Problem with Google Scholar?

sdspieg
The past couple of weeks I frequently have a problem whereby Zotero only 'sees' a few of the results from Google Scholar. For instance the following query http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=christina+gradl+business+development&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=2012 only allows me to save ONE out of FIVE hits. Can somebody replicate this problem and - better yet - figure out what the issue might be? Thanks.

-Stephan
  • adamsmith
    what set-up? Works for me.
  • sdspieg
    Firefox 21.0, Zotero 4.0.8 on Win 7. And I also replicated it on another Win 8 machine. When I click on the 'Select Items' folder-icon, it only shows me ONE hit (the third one: "Marketing to the Base"). Can you select all 5?
  • dstillman
    I can reproduce this in one profile, and get all five in another profile. Former shows "Cite"; latter shows "Import into BibTeX". So maybe cookie related?
  • adamsmith
    import and select all five, yes.
    The GS translator needs cookies to work correctly. If you're using some "don't remember history" setting in FF that would prevent this from working correctly.
  • dstillman
    I have "Remember history" set in the profile where this isn't working.
  • sdspieg
    http://tinypic.com/r/2z3p8iq/5 Anything wrong there?
  • sdspieg
    I changed the setting to 'Never remember history', restarted and ... still no cigar...
  • aurimas
    Your settings are fine. I can reproduce this.

    The problem is that when BibTeX links are disabled (you can enable them at http://scholar.google.com/scholar_settings on the bottom under Bibliography Manager) Zotero tries to construct the links from Related Articles links (the other links do not have the required info). I have never seen articles that do not contain the "Related Articles" links, but obviously you've found some. If you look, only 1 of the articles contains the link.

    The immediate workaround would be to enable the BibTeX links as per above.

    In the long run, I might have to rethink the optimization I described above. This was done to avoid an additional HTTP request (actually a whole page load) to Google. We might want to revert to refreshing the page after enabling BibTeX if some of the links are missing the "Related Articles" link.
  • sdspieg
    Bingo! That was it. Thanks much Aurimas. I guess I should have noticed that only one had related articles. But so that solves this problem! You guys are just fantastic...
  • coolishen
    I would also like to add a BIG UP to aurimas - you eradicated a long annoyance for me. :)
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