Cannot import an XML file from PubMed

Hi, I'm trying to import citations from this page:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/dianne.newman.1/bibliography/40602411/public/?sort=date&direction=ascending

I click Send To and select File, and then under Format I select XML. However, this XML file can't be read by Zotero. I suspect that Pubmed is exporting this in a different XML than its standard citations, but if someone could verify for me that this is not an importable format, I would much appreciate it (before I contact Pubmed about it).

And yes, I did try the Zotero Connector instead, but it only recognized 91 of the 133 citations.

Thanks for any assistance!
  • Yes, that's correct; the XML format is completely different from regular Pubmed XML and we can't import it, sorry.
    I don't think this is a PubMed bug, by the way -- the format I think is chosen purposefully here to serve a different purpose.

    The 91 out of 133 -- Zotero can only import the hyperlinked citations, which are the ones actually in (or taken from?) Pubmed. Even if we created an importer for the other XML format (which we likely won't), the info that's exported for those items isn't detailed enough to import anything meaningful.
  • Gotcha - thanks for the verification and explanation! Cheers!
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