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Zotero Translators

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Zotero Translators

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What people are saying

Mek, this is great. Thanks for sharing & open-sourcing it. I love the idea of bringing together paper discussions online - whether post-publication peer review like…

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This week on Hacker News

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year8 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2013-02-26 21:28:00 UTC to 2022-03-18 05:01:48 UTC.

0122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20132014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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kanzure·Apr 10, 2013
> I think Mendeley had more advantages over Zotero than the social aspect > (which I never used). Mendeley could automatically incorporate your > folder of orphan PDFs into your library So can Zotero. http://www.zotero.org/support/retrieve_pdf_metadata > automatically fetching the bibliographic info. https://github.com/zotero/translators https://github.com/zotero/translation-server (Those two repositories are the greatest things about Zotero, in my opinion. Holy crap.) > It had a nice dedicated desktop client for searching your library Zotero standalone seems to be listed here very prominently: http://www.zotero.org/download/
In Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover
jayunit·Feb 26, 2013Recommendation phrase
Mek, this is great. Thanks for sharing & open-sourcing it. I love the idea of bringing together paper discussions online - whether post-publication peer review like f1000research.com or more casual discussion like r/science. One challenge I've found is that it's often difficult for discussion sites to gain sufficient traction to build a critical mass of discussion - http://plasmyd.com, http://papercritic.com, http://scicombinator.com, http://chemfeeds.com. I wonder if focusing on supporting existing small-group interactions (real-life journal clubs) would help? I took a slightly different approach when I wrote http://www.papernautapp.com and chose instead to aggregate existing discussions about academic papers (mostly blogs, a few news sites, HN, and r/science, with a goal to cover to more sites and mailing lists). It's also freely li
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censed, and there are some interesting things I discovered that might be useful to OpenJournal (looking at your TODO list and GH issues): * CrossRef.org runs a ton of cool lookup/crossref/deref services at http://labs.crossref.org/ * They also have some great libraries at https://github.com/crossref/ - who wouldn't geek out at this: http://labs.crossref.org/pdfextract/ * If you want to do some auto-identification on webpages, the https://github.com/zotero/translators project is great and actively maintained by the Zotero community. (Some notes on how Papernaut is put together, if you're interested: http://jayunit.net/2013/01/06/papernaut-exploring-online-dis... ) Lastly, if you're fostering discussion and feedback on papers, there's overlapping interest with the http://altmetrics.org and http://altmetric.com folks.
In OpenJournal - Discuss academic papers (open source)

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