abstract is not added while adding citations in bulk from google scholar.

drawaisahmed01
dear friends,

please let me know it anyone can help on this, i am trying to download the citation in bulk from google scholar but zotero is not copying it's abstract, remaining things are adding up. While doing it one by one it does add abstract also. kindly help in this regard.

thanks.
  • bwiernik
    Google Scholar does not have abstracts in its metadata, so you won’t ever get them when importing from google scholar (and the metadata are often poor in other ways too, so I don’t recommend exporting from Google Scholar as a general rule).
  • drawaisahmed01
    can you please guide me about those research databases that have abstracts in metadata???

    thanks/
  • adamsmith
    Normally, just clicking through to articles you're interested in and importing from the publisher works particularly well.

    Disciplinary databases like PubMed are often very good. If you have access through your institution, both Scopus and Web of Science have abstracts.
  • MattJIrish
    I know this thread is 4 years old, but it was so helpful! I found it through a Google search.

    So I guess if you build a reading list, it's better to click each article separately to find the citation file (BibTeX, RIS, etc) and import it from their website, if they have that function, so you might get the abstract and DOI in your Zotero list, not just the basics like title and author.
  • emilianoeheyns
    You shouldn't have to, Zotero will generally find the best source to import automatically from the website you're on. It's just that if you use google scholar, that best source won't have abstracts. On publisher sites, clicking the import button should do the right thing.
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