SigmaCV — a free, open-source academic-CV builder powered by OpenAlex

[basile chretien]

Hi all,

I wanted to share a tool I've built on top of OpenAlex, in case it's useful to this community: SigmaCV (https://sigmacv.org) — a free, open-source (Apache-2.0) academic-CV builder. It turns a researcher's ORCID iD into a clean, up-to-date CV, with OpenAlex as the primary works source (polite pool, mailto set), and exports to PDF, LaTeX, DOCX, BibTeX, CSL-JSON, JSON Resume and NIH biosketch from one canonical record.

Two design choices that lean on OpenAlex's strengths: authorship is matched by identifier (ORCID / OpenAlex ID), never by name string — robust to common names and non-Latin scripts — and metrics are opt-in and field-normalized (DORA-aligned), never h-index by default. It's self-hostable and privacy-first (per-field publish consent, full export, deletion), and public CVs are machine-readable (schema.org JSON-LD, content-negotiated CSL-JSON/BibTeX).

Feedback very welcome — and thanks to the OpenAlex team for making this possible.

Basile Chrétien · Maintainer, SigmaCV — https://sigmacv.org · ORCID 0000-0002-7483-2489