References appearing that I did not add

birleym
I have acquired a large number of references that I did not add myself. Anyone experienced this?
  • noksagt
    In your library or in a group library?
    If in your library, the most likely explanations are either:
    • They were added by someone other than you on a shared machine
    • They were added by you, but perhaps not intentionally (either because you imported the wrong file or a translator isn't working as it should or a site is providing bad metadata)
  • adamsmith
    A sample reference you don't think you added, including what it has in the "Library Catalogue" field might help to shed more light on this.
  • birleym
    There were 578 references that have added. I believe some appeared when I added a journal article reference which was a review of many articles. I think it added all the references the journal article cited.
    It is in a group library, but I checked with my group. the articlecs are not relevant to our work. Here is an example, library catalog field is empty.

    Type Journal Article
    Author M. Abe
    Author J. Yaviong
    Author G. Taleo
    Author K. Ichimori
    URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80004-4
    Volume 97
    Publication Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
    Date 2003
    Journal Abbr Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
    DOI 10.1016/S0035-9203(03)80004-4
    Date Added 13/02/2016 18:59:29
    Modified 26/03/2016 09:42:11
  • adamsmith
    In the online version of the group library on zotero.org, you can see who added an item (there's an "added by" column). I'd start there.
  • birleym
    Very helpful to look at added by. But it just says me. So when I added one reference I got an additional 578. I'm guessing that sometimes there is an option to add not just the journal ref of interest but also all the refs it cites?
  • adamsmith
    edited March 28, 2016
    typically not without asking (and not when it's working correctly). The fact that this doesn't have a library catalog entry, though, suggests that you imported a data file rather than directly from the web (e.g. a pubmed XML file or an RIS fiel from a publisher.

    edit: yeah, see noksagt's question below. If you have an answer to that, we can almost certainly figure out what happened.
  • noksagt
    What was the one reference you meant to add and how did you add it?
  • birleym
    OK I think it was this one
    http://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1756-3305-5-69

    On closer inspection I think it has an export citations choice that exports all. But the article only has 36 citations.
    However, if this is common, I could have done it more than once
  • adamsmith
    yes, that makes sense. Use the Save to Zotero icon to avoid this from happening -- that imports only the actual reference (and with attached PDF).
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