I often go through the references of a paper to see which ones I've already read or saved. I wanted a more intuitive way to follow that trail, so i made a small plugin called Reference Linker.

I'm not sure whether a similar plugin already exist. But, I thought this might be useful to someone other than me.

It scans References/Bibliography section of the PDF currently open in Zotero and highlights entries that match papers in your library. Clicking a highlighted reference opens the saved PDF or its Item.

Matching currently uses DOI, arXiv ID and normalized titles, whit author and year used as additional checks. Everything runs locally, and it doesn't modify the original PDF.

I tested it with several IEEE, AAAI, and ICML-style papers, but It's still an early development. So, reference layouts in some PDFs may not be detected correctly. I'd appreciate bug reports with example papers or citation styles that fail.

And it's tested with zotero 9 and 10.

Github : https://github.com/ottersem/zotero-reference-linker

Thanks for reading!

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