Upgrade StorageHow to add customized journal information ?
Dear Zotero users,
I belong to some research institution where we use Zotero to track and store academic production by our members. Almost every year, we need to construct some "research" or "scientific" report for one or the other administration that provide us with money.
In this context, we manually construct some statistics about published articles depending on the ranking of journals in which they appear. This requires (i) to take each article, (ii) to look for the corresponding journal in the dedicated ranking--externally provided by some administration--, and (iii) to report in a spreadsheet the rank (or whatever) of this journal.
I wonder whether it is possible or not to use some of Zotero's functionalities to ease the whole process?
In more general terms:
- I have a Zotero library where each item has a "Journal" identifier.
- I have an external spreadsheet--where each "Journal" is uniquely identified--that provides me some information on each jounal.
- Is it possible to add these information to the Zotero library? I.e., is it possible to "merge" the two data sources?
Thanks in advance to anyone who has some (useful) suggestion.
I belong to some research institution where we use Zotero to track and store academic production by our members. Almost every year, we need to construct some "research" or "scientific" report for one or the other administration that provide us with money.
In this context, we manually construct some statistics about published articles depending on the ranking of journals in which they appear. This requires (i) to take each article, (ii) to look for the corresponding journal in the dedicated ranking--externally provided by some administration--, and (iii) to report in a spreadsheet the rank (or whatever) of this journal.
I wonder whether it is possible or not to use some of Zotero's functionalities to ease the whole process?
In more general terms:
- I have a Zotero library where each item has a "Journal" identifier.
- I have an external spreadsheet--where each "Journal" is uniquely identified--that provides me some information on each jounal.
- Is it possible to add these information to the Zotero library? I.e., is it possible to "merge" the two data sources?
Thanks in advance to anyone who has some (useful) suggestion.
http://royce.kimmons.me/tutorials/zotero_to_excel
and then "merge" the excel files (i.e. use the ranking spreadsheet to assign the numbers to the relevant Zotero items. That should work relatively smoothly. There is no easy way, at this time, add that type of information to Zotero, so the final result would probably have to be in Excel.
If you really want to do this in Zotero, the way to go, I believe, would be to generate a mapping table in javascript for journal --> ranking and then use the javascript api
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api to import the ranking information into Zotero's "Extra" field (which can be included in citations), but that's a relatively involved solution.