Hello. After a busy day of researching and importing I often have a nice long list of duplicates. Any way to do a one-click merge for all of them? Thanks IMF
it'd be so great if this became an actual function, it's been raised a bunch of times.
@marcielparciak wrote a javascript code that effectively just runs the Merge function 100 times (so, at least for me, it'll stop well before it gets to 100 depending on how well behaved the duplicates pane is...)
var DupPane = Zotero.getZoteroPanes(); for(var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 1000)); DupPane[0].mergeSelectedItems(); Zotero_Duplicates_Pane.merge(); }
I hope that after you use auto-merge that you carefully verify each record in your Zotero library. Especially for systematic reviews and meta-analyses, bibliographic accuracy and precision are paramount. I don't mean this as an insult but there is a fine line between saving time and sloppy work.
Many of these items are already in Zotero. But when adding the items into a new collection, Zotero doesn't check if they already exist. This results in duplicates. Because I took the time to merge all other duplicates before doing this, I could browser over identical titles and safely (auto-) merge them.
Any other faster way of merging these duplicates with the counterparts already in Zotero would be very helpful!
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@marcielparciak wrote a javascript code that effectively just runs the Merge function 100 times (so, at least for me, it'll stop well before it gets to 100 depending on how well behaved the duplicates pane is...)
var DupPane = Zotero.getZoteroPanes();
for(var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 1000));
DupPane[0].mergeSelectedItems();
Zotero_Duplicates_Pane.merge();
}
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/68501/merge-auto-function
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/40457/merge-all-duplicates
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/29381/merging-many-duplicates-in-zotero-standalone
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/50221/accept-all-duplicates
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/31565/how-do-i-merge-12-000-duplicates
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/36391/tips-for-speeding-up-duplicate-merging
My use case though is a different one: I'm adding references from my own articles that were written with Mendely into a Zotero collection for each article, using https://anystyle.io/ or https://rintze.zelle.me/ref-extractor/
Many of these items are already in Zotero. But when adding the items into a new collection, Zotero doesn't check if they already exist. This results in duplicates. Because I took the time to merge all other duplicates before doing this, I could browser over identical titles and safely (auto-) merge them.
Any other faster way of merging these duplicates with the counterparts already in Zotero would be very helpful!