Can I track how many times I've cited an item?

Just wondering if there is anyway to track how many times I've cited an item in my Zotero?
  • In a document or globally?
  • Globally, if I'm understanding you correctly. I searched for a column in the collections view that would, for example, show a numeric value for how many times I had cited the articles and books visible in the collection that was selected. I had already read, tagged and highlighted all the books and articles in the collection and wanted to check if there were any I hadn't cited.
  • Not possible, nor apparently likely in the future, unless a plugin were to do it.
    https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73603/does-zotero-keep-track-usage-of-entries-in-bibliographies

    Current possible approaches could include adding a manual tag to each item as you cite it (binary), or increment a cited number in an item note, or for a single collection/paper you could move items to a 'cited' subcollection as you cite them.
  • edited 7 days ago
    Thanks for the info and pointing me to that thread.

    A possible solution that was wasn't mentioned in that forum thread is for the counts to be calculated when the refresh is used in the zotero document plugin. That would produce a more accurate count as it would avoid missing citations that were later deleted, pasted, etc, given that refreshing is necessary as a document reaches its final drafts.
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