Identify most cited author(s)

cm3236

Is there an easy way to sort my Zotero library according to the authors who are most prevalent? In other words, I want to quickly identify which author has the most references (citations) within my library without any a priori knowledge of who that individual is. I would prefer a sorted list of authors, but the most common author would be a start.

Thanks!

irallia

I would have the same request!

And I would add 'Identify my most cited papers'. Are there papers that appear in several references of the papers I have read? Are papers cited by other of my papers?

irallia

There are 3 goals I have:
On the one hand, I would like to evaluate the literature I have read, according to whether it is frequently cited by other papers.
I want to read papers that are often cited as references from my previous read papers.
I want to know authors who have co-written many of the papers I've read in order to read their other papers.

I have all the papers in PDF format and can also remove attachments.

adamsmith

There's nothing built into Zotero.

There's a plugin to look up google scholar citation counts listed here: https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins

And a different one using CrossRef data (which is less complete but provides a more robust query interface) here: https://twitter.com/eschnett/status/1310753315584708610

To analyze things like author counts, currently the only way is to export to .csv and use the statistical tool of your choice.

irallia

Thank you, that could help me at least partially :)