Google Scholar lookup engine takes first creator, should take author for book chapters
If you have a book chapter with Editor and Author, and editor is listed first, then the Google Scholar Search lookup engine will take the editor and plug it into the Google Scholar search string, with the result that nothing is found.
So this will not locate the chapter in question on Google Scholar:
Item Type: Book Section
Title: Define and Indefinite
Editor: Brown, Keith
Author: Abbott, Barbara
Date: 2006
Whereas this will:
Item Type: Book Section
Title: Define and Indefinite
Author: Abbott, Barbara
Editor: Brown, Keith
Date: 2006
The only difference being the order of Editor and Author fields in Zotero.
This is probably not limited to Google Scholar Search, but I haven't checked others.
Proposal: Lookup engines should take the first "Author"-type creator field when searching.
So this will not locate the chapter in question on Google Scholar:
Item Type: Book Section
Title: Define and Indefinite
Editor: Brown, Keith
Author: Abbott, Barbara
Date: 2006
Whereas this will:
Item Type: Book Section
Title: Define and Indefinite
Author: Abbott, Barbara
Editor: Brown, Keith
Date: 2006
The only difference being the order of Editor and Author fields in Zotero.
This is probably not limited to Google Scholar Search, but I haven't checked others.
Proposal: Lookup engines should take the first "Author"-type creator field when searching.
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I don't see how that could cause problems (on the contrary, I think that's preferable for all openURL requests, as mark suggests above)