Add an icon of "insert citation" and search paper more efficiently
I'm a doctoral student, facing the problem of writing papers.188BET靠谱吗When I meet the zotero, I feel that it could really enhance my efficiency of literature review.Here are several suggestions.
1.Will the program add an icon of "insert this citation in the MS Word" on the main panel?If so, when I select a paper, I can click on this icon, and the program will insert the citation at the position of the current cursor in the MS Word.188BET靠谱吗In some cases, when I browse an article in the zotero, I feel it is very pertinent, and I wish that it could be inserted directly and instantly into my current article.
2.Will the program set a search limitation for a pdf, in which the distance between two
explicit words is limited to, for example, 50 words, or an explicit word should appears more than 3 times in the pdf?Because for a pertinent paper which meets the above limitations, I found that it is really discussing about the keywords which I type in the box of the search condition.
Thanks for your reply!
1.Will the program add an icon of "insert this citation in the MS Word" on the main panel?If so, when I select a paper, I can click on this icon, and the program will insert the citation at the position of the current cursor in the MS Word.188BET靠谱吗In some cases, when I browse an article in the zotero, I feel it is very pertinent, and I wish that it could be inserted directly and instantly into my current article.
2.Will the program set a search limitation for a pdf, in which the distance between two
explicit words is limited to, for example, 50 words, or an explicit word should appears more than 3 times in the pdf?Because for a pertinent paper which meets the above limitations, I found that it is really discussing about the keywords which I type in the box of the search condition.
Thanks for your reply!
2) I'm not understanding exactly what you mean here.Could you try to rephrase?
Proximity query- If word A and word B appear within n words of one another in the title or abstract of a record then include the record in the results.
Count query- If word A appears in the record n or more times in the title or abstract of a record include it in the results, else don't include the record.
We set up a server-side query system for my SafetyLit database to allow these kinds of searches.Maybe we implemented it in a clumsy way but even with a fast multi-core processor, tons of ram, and just under a Tb of SSD, this badly bogged down a search of my 500,000 record database.188BET靠谱吗I suspect that a similar search using the Zotero client with even 1% of those records using a typical Windows or Mac would take forever.Further although we really promoted this sophisticated search capacity very few people used it.Less than 1 out of 2000 users who used a Boolean search used the proximity or count query.That low use was a good thing because this kind of search led to slower response time for all searches.We disabled those query add-ons and no one complained.
For search, we may offer more sophisticated ranking-based searching in the future, but that would require some pretty major changes (both in terms of the underlying search technology and the user interface), so that'd be a ways off.
In fact, I noticed that the shortcut of "Ctrl+Shift+A" could also do the same thing.188BET靠谱吗In this case, when I browse a paper (may be its note) in the zotero window and I suddenly realize that I should insert this paper into my document in the MS word, I can use the shortcut and turn to MS word window, then paste the citation.
188BET靠谱吗However, there's no instruction in Zotero to highlight the function of "Ctrl+Shift+A" (and the "insert citation" process), and I have to seek for the solution in the Help document.188BET靠谱吗Well, I have to say that my mind was bounded by the user experience in the endnote X8 when I sought the button in Zotero...
2.I faced the problem of "useless paper" when I was writing a literature review and @DWL-SDCAappropriately described the problem.
For example, I'm looking for papers demonstrating the relationship between the "flow pattern" and the "fingering".(The two words are professional terms in the hydromechanics).188BET靠谱吗When I search the word in the Zotero for Windows, I found that most of the results are irrelevant with my original intention.
(1) the words may exist in the reference lists in the pdf.
(2) the words may exist only once as the author just mention the word but not to discuss about them, let alone the demonstration of the relationship.
(3) the words may exist far from each other, and one of the section is discussing about, i.e., the relationship between the "flow pattern" and something else.
In fact, if a paper is really discussing a specific word, the Count query of the word should be more than 3.In addition, the Proximity query of the searching words should be limited into a single paragraph( the program could seek for the newline).
188BET靠谱吗I think that the Zotero for Windows (not online or in Chrome) could have the search condition and leave the search task to the CPU in the PC.Though the response time of the search may be long, but the searching result is really attractive for users.It could save a lot of time and happy mood.
The few use of Boolean search, I think, could be contributed to the less efficiency of the current search condition.188BET靠谱吗Commonly the number of the paper in a Zotero library is less than 1000.If the response time is too long due to the the number of the paper (e.g.188BET靠谱吗more than 2000), the user will automatically sort the paper into different Zotero libraries due to the expected outcome.However, if the search result is far from what the users expect, or the users have to spend plenty time to check the result, the function of search will be directly abandoned and never be used again——they remember that their attempt is in vain.
Maybe the so-called neural network algorithm and, whatsoever, could improve the search result, but at the moment the simple search condition of "Proximity query" and "Count query" have potential to drastically improve the search result with a few efforts on the software.Thus I wish the suggestions could be under consideration.
Thanks for your reply.