Mendeley Suggestions
A friend of mine using Mendeley told me about an interesting feature--that it can suggest papers to you that you haven't read, based on your library.
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/web/05-mendeley-suggest
I was wondering whether Zotero may have a feature like this in the future, and also, how easy it would be for me to just train a Mendeley account to leverage this suggestion feature from my Zotero library, while still sticking with Zotero.
Thanks!
https://www.mendeley.com/guides/web/05-mendeley-suggest
I was wondering whether Zotero may have a feature like this in the future, and also, how easy it would be for me to just train a Mendeley account to leverage this suggestion feature from my Zotero library, while still sticking with Zotero.
Thanks!
For the second question, Mendeley has a feature that will sync with the Zotero library, so you can just use Zotero for all practical purposes but keep the library in sync with Mendeley, which will then produce recommendations.
If you have access to scholarly databases (which you need in any case to be able to read the papers) you can easily beat any recommendation service today. When you read a paper, grab all the citations that matter to you. If you follow through with just a few branches of this effort, your library will grow in leaps and bounds.
To stay on top of new research, my favorite tool is using Google Scholar to send email alerts. You can create as many alerts as you want, and use boolean logic (OR, AND). There might be other features, but just the basic stuff is pretty good. I have about 6 alerts and get an email for each alert about twice/week.
But obviously they´re a supplement, not a substitute for traditional literature searches when working on a topic in depth.
Indeed, it is something very useful in modern science to have a list of recent (and also non recent) papers that are not in your library. I know that aggregation of these data is dangerous privacy-wise, but please work out a solution :)
It would be nice to see something like that in zotero, also the birds eye view in arxiv-sanity is pretty neat.
Is anyone else here old enough to remember the time when all important data entry was followed by a re-entry verification step. This goes back to the punchcard era and there were machines exclusively designed to monitor the reentry verification step and kick-out pairs of cards that didn't match.
https://medium.com/researcher-app/new-on-researcher-zotero-integration-1b2a6d58cf4
Its a search engine too that you can integrate with your Zotero library but unfortunately only allows that "bookmarks are sent directly to your reference manager." If an external service could link Zotero repository and suggest alerts would be a nice integrations. Researcher app do not relates your Zotero library with your journal subscriptions but its nice to have that option: to add an article from a journal (as alert/notifications) to the Zotero library.
For someone doing research some "fresh news" could be the start of a new project or idea or just as an alert for you to keep up to date inside your research group and bump up the main theme of research.
There are topics in science that change by the semester or less, and there is no The Guardian or New York Times for that. For instance some research its kinda private and only sci hub allows a more generic access as you know. For that type of research i doubt that even Mendeley suggest articles because of its marketing that prioritises Elsevier search i guess.
(gas OR gasoline OR petrol OR diesel OR biodiesel OR CNG OR LNG) AND (car OR light-duty OR truck OR vehicle OR heavy-duty) AND (fuel OR emission OR pollution)
I get an email every few days with the latest research matching the alert criteria. I used to have multiple more specific alerts, but found that fewer but broader alerts are more manageable for me.
For historical articles, Mendeley's suggestion features make it easier. But almost equally easy and certainly more targeted is to simply jump to the references section of the most read (or your favorite) articles in your database. Just start from one article, and soon you will be branching out and adding a LOT ;)
If I had a wish, I would ask for a feature that can grab, in just a couple clicks, all the articles (at least ones with DOI) referenced in a PDF.