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.
Marc Bernot
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Anonymous
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ReadCube reader has a similar feature and already does this: http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/167152-linking-related-papers-references
Mendeley hurry up!
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sharestep
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Anonymous
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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...
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Anonymous
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It could be implemented together with this, then it would be really really nice and useful tool
http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/167152-linking-related-papers-references?ref=title -
Luke
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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.
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Luke
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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.
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Alex Schwoerer
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I can only agree, this would make the software much better!
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Matthew Dorey
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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.
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Chad Austin commented
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.
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Eben Broadbent commented
google already provides this service, as well as elsevier I believe, i don't think this should be a priority for Mendeley
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ken
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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.
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Arne Nedergaard
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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.
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Jim
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After reading some of the comments, I figured I'd link to thisrelated request, not for alerts, but for displaying citation count: http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/432929-make-it-possible-to-determine-the-citation-count-f
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nikitab
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Google Scholar recently implemented email alerts for citations, it's been working really well for me.
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Daniel Mietchen
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A similar approach - PubFeed - has been very promising but died due to Google not allowing it the necessary amounts of requests. Some background: http://andrewtrusty.com/2009/04/14/pubfeed-automated-research-news/ .
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Enzo Rossi
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This should be set by default for 'my publications' and for starred papers.
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Halle Luja
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I'm out of votes but I would love it!
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lorenzo.riano
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I think Mendeley already could retrieve this information from the database of all the users libraries. It should be only a matter of extracting this information.
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Alexander Vozny
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A similar idea is to see how much your paper is read or downloaded (which is a much faster response than counts cited).
Such info is closed on publishers' sites, while can be easily accomplished via Mendeley database
i.e. I want to see how many Mendeley users have my paper in their database. -
Panos Ipeirotis
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Google scholar keeps a unique id for each paper (e.g., "11816906543513929352") and it is possible to keep track of the citation page for each paper very easily by going to http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=<paper id>
For example: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&cites=11816906543513929352
