Automatic relation establishment for PDFs

ojjohnson2
Hi,

I am a new user of Zotero. One of the features that seems powerful in my short period of use so far is the "Related"/"Relations" feature, especially with a my current workflow. However, adding these in manually can quickly become time consuming when some review have nearly 300 individual references.

Is there a plugin that can automatically add these relations by analysing the bibliography of imported PDFs? I've spent a good while looking but haven't had any luck so far

Thanks!
  • tim820
    edited 2 days ago
    The Reference plugin can do that. But there are some reasons why it may not work perfectly. It needs to find the paper's reference list from online repositories where journal publishers upload them, and those are not always complete. It then compares the ref list it finds to your library, looking for matches based on DOI (so your library has to have those for all the cited refs). It can be set to Relate those with DOI matches to the current paper.

    For cited references you don't have in your library, you can click to get it to take you to their URL so you can download them, via the Zotero web connector.

    It can also show you a list of papers that have cited the current paper. And take you to their URLs.

    The documentation is somewhat out of date, and in Chinese. You may need to get Google Lens to translate the settings page. But you learn how to use it mostly by using it. It's very powerful.
    https://github.com/MuiseDestiny/zotero-reference
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