Identifier finds the wrong literature from ISSN number

kristinardottir · January 30, 2018

It has happened multiple times that when I search in the identifier by ISSN number, Zotero finds the wrong source/document, even one with a completely different ISSN number registered in its metadata. What might I be doing wrong here?

bwiernik · January 30, 2018

That feature does not support ISSN numbers, only ISBN, DOI, and PubMed ID (I suspect that it is treating the ISSN numbers as PubMed IDs).

kristinardottir · January 30, 2018

That would explain it! Thanks!

LiborA · January 31, 2018

ISSN is identifacator of serial publication as journals etc. No search engine can be able find document by the ISSN due to a a lot of documents with the same ISSN.

adamsmith · January 31, 2018

well, we could import the whole journal -- currently as a book, once we have a suitable item type as a periodical. Not sure if that's worth it, though. We'll definitely try to be stricted about PMIDs.

LiborA · January 31, 2018

I am not sure if this is a good idea. Books are published in series too. For example, EEA Reports are divided into a lot of series. My institution published books in three different series, etc.