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Paper watching : alert when some new paper cites it

You could tag an article of your library for being watched. The system would continuously check if some new paper is citing the paper of interest (just keep an eye on the number of citations in google scholar for example). It could display these new articles as an RSS feed or as a list of suggestion where you would just have to check boxes to include or not the new articles in your library.

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Marc BernotMarc Bernot shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
RamanRaman shared a merged idea: Paper watching: alert when the paper with a given tag/keyword is published  ·   · 
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MendeleyAdminMendeley (Admin, Mendeley) responded  · 

I have discussed the possibility of getting this implemented with some of our Developers here, we certainly would be interested in making this change a reality, however, it would require a lot of ground work so may be some time down the line.

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  • AnonymousAnonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd love this feature too! In the bioscience field, Pubmed is capable of checking all the papers that cite a given one. It would only be needed that Mendeley is capable of chechking this out...

  • LukeLuke commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would love this feature. I currently use Google alerts to notify me when papers come out citing a certain paper or author. It is very time consuming to comb through more then a couple journals for recent and relevant papers. This would centralize the process of keeping up with current literature as well as maintaining my collection of important papers.

  • LukeLuke commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would love this feature. I currently use Google alerts to notify me when papers come out citing a certain paper or author. It is very time consuming to comb through more then a couple journals for recent and relevant papers. This would centralize the process of keeping up with current literature as well as maintaining my collection of important papers.

  • Matthew DoreyMatthew Dorey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think this would be a great idea. And so what if google already does it? All this means is that a) Mendeley would be streamlining our workflows - something that it already strives to do - and b) Google might already have an API available for this feature, making it fairly easy for the Mendeley team to use/hack.

  • Chad AustinChad Austin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    it would be nice to have this service built in to Mendeley - and not necessarily for new publications, but if it could give you all of the papers citing a given reference in your library, it would be a huge time-saver for me.

  • Eben BroadbentEben Broadbent commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    google already provides this service, as well as elsevier I believe, i don't think this should be a priority for Mendeley

  • kenken commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really don't think this is very feasible for Mendeley. What makes Mendeley great is that we don't rely on it to search and create a database of papers for us. Something like Google Scholar is already great for that (and as pointed out already will provide email alerts for citations). I would rather Mendeley concentrate on features that I don't get from other good sources.

  • Arne NedergaardArne Nedergaard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also, it would be great if one could let Mendeley search pubmed for new articles based on specific key words (e.g. protein name) - and then get a list every day, and import the articles one would like to have a closer look at, and possibly import and share.

  • nikitabnikitab commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Google Scholar recently implemented email alerts for citations, it's been working really well for me.

  • Enzo RossiEnzo Rossi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This should be set by default for 'my publications' and for starred papers.

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