Sync Error: Long author list for countless papers

patel93
I have an issue with long author lists for many papers in multiple Zotero folders. Manually sorting through the author fields would take a great deal of time.

Does anyone know a way to automate/circumvent the syncing problem of papers that have many authors?

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I realize this is an old error to mention on this forum, but it seems so important that I can't believe it hasn't been correct thus far.
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/280209#Comment_280209
  • dstillman
    To be clear, this isn't a bug — it's a data import problem, usually caused by bad data exported from some website or tool. The desktop app allows you to import the data and fix it later, but the online library needs to have some limit on the length of fields.

    Where did you import this data from, and how exactly did you import it? E.g., saving that item from PubMed via the Zotero Connector imports the authors properly.
  • adamsmith
    (Almost certainly an OVID export -- you'll recall this keeps happening and we ought to try to detect it on RIS import.I think)
  • dstillman
    edited 2 days ago
    (Yeah, but I thought OVID (and maybe just PsycInfo via OVID?) was exporting invalid editor data, and we were going to just truncate it. These are valid authors from the paper that we wouldn't actually want to discard.)
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