Display last Author

frank_roeller

Hi,

there is something, that would be of great use. Zotero displays things as Title, Creator, Year an so on and is able to sort it. Maybe it could be completed by "last author". I ask for this because in natural science the head of research group comes usually last and while someone publishes one or two articles from this group to a specific subject, the whole group often publishes way more over the years.
Of course some of you may say that it is possible to use folders, but i think others will understand that it is not the same.

i hope you think it is a good idea.

greetings

adamsmith

various existing threads on this e.g.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/51157/sorting-by-last-author
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/44270/sort-by-last-author/

bmangeat

Last author information is critical in life sciences fields, and displaying it would be required for many people to start using Zotero instead of other commercial applications. The threads mentioned above relate to sorting, but what is really lacking is a column with the last author being displayed. Thanks a lot

adamsmith

If you look at the ,linked issue it's for "Last Author column", i.e. display and sort. As the thread says, no eta though.

I'm curious about the commercial applications you mention though? I don't believe you can display last authors in Endnote, Refworks, or Mendeley, for example, and that's most of the commercial market.

dantedorazio

I found this thread while looking for ways to include last author in my automatic renaming of journal PDFs.

My solution was to use Better Bibtex (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/), which has native support for last authors in its citation key generator. Then I use Zotfile to automatically rename using the {%b} wildcard, which pulls in the citation key.

adamsmith

Last authors are natively available for renaming in Zotfile (q/Q, and u/U respectively are the wildcards; just not properly documented)