An academic site
built from your CV.
An academic portfolio is a structured record, not a pitch. It follows the shape a search committee expects: a short bio, research interests, a full publication list, teaching, and the CV as a download, in that order and nothing flashy in the way. To build one, paste your CV into Portfolio, pick a quiet serif design such as the Monograph family, and keep every citation in a consistent style with a stable link to each paper. A clean scholarly page is read by hiring committees, prospective students, and collaborators, so it should be legible, current, and easy to cite.
Department page, profile, or your own.
Academics usually rely on a departmental page, a scholarly profile such as an ORCID or Scholar page, or their own site. Here is how the three serve a committee and a collaborator.
| What a committee checks | Department page | Scholar or ORCID profile | Your own site |
|---|---|---|---|
| You control what appears | The department does | Partly, within their fields | Fully, your structure |
| Research narrative, not just a list | Rarely | No, metadata only | A statement plus the record |
| Teaching and supervision shown | Sometimes | No | Its own section |
| Survives moving institutions | Lost when you leave | Yes | Yours to keep |
| On a stable, citable domain | A department subpath | Their domain | Your name, automatic TLS |
| A job-market CV to download | Occasionally | No | One click, from the same content |
Keep the ORCID and Scholar profiles; the site should link to them. Your own page is where the narrative and the teaching record live, which those profiles cannot hold.
Publications, teaching, and the CV.
A scholarly page has an expected order. Following it is not dull, it is legible to the people reading fastest: a hiring committee.
A few sentences on who you are and the questions your work asks. A committee reads this to place you in a subfield before they look at a single paper, so make it specific rather than grand.
Group by type, journal articles, chapters, conference papers, then reverse chronological within each. Keep one citation style throughout and give each entry a stable link, a DOI where there is one.
List courses taught, levels, and students supervised. For teaching-focused posts this section carries as much weight as the publications, so give it room rather than a single line.
A committee still wants the PDF. Offer the full CV as a one-click download from the same content, so the page and the document never drift out of sync.
The same paste produces a job-market CV alongside the site, and its readability score checks that a hiring system can parse a long publication list without scrambling it.
Keeping the record citable.
The publication list is the heart of an academic page, and small inconsistencies in it read as carelessness. Hold these steady.
Pick the convention of your field and apply it to every entry without exception. A list where some papers show a DOI and others do not, or where author order flips format, undercuts the authority the list is meant to carry.
Link each entry to a DOI, a publisher page, or an open repository copy. A committee and a collaborator both check the work, and a dead or missing link on your own site is an avoidable bad impression.
Mark them clearly as preprints or under review, then list them. Recent work signals an active researcher, and honest labelling is expected. Passing a preprint off as a publication is the only real mistake here.
Update the list when work lands and note when the page was last revised. On a personal domain you keep, the record follows you across institutions rather than vanishing when you move.
Which of the 60 designs read as scholarly.
Of the 60 designs and 48 resume layouts, these suit a long, text-dense scholarly record, and these fight it.
A serif face, a single column, and generous margins are exactly what a long publication list wants. It reads like a well-set academic page and never competes with the citations for attention.
If you want a slightly more institutional look, a clean corporate family holds a bio, a list, and a teaching section without decoration. Good for research-institute or industry-adjacent roles.
Signal, the founder variants, and the photography families are built for presence and pictures. On an academic page they read as showy and get in the way of a record meant to be scanned quickly.
Choose one of the 48 layouts that handles a multi-page CV in one column, so a long list of publications, grants, and teaching parses in order when a hiring system reads it.
Who an academic template is not for.
A structured scholarly page serves some careers and is overkill for others. Here is the honest split.
Build one if you
- +Are on the academic job market and need a citable record a search committee can read in one place.
- +Are a graduate student or postdoc building visibility for your research and teaching.
- +Want a home for the research narrative and teaching that an ORCID or Scholar profile cannot hold.
- +Want a domain you keep as you move between institutions, with the CV always in sync.
Choose another route if you
- −Are leaving academia for industry, where a results-led resume and a minimalist or developer page serve better than a publication list.
- −Have no publications or teaching yet. A short scholar page is fine, but do not stretch thin material into a formal structure.
- −Only need the departmental profile your institution already maintains for you.
- −Work in a field where the visual output is the point, where an image-led page suits the work better.
Building an academic page.
The questions scholars ask before they put up a site.
What should an academic portfolio include?
A short bio and research interests, a full publication list in a single consistent citation style, a teaching and supervision section, and the CV as a download, in roughly that order. Add grants, talks, and service if they are substantial. The point is a legible, complete record a search committee can read quickly, not a marketing page.
How should I format the publication list?
Group by type, journal articles, book chapters, conference papers, and list reverse chronological within each group. Use one citation style throughout, the convention of your field, and give every entry a stable link such as a DOI. Consistency matters more than the particular style you pick, because inconsistency in a publication list reads as carelessness.
Do I still need a CV if I have a website?
Yes. Search committees still ask for the PDF, so offer the full CV as a one-click download from the same content that builds the page. Keeping both from a single source means the site and the document never drift apart, which is the usual failure when they are maintained separately.
Should I list preprints and work under review?
Yes, clearly labelled as preprints or under review. Recent work signals an active researcher, and honest labelling is the norm. The only mistake is presenting a preprint as a published paper. Mark the status plainly and link to the repository copy so a reader can check it.
Which design looks right for an academic site?
A quiet, serif, single-column design such as Monograph, with generous margins. A long publication list wants a page that gets out of its way, not one that decorates it. Bold and image-led designs read as showy in a scholarly context and slow down the committee reading fastest, so leave those for a different kind of portfolio.
Keep going.
Compare styles, see what belongs in the sections, or read the full product.
Paste a CV.
Publish the record.
Start free. Portfolio drafts a bio, a publication list, and a teaching section from your CV, then you set one citation style, add stable links, and choose a quiet serif design. Publish to a domain you keep across institutions.