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Zotero plugin for auto-fetching citation counts from various sources

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Zotero Citation Counts Manager

This is an add-on for Zotero, a research source management tool. The add-on can auto-fetch citation counts for journal articles using various APIs, including Crossref, Inspire HEP, NASA/ADS (astrophysics data system), and Semantic Scholar. (Google Scholar is not supported because automated access is againts its terms of service.)

Please report any bugs, questions, or feature requests in the Github repository.

Code for this extension is based on the Zotero DOI Manager, which is based in part Zotero Google Scholar Citations by Anton Beloglazov.

Plugin Functions

  • Get citation counts: For the selected items, look up citation counts (replacing stored citation counts, if any) and tag results with the current date.

Installing

  • Run Zotero (version 5.x)
  • Go to Tools -> Add-ons
  • Install Add-on From File
  • Choose the file zotero-citationcounts-0.1.0.xpi
  • Restart Zotero

License

Distributed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL) Version 2.0.