Linking related papers/references
Link related papers e.g. response to a paper, or a comment on an important trial can be linked to the main paper. It would be useful to have this information analyzed by the Mendeley servers, if enough users link related papers, and then other uses may be prompted that a certain paper is related to another one(s).
Tauseef Khan
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Sune Woeller
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Linking book sections (chapters) to books would also be a nice benifit. (An edited book, with chapters by different authors.)
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MS
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This is where Zotero wins - It is must have feature!
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Anonymous
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This would be amazing!! It would be really useful and innovative choosing a paper in the library and then create a visual 3D citation map showing all papers you already have which are cited by the chosen article. Mendeley has so much potential to improve ways to generate new knowledge...keep up with the amazing work!!
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Shin
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It will be really fascinating to have link between related papers. A user copy the id of a paper and goes to another paper to paste the link with or without a keyword. If Mendeley opens the link information on the web with the strength of the link, Mendeley database will have a "handcrafted" article link, which will be far more useful than pubmed article link.
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Diemo Schwarz
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Yes, this can be generalised as tagged links between papers, with additional text fields (comment, location): The obvious tags are "cites" and "cited by", the additional text could mark on what subject, or what precise section is cited.
Mining and community sharing the standard tags would create a huge network of knowledge.
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Jason
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Instead of, or in addition to, linking papers based on Mendeley server info, there should be an option to link PDFs within your library or, better yet, merge them into one document (especially useful for supplementary info, which by default have almost no useful metadata).
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gjs
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An expanding tree to show the more recent papers as per Ray J's suggestion is good. The key is to somehow distinguish downloaded papers from others, while still indicating somehow if all the related papers have been 'reviewed' or not.
It might work like this:
1. Servers provide all related papers to those in the user's database (Google Scholar, Scopus, etc).
2. An expanding tree shows the related papers in the user's collection with an option to show all other related papers (not downloaded) from the servers.
3. A tick box could be provided next to all related, but not downloaded papers to indicate whether the related paper is of interest of not.
4. When all the related papers have been ticked as 'not of interest' or downloaded, the primary paper is somehow marked as having been fully citation reviewed. That way, we know when each paper in our collection has been fully investigated for more recent and relevant related pubs. -
Ben
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It would also be good for linking supplemental info to the originating paper. If there is a way to do this already, I haven't found it.
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Ray J
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Yes, I'd like to have a tree-in/ tree-out view of any given paper, to show how an article relates to references that I've reviewed or is referenced by the article that I've reviewed. This would aid in managing those articles that I have not yet reviewed, and discovering other potential sources.
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Anonymous
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I completely agree with Micah !!
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Ashley
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I frequently take notes on papers which cannot be put in the notes section on Mendeley. For example, I might fill in the details on a derivation in the paper. It would be useful to include a space for uploading files in the notes section. They can get a filename similar to the original paper, e.g. if the paper is: Author-year-title.pdf, the notes can be Author-year-title-Note1.pdf etc.
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Micah Gideon Modell commented
It would be great if this were implemented along with http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/1191541-download-all-cited-references-from-within-one-art?ref=title
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Thorben
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I also think it would be nice to implement this feature so I can mark related papers.
My dream would be, that mendely could analyze the bibliography automatically and show the relathionship of a paper. -
Maximilien Chaumon commented
With a drag n drop feature, like I like this paper and it reminds me of this one. Let me drag drop them together.
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Thomas TRIPLET
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It would also be great to flag papers as obsolete. For example, bioinformatics database are quite often updated every 2 years or so, resulting in a new paper, making the previous paper obsolete. It would be great to flag the old paper as obsolete and have a link to the newer version
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Richard Walker
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It would be good if they could comment on what is planned, especially since they've just junked the references tab in 0.9.7! I don't want to seem ungrateful - it's a nice app - but a bit more user interaction would go a long way to keeping the community happy.
Best regards,
Richard. -
Racz Gabor
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Wow, it is planned! :)
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Jhon Silva
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Agreed. But there are several types of relation to consider. One feature that I deeply miss is the possibility to say that a certain document is part of another. E.g., I have some documents that are Conference Proceedings, and others that are individual papers of those proceedings. I need them both because sometimes I need to cite an individual paper, and other times I need to create a reference to the entire book. However, it's confusing to have these both entries, as they seem to be completely different documents at first sight.
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radiomeat
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I agree with these ideas. There seem to be two strains here. The first is a sort of citation index (the sort of thing that is available within google scholar), and the second is a sort of mind-map/relational links idea, in which connections exist between documents in a collection. Regarding this second element, it seems like it could be usefully combined with keyword/annotation functions. That is, a keyword, or an annotation that is itself tagged with a keyword, could serve as a node connecting documents or ideas in documents. In thinking about links between docs, it would be useful to think of these links as between specific sections of docs. That is, a relationship between a selected and tagged idea (and a specific page view or link to a page view that is attached to that note/selection) and a similar selection/tagged idea at another paper. This would seem to require a way of incorporating links in annotations etc. that cause a paper to open in the pdf reader to a specific site within the document. This would work well with ideas about tagging and annotating documents not at the level of the whole document, but at the more specific level of the paragraph or text selection. (ie., http://feedback.mendeley.com/pages/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/352643-tagging-part-of-text)
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bessie
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I've just begun research on a new topic, and top of my wish list is a map of who's citing whom. I'd like to see both how the articles in my database relate to each other as well as get an overview of influential articles on the topic.
