Filtering articles by institution

tmragan
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How does one search for an article by the author's institution? That is, how can I filter my library to show all papers from say, Carnegie Mellon?

I added a paper from a group at MIT a while ago and I having trouble finding it as I've forgotten the title and author.

Thanks for assistance.
  • adamsmith
    You can't -- Zotero doesn't systematically (or typically at all) store affiliations
  • tim820
    edited June 14, 2025
    There are no fields in the Journal Article item type to record the individual authors' institution(s). Only for single author item types like theses and a few others (eg Report).

    But there are several ways you can manually record research group information that is searchable:
    1. Put it in the Extra field (maybe best avoided, as it's used for other things).
    2. Add a child note to the item, with a single line naming the research group.

    You could also create an Advanced/Saved Search for:
    (a) named members/authors from the research group;
    (b) the Extra field/Child Note contents if that's where you saved the research group's name;
    (c) Attachment Content contains "centre/lab/institution name", if the research group name usually appears in their (PDF) attachment files.
  • tmragan
    Thanks for the feedback. I appreciate it.
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