Identifier finds the wrong literature from ISSN number

kristinardottir
It has happened multiple times that when I search in the identifier by ISSN number, Zotero finds the wrong source/document, even one with a completely different ISSN number registered in its metadata. What might I be doing wrong here?
  • bwiernik
    That feature does not support ISSN numbers, only ISBN, DOI, and PubMed ID (I suspect that it is treating the ISSN numbers as PubMed IDs).
  • kristinardottir
    That would explain it! Thanks!
  • LiborA
    ISSN is identifacator of serial publication as journals etc. No search engine can be able find document by the ISSN due to a a lot of documents with the same ISSN.
  • adamsmith
    well, we could import the whole journal -- currently as a book, once we have a suitable item type as a periodical. Not sure if that's worth it, though. We'll definitely try to be stricted about PMIDs.
  • LiborA
    I am not sure if this is a good idea. Books are published in series too. For example, EEA Reports are divided into a lot of series. My institution published books in three different series, etc.

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