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Hyperlink references to google scholar profiles do not work, using \href

\href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ&hl}{Albert Einstein}

Produces:

hl## Albert Einstein

Not a clickable "Albert Einstein that leads to https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ&hl.

See larger example latex code below:

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{parskip} %other packages for formatting \RequirePackage{color} \RequirePackage{graphicx} \usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames]{xcolor} \usepackage[scale=0.9]{geometry} %tabularx environment \usepackage{tabularx} %for lists within experience section \usepackage{enumitem} % centered version of 'X' col. type \newcolumntype{C}{>{\centering\arraybackslash}X} %to prevent spillover of tabular into next pages \usepackage{supertabular} \usepackage{tabularx} \newlength{\fullcollw} \setlength{\fullcollw}{0.47\textwidth} %custom \section \usepackage{titlesec} \usepackage{multicol} \usepackage{multirow} %CV Sections inspired by: %http://stefano.italians.nl/archives/26 \titleformat{\section}{\Large\scshape\raggedright}{}{0em}{}[\titlerule] \titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{10pt}{10pt} %Setup hyperref package, and colours for links \usepackage[unicode, draft=false]{hyperref} \definecolor{linkcolour}{rgb}{0,0.2,0.6} \hypersetup{colorlinks,breaklinks,urlcolor=linkcolour,linkcolor=linkcolour} %for academic icons \usepackage{academicons} %for social icons \usepackage{fontawesome5} \begin{document} % non-numbered pages \pagestyle{empty} \begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{@{} C @{}} \Huge{Prof. Albert Einstein} \\[7.5pt] \href{https://github.com/a-einstien}{\raisebox{-0.05\height}\faGithub\ a-einstein} \ $|$ \ \href{https://www.linkedin.com/in/albert-einstein-9b2753a3/}{\raisebox{-0.05\height}\faLinkedin\ Albert Einstein} \ $|$ \ \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ&hl}{\raisebox{-0.05\height}\aiGoogleScholar Albert Einstein} \end{tabularx} \end{document}
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    try without the &hl (or provide a proper test example) Commented Feb 15, 2023 at 16:17
  • @DavidCarlisle not completely sure what you meant. However, I have provided a more in depth example of the latex code. Commented Feb 15, 2023 at 19:23
  • Your URL ends in &hl which is not needed and removing it avoids the special & , scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ is the same page As I suspected, but you did not show, you had & in a tabular.... Commented Feb 15, 2023 at 20:00
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    Welcome TeX.SE Martin David Grunnill. What David Carlisle meant is to use \href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ}{Albert Einstein} (notice the absence of &hl and I just checked, it makes no difference: same page) Commented Feb 15, 2023 at 20:02

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You get the error

! Forbidden control sequence found while scanning use of \href@split. <inserted text> \par l.63 \end{tabularx}

After any error the PDF is not intended to be usable.

Here you can simply use

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ

as it links to the same page and avoids & In cases where you need & in the URL and you are in a context like tabularx where \href can not make & safe, use \& so

\href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ}{\raisebox{-0.05\height}\aiGoogleScholar Albert Einstein}

or

\href{https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=qc6CJjYAAAAJ\&hl}{\raisebox{-0.05\height}\aiGoogleScholar Albert Einstein}
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