Number of citations, starring
Hello,
First of all, thank you for Zotero!!
I use Zotero to search the state-of-the-art and often gather a lot of articles before actually starting reading them. To help me prioritize articles to read, it would be nice if I could have access to the number of citations of each article, possibly in an additional field. The number of citations is pretty helpful in Google Scholar to help spot influencial papers and it would be nice if Zotero integrated this feature as well.
Also, for the same purpose of classifying/prioritizing papers, a little "starring" feature would be nice. It would really help explore one's library.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
First of all, thank you for Zotero!!
I use Zotero to search the state-of-the-art and often gather a lot of articles before actually starting reading them. To help me prioritize articles to read, it would be nice if I could have access to the number of citations of each article, possibly in an additional field. The number of citations is pretty helpful in Google Scholar to help spot influencial papers and it would be nice if Zotero integrated this feature as well.
Also, for the same purpose of classifying/prioritizing papers, a little "starring" feature would be nice. It would really help explore one's library.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
There is a google citations plugin for Zotero, though it uses the call-number field, which isn't necessarily recommended.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/zotero-scholar-citations/
Regarding the Call Number field: if there is a way to add custom columns in the recent versions of Zotero, I'm ready to update the add-on to make use of that instead of the Call Number field. If it's available, please let me know where I can find documentation on that.
https://github.com/beloglazov/zotero-scholar-citations/raw/master/builds/zotero-scholar-citations-1.8-fx.xpi
Yet, I think I'll criticise the change of now writing the call number in the "extra" field. I understand this has been requested to enable vieweing it in a column (which is certainly interesting), but I find the overwriting of the previous information in the "extra" field a terrible (and kind of dangerous) idea. I think a tool should not introduce such a risk of loosing information, and this does! It took me a while to notice and luckily I didn't "batch-update" my references.
Wouldn't it be possible to...:
a) Add the call number string without overwriting the previous information? (at the beginning or at the end of the field)
b)Provide some kind of settings menu or file to define the desired behaviour?
c) If not, provide separate plugin files, one keeping the "old" behaviour?
By now, I think I'm switching back to v1.7 :-(
Best regards, and in any case, thanks for your work!
Martin
I also just saw that I'm not the only one "unhappy" (not in a bad way ;-) with this issue, and that in fact you are aware of it and thinking of changing it and introducing a configuration option. That would be great!
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. Yes, I'm planning to add a configuration option to allow people to select the field they want to use for storing citations. Unfortunately, I haven't had time yet to work on the plugin. I'll try to do it in the nearest future.
Best regards,
Anton
I've changed the logic of updating the Extra field:
- if it's empty, the number of citations is set
- if it's non-empty but only contains the number of citations, the number of citations is updated
- if it's non-empty and contains data other than the number of citations, the number of citations is prepended to the existing data
This way the existing data do not get overwritten, and the option for selecting the field is not required.
Best regards!
Martin
I browsed through the forums but didn't find anything relevant other than installing the plugin for Zotero standalone and Zotero firefox. Can someone help please?
Thank you in advance.
I was just asking myself the exact same initial question and wasnt able to find something.
Change the "maxVersion" line for "zotero@chnm.gmu.edu" here:
https://github.com/beloglazov/zotero-scholar-citations/blob/master/install.rdf
to "5.0.x", then put all of the files in a .zip folder, and change the extension to .xpi.