<div id="authorcloud">Anne Uthor</div>

History

Version: 1.1
What’s new:

  • customize the sizes
  • remove transparency and set background colour

Version: 1.0
What’s new:

  • customize the colours
  • use initials or full name

Planned upgrades

  • Many versions of the author name to take into account accents, different spellings, married names, etc.
  • Turn it into a WordPress plugin

Download

If you want to play around with it, or help implement new features, you can download the source code here.

Stay Informed of updates!

If you’re using the Co-author Cloud and would like to know when we have updated the widget, send us an email at coauthor.cloud@gmail.com and we’ll drop you a line when it has been updated.
You can also follow us on twitter: @coauthorcloud.

We’ll try to ensure that none of the updates breaks your co-author cloud :)

Enjoy and give us your feedback!