Zotero saves Editorial Summary instead of Abstract for Nature
I am using zotero 5.0.89 with firefox 79.0. When grabbing references from Nature website, zotero will save the content of editorial summary into the 'abstract' field. Example:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03352
Anyone knows a solution? Thanks so much!
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03352
Anyone knows a solution? Thanks so much!
For Nature articles I check to see which summary has been imported and copy/past the other one thereby keeping both versions.
One solution I am thinking of is to use the DOI of each paper to find the corresponding item in Pubmed and then add the corresponding item from Pubmed into Zotero, which would have the correct 'Abstract' field.
Sounds pretty straightforward to implement, but I have no experience in Zotero scripting though. Could anyone provide some hints about how to do so?
Thanks!
You might be able to double-click on the article line in your Zotero collection and go to the article on the Nature website. There you can grab the summary/abstract you need -- a quick and easy maneuver I do many times a day.
No scripting involved on your end. My comment was to say that theoretically it might be possible to capture the abstract by significant changes to the translator. However, as Nature is inconsistent about which "summary" is in their metadata, any translator changes might not be especially useful.
Does Zotero provides an API to add items from Pubmed using DOI? I guess it has such function but couldn't find the corresponding function name.
I urge you to try grabbing the summary version you want from the Nature site. You will see that this can be accomplished very quickly and accurately. Even if you have several hundred Nature articles this shouldn't take a long time -- you should be able to whoosh through 7 or 8 articles a minute unless your internet connection is quite slow.
My sincere apologies if my suggestion is more annoying than helpful.
I was not annoyed at all. I see your points and agree that your way may be the faster route to the final results!