Upgrade StorageForward and reverse citations lookups
When reading a paper I often import a fair portion of
a) The papers cited in the paper's bibliography (reverse citation lookup)
b) The papers citing the paper (forward citation lookup)
Right now the process is a bit manual - and there are some pros to that. For one, I don't just indiscriminately grab everything, but find it pays to be selective.
a) I annotate the paper's bibliography in a pdf reader. Then I make a note with the most important cited paper titles; I then manually search and import each document with google scholar. Upon review of these documents, I turn the note into a lightly annotated bibliography.
For b), I manually copy the paper's title into Scholar and review its citing papers. I gather the most important citing papers, review their abstracts, and them import them; I then further review the full-texts and make an annotated list of these documents.
I typically gather both annotated lists into the paper's individual notes document - This process can be a bit slow and needlessly manual. It would be nice to be able to
i) invoke a bibliography lookup service directly from a zotero item
ii) auto-lookup a zotero item in a forward citation service like google scholar, citeseerx, google patents, etc
iii) automatically generate the annotated bibliography stubs following step i) or ii)
I would not mind working towards this goal. Would any devs be interested in being a sponsor/mentor this project? I could use a clever brain in a jar to help me brainstorm how to attack this problem ;)
a) The papers cited in the paper's bibliography (reverse citation lookup)
b) The papers citing the paper (forward citation lookup)
Right now the process is a bit manual - and there are some pros to that. For one, I don't just indiscriminately grab everything, but find it pays to be selective.
a) I annotate the paper's bibliography in a pdf reader. Then I make a note with the most important cited paper titles; I then manually search and import each document with google scholar. Upon review of these documents, I turn the note into a lightly annotated bibliography.
For b), I manually copy the paper's title into Scholar and review its citing papers. I gather the most important citing papers, review their abstracts, and them import them; I then further review the full-texts and make an annotated list of these documents.
I typically gather both annotated lists into the paper's individual notes document - This process can be a bit slow and needlessly manual. It would be nice to be able to
i) invoke a bibliography lookup service directly from a zotero item
ii) auto-lookup a zotero item in a forward citation service like google scholar, citeseerx, google patents, etc
iii) automatically generate the annotated bibliography stubs following step i) or ii)
I would not mind working towards this goal. Would any devs be interested in being a sponsor/mentor this project? I could use a clever brain in a jar to help me brainstorm how to attack this problem ;)
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Given its incredibly strict bot policies, I'm pretty sure Google Scholar isn't going to prove a viable strategy.
- Scholar search lets me get to the forward citations in just a few clicks (much better than copying/pasting, and I can select multiple items)
- Writing a basic search plugin for MS Academic is a nice low-hanging fruit for a first zotero contribution (should probably send a PR to @bwiernik's zotero-tools when I'm done).
- In general I'm quite surprised about the quality, usability and openness of MSA; the Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) could be a valuable resource for broader citation graph work
- The Open Citations Corpus lets me find both forward AND backwards citations; @zuphilip's plugin it could become my go-to for extracting backwards citations; the COCI ontology and corpus is very exciting!