ikashnitsky Mar 15 2019 at 05:47

Zotero hacks: unlimited synced storage and its smooth use with rmarkdown

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Open source *R *Studying in IT Data storaging Lifehacks for geeks

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KirutNdert Mar 21 2019 at 01:17

Zotero also has a possibility automatically fetches numbers of citations of your Zotero items from Google Scholar and makes it possible to sort your items by the citations. Moreover, it allows batch updating the citations, as they may change over time. Github.

ikashnitsky Mar 21 2019 at 01:19

This sounds very cool. Can you explain a bit more how to batch update the bibliographic data?

KirutNdert Mar 21 2019 at 14:52

It is covered on Github, you will have a special option in a dropdown menu. In my case, for 100-200 sources, (as I could see from Github issues page — not only in mine) I coud not update citations, but in 2 days issue was self-fixed. I think it is related to a Google Scholar limitation of requests — you should wait some time to give addon a time window to update all your sources. It works for me and many other users, I hope this open-source addon will be more stable with time.

ikashnitsky Mar 21 2019 at 18:22

Is it possible to grab the information not form GS but via DOI from CrossRef? (just like the magic wand button in Zotero)
GS metadata is often quite incomplete.

beeduino May 23 2020 at 11:19

Thanks for the article.
How best to convert an existing 300Mb storage to this new scheme?

ikashnitsky Jun 8 2020 at 11:25

Thanks. I'd try first the extract metadata from pdf option. And then the remaining by doi

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