Frequently Asked Questions
Please contact me if you cannot find an answer to your question.
This site provides you access to three related word cloud generators: Scholar Googler, Semantic Scholar Googler, and Pubmed Cloud, free of charge. These are visually appealing ways to summarize your research publications. That's it. That's the whole purpose.
If you generated your cloud in a web browser on a computer (e.g. Chrome), you should be able to download the image by right-clicking and selecting Save Image As. If this option is not available on the device you are using (e.g. on a phone or tablet) then a screenshot is currently your best option. Hopefully this will be improved soon.
Two of the most common reasons a specific ID isn't working are
- The Google Scholar profile is not public. This site only works with public profiles. This is a common problem but an easy fix. Change the settings in your Google Scholar profile to make it publicly visible.
- You specified the ID in the wrong format. The easiest way to specify your ID is to enter the entire URL from the main page you see in Google Scholar when you click "my profile". You should see the word citations somewhere in the URL. Here's an example.
Yes and no. This app cannot currently generate clouds in any shape other than those provided in the menu. There is an option to export and download your word counts. This allows you to use a more flexible online word cloud generator such as the one at wordart.com
If you want specific genes (or any words) in uppercase or mixed case, this can be accomplished by specifying them in the desired case. For example, to see microRNA, CCND1 and NHL, simply add those to the box labeled Repair uppercase.
The cloud might be empty because your Google Scholar page doesn't have a sufficient number of entries to encounter duplicate words.
If there are too many words, the cloud generator (dumbly) makes a cloud bigger than the canvas. In lieu of fixing this issue, I've provided a zoom bar. In most cases, you can fix this by reducing the zoom setting (i.e. zoom out) and regenerating the cloud.
In some cases, your most commonly used (largest) words will not appear in your cloud. If you suspect this is happening, try reducing the setting on the zoom bar to a lower value.
If your name is not uniquely searchable in PubMed then we don't have a way to deal with this. Your best option is to use either the Scholar Googler or Semantic Scholar Googler app instead.
I'm happy to consider feature requests that would lead to a better and more versatile application. You can submit feature requests using the contact link at the bottom of the page. Your donations will also help ensure we can handle feature requests.
This site is not affiliated with Google in any way.
Most of the palettes are from https://github.com/morinlab/moroncolours or https://github.com/BlakeRMills/MetBrewer. More details on how they were created can be found on the GitHub repositories.
A common issue is the plural version of a word showing up separately from the root word. There is an option to depluralize any such words. In the corresponding box, enter the plural form of the word you want grouped with its root.
Yes! If you have Rstudio, you can install from the source code and run the site yourself.
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