HAL focuses on displaying research publications from the HAL open archive on a WordPress site. It is catalogued under Reference management & literature discovery on PulseGate.

HAL is a B2B product built for wordPress site owners and academic researchers.

What platforms does HAL run on?

HAL runs on the web and embeddable surfaces.

Unverified. HAL has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.

What projects are similar to HAL?

Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Roget's II, Rafım, and 13 Autonome.

HAL is developed by Baptiste Blondelle.

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HAL

Name: HAL
Author: Baptiste Blondelle

wordpress.orgReference management & literature discovery

HAL is a WordPress plugin that retrieves publications from the HAL open archive and displays them on websites. It supports authors, organizations, collections, and research projects through widgets and shortcodes.

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Overview

6 features

In the Reference management & literature discovery space, HAL takes a focused approach. It focuses on displaying research publications from the HAL open archive on a WordPress site. HAL is a B2B product aimed at wordPress site owners and academic researchers. HAL is free to use. HAL is available on the web and embeddable surfaces.

Baptiste Blondelle builds and maintains HAL, and it first shipped in 2014. Among its 6 catalogued features are publication retrieval, author filtering, and entity filtering. It exposes integrations via a public API.

Summary written by a language model from the project’s public pages.

Publication retrieval
Author filtering
Entity filtering
Widget settings
Shortcodes
Global parameters

Built with & integrations

Connectors

API

Runs on

BrowserEmbeddable

Trust & compliance

Verified signals

HTTPSPrivacy PolicyFree tier

Legal

Indexing history

What PulseGate has recorded for this listing

Indexed9 Sept · 00:15 UTC
HAL verified via WordPress Plugins
Source: WordPress Plugins · Open

Frequently asked questions about HAL

What is HAL?: HAL focuses on displaying research publications from the HAL open archive on a WordPress site. It is catalogued under Reference management & literature discovery on PulseGate.
Who should use HAL?: HAL is a B2B product built for wordPress site owners and academic researchers.
Is HAL free?: Yes — HAL is free to use.
What platforms does HAL run on?: HAL runs on the web and embeddable surfaces.
Is HAL still active?: Unverified. HAL has not been re-checked since it entered the index, so there is no finding either way — and only a positive finding would say otherwise.
What projects are similar to HAL?: Similar projects tracked by PulseGate include Roget's II, Rafım, and 13 Autonome.Roget's II Rafım 13 Autonome
Who develops HAL?: HAL is developed by Baptiste Blondelle.
How long has HAL been around?: HAL first shipped in 2014.

At a glance

Pricing: Free
Platforms: Web
Languages: English
First seen: 9 Sept 2026
Built for: WordPress site owners and academic researchers
Model: B2B
Solves: Displaying research publications from the HAL open archive on a WordPress site.

Registered as

WordPress.org: hal

Developer

Baptiste Blondelle

Index record

Indexed: 9 Sept 2026
Lifecycle: Alive
First seen: Sept 2026
Last seen: 9 Sept 2026

Identity audit (13)

Slug: hal-wordpress-org
Lifecycle state recorded: 9 Sept 2026
Verification state: Indexed for public listing
Listing state: Listed: yes
Index status: Included in index
Latest evidence snapshot: 9 Sept 2026
Timeline basis: Indexed-at chronology (no inferred launch/funding milestones).
Name from: Derived from the project's own page and URL.
Category from: Assigned by a language model.
Summary from: Written by a language model from public pages.
Languages from: Detected by a language model, checked against the page's own declaration.
Last updated: 9 Sept 2026
Canonical URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/hal

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