Upgrade StorageCitation count
In Zotero 5, is it possible to pull the citation count for an item (i.e. the "cited by X" from google scholar). Ideally I'd like this to go on it's own field which I can sort items by.
A long while ago when I first used Zotero as a browser plugin there was an add-on that did exactly this, but now can't find a way to do the same.
A long while ago when I first used Zotero as a browser plugin there was an add-on that did exactly this, but now can't find a way to do the same.
Though note that given google scholar's stricter bot detecting policies, I would expect you to get locked out of google scholar repeatedly when using it.
Looks like the original repo is no longer maintained, but found a fork that is actively maintained, and it seems to work well: https://github.com/MaxKuehn/zotero-scholar-citations
I'm at version 5.0.60.
https://github.com/MaxKuehn/zotero-scholar-citations
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I was wondering if you've considered trying to do this with lens.org. They base their dataset on Microsoft Academic, which is Bing indexed (as opposed to Google Scholar's google indexing). Their dataset is cleaner, though, because they also incorporate CrossRef. Not only do they not captcha, they have a free API. I'm comparing bibliometric data across multiple resources. google scholar's citation counts are considered highly questionable by experts in bibliometrics. When I did detailed some sample checking, I found citation counts inflated by counting the same paper's references multiple times just because it was posted to several websites (google failed to dedup) and citations off of undergraduate papers being counted. IMHO google scholar is our grandma's academic search engine. ;-) the one benefit I'm trying to reap here is that one of our flagship publications is not represented well in Lens or MicAc because our publications folks aren't posting it to crossref at the chapter level, which is how folks are citing it. I'm having to harvest the [citation] entries from GS to get proper citation counts, but that's our pub folks' fault and they will soon be fixing that.
It works for me on Zotero 5.0.95 and when updating citations in *small* batches (for the reasons given above!)
I find that getting the exact figure doesn't matter much to me - rather I want to know whether it's in the 10,000s or 10s.
https://github.com/smlum/zotero-scholar-citations
https://github.com/eschnett/zotero-citationcounts
I decided to switch to this plugin because thought these sources would be a bit more trustworthy, and I was getting persistent issues with Google locking me out of running the google scholar plugin due to too many requests.
Note that when switching between these two plugins, the Zutilo utility "Paste All Item Fields" can be used to mass-delete conents of the "Extra" field, as described here:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/96686/how-to-delete-in-mass-contents-of-a-field
Any thoughts?
How does it add/update this data? Via regex? A bit scary to let it write into the field that has other content. I guess I can try in a separate group/library. Or just live without it.
https://github.com/FrLars21/ZoteroCitationCountsManager