Zotero INSPIRE Metadata Updater

This is an add-on for the excellent open-source reference manager Zotero. It is useful as most papers from arXiv will get published in journals later on. This add-on can be used to update the metadata and citation counts (with and without self citations) of the selected item(s) in your Zotero library from INSPIRE-HEP, which is a community maintained database for high energy physics and related fields.

Installation

Pre-built binaries

• This version is compatible only with Zotero 7, whose stable version has been released.
• The pre-built .xpi file can be downloaded from https://github.com/fkguo/zotero-inspire/releases/. If you want a version compatible with Zotero 6, download the version 0.2.20 from the releases.

Building from source

• Clone this repo

• Run npm install and npm run build-prod

• In Zotero, the add-on can be installed by going to Tools → Add-ons, then click the top-right button and choose Install Add-ons From File....

• It can be updated in Add-ons Manager → Check for Updates.

Usage

• Right click a selected item or multiple selected items, click Update INSPIRE Metadata, then choose one of the three options: fetch the metadata with or without abstracts, or update only the citations with and w/o self citations (if the paper is not in the INSPIRE database, then update the CrossRef citation counts).

• Right click a selected item or multiple selected items, click Update INSPIRE Metadata, then choose one of the three options: fetch the metadata with or without abstracts, or update only the citations with and w/o self citations.

• Right click a selected collection, then click one of the three options.

• Automatically retrieve the metadata from INSPIRE when adding a new item to the Zotero library. Options with or without getting abstracts can be set through the Preferences panel

• Metadata can be fetched as long as one of the following is provided:

  • DOI in the field of DOI or Extra; if it is only in Extra, then it should contain DOI: or doi.org/ followed by the DOI.
  • arXiv link in URL or arXiv ID in Extra in the form of arXiv:.
  • INSPIRE Citation key in Extra in the form of Citation Key: .
    • If one does not want to set the citation keys to the INSPIRE ones, then set Set citekeys in Extra in INSPIRE Metadata Updater Preferences under Tools menu to No.
  • INSPIRE recid in Loc. in Archive or the url containing /literature/recid in URL.

• The add-on will update the following fields:

  • Notice: the INSPIRE standard journal abbreviations (instead of the fill journal name) will be put into the Publication field.
  • INSPIRE uses a unique recid for each publication in the database (called control_number in the .json file obtained via the INSPIRE API). The INSPIRE recid is set to the field of Loc. in Archive (and INSPIRE to Archive) for the selected Zotero item.

    • This also enables to write look-up engines using this recid to exactly reach the INSPIRE page of that publication and its citations. The look-up engines can be added by editing the engines.json file in the locate folder of the Zotero Data Directory. The directory can be found by clicking Zotero Preferences → Advanced → Files and Folders → Show Data Directory. Add the following code to the engines.json file:

      
      "_name": "INSPIRE",
      "_alias": "INSPIRE",
      "_description": "INSPIRE",
      "_icon": "https://inspirehep.net/favicon.ico",  // or local path to the INSPIRE icon,
      "_hidden": false,
      "_urlTemplate": "https://inspirehep.net/literature/{z:archiveLocation}",
      "_urlNamespaces": {
      	"z": "http://www.zotero.org/namespaces/openSearch#"
      }
      ,
      
      "_name": "INSPIRE Citations",
      "_alias": "INSPIRE Citations",
      "_description": "INSPIRE citing papers",
      "_icon": "https://inspirehep.net/favicon.ico", 
      "_hidden": false,
      "_urlTemplate": "https://inspirehep.net/literature?q=refersto%3Arecid%3A{z:archiveLocation}",
      "_urlNamespaces": {
      	"z": "http://www.zotero.org/namespaces/openSearch#"
      }
      ,
      

    • If the Actions & Tags addon is installed, one may also setup the following action to copy the INSPIRE link of the selected item with right click or assigned shortcut keys

      f (!item) {
      return "[Copy INSPIRE Link] not an item";
      
      lse {
      f (item.getField("archive") != "INSPIRE") {
      return "[Copy INSPIRE Link] item not in INSPIRE-HEP"
      
      
      / get INSPIRE recid
      et recid
      ecid = item.getField("archiveLocation")
      
      onst clipboard = new Zotero.ActionsTags.api.utils.ClipboardHelper();
      
      et linkText;
      / Use title
      / linkText = item.getField("title");
      / Use citation key
      inkText = item.getField("citationKey");
      
      et link;
      / Use plain-text
      / link = `https://inspirehep.net/literature/${recid}`;
      / Use MarkDown
      ink = `[${linkText}](https://inspirehep.net/literature/${recid})`
      lipboard
      .addText(link, "text/unicode")
      .addText(`<a href="https://inspirehep.net/literature/${recid}">${linkText}</a>`, "text/html")
      .copy();
      
      eturn `[Copy INSPIRE Link] link to ${linkText} copied.`
      
      

  • journal (set to Journal Abbr in Zotero), volume, year, pages (either the page numbers or the modern article IDs), issue, DOI, authors ($\leq10$, otherwise keeping only the first 3; the author list will be updated if no author is given or the first name of the first author is empty), title, abstract, etc.
  • Set the arXiv number of articles that are not published to the Journal Abbr field. Items of type report or preprint are set to journalArticle.
  • It will also get the citation counts with and without self-citations for each selected item. One can also choose to update only the citation counts using Citation counts only in the right-click menu.
    • The current INSPIRE system does not display the citation count without self citations for a given paper. However, this number is in the metadata, and can be extracted with this add-on.
    • Citation counts are changed only when they are different from those of the last fetching.
  • The Better BibTeX (BBT) plugin can pin the citation key from INSPIRE. When we add new arXiv articles, sometimes BBT fails to get the INSPIRE record. In that case, this plugin writes the INSPIRE citation key to the Extra field so that it is pinned correctly (the BBT plugin needs to be installed).
  • Work with the INSPIRE Zotero translator, and change "_eprint" in Extra to arXiv.
  • Erratum information and additional publication information added as notes.

• By default, those items that could not be found will be tagged as ⛔ No INSPIRE recid found, which will be removed once it is in INSPIRE. The automatic tagging can be turned off in Settings → INSPIRE Metadata Updater Preferences.

Additional tip for citing as you writing LaTeX

After building our own Zotero library, we can make the LaTeX writing process much more enjoyable in VS code (with the LaTeX Workshop extension) with the Zotero-cite VS code extension.

• usage:
  • press Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P, choose Zotero Cite: Cite and Create Bibliography for Pandoc/LaTeX and bind a hotkey, e.g., Alt+z.
  • in Settings of VS code, set Zotero-cite: Default Bib Name to ./refs.bib, which allows the extension update or create the refs.bib file under the same directory of the .tex file.
  • now when you're writing, press the hotkey, a Zotero reference picker window will pop up, select the references you want to cite, then it is cited with the \cite{} command and the refs.bib file gets automatically updated if the cited reference does not exist in the bib file.

References

I knew basically nothing about javascript or typescript. The first version of this add-on was developed by modifying the codes of the following two add-ons:

• https://github.com/bwiernik/zotero-shortdoi

• https://github.com/eschnett/zotero-citationcounts

The version from 0.3.0 on (for Zotero 7) was developed based on:

• https://github.com/windingwind/zotero-plugin-template

License

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