Timeline for Is it acceptable to ask for the original bibtex file of a paper?
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| Oct 1, 2017 at 21:13 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | @JAB I am not sure of what you are trying to tell me with this comment. Do we agree that grabbing someone else's bibtex file (with a useful selection of references, human-readable keys, and some manual edits to fix at least glaring mistakes such as those that cause compilation errors) requires a lot less work than trying to produce a new one from automated sources from the internet? | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 20:43 | comment | added | JAB | @FedericoPoloni That's true of pretty much any online citation source. Plus there's no guarantee the authors of the paper in question got all the citations completely right too considering the number of citations in question. | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | Federico Poloni |
The .bib files produced by Scopus/WoS/Google Scholar are not directly usable without manual editing. They get a lot of things wrong (capitalization, name/surname splitting, special characters...).
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| Oct 1, 2017 at 3:56 | comment | added | High GPA | @cfr Yes, I mean the working papers. | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 3:35 | comment | added | cfr | @HighGPA If it isn't published, how do you have access to it? If you are reviewing the paper, I would say it is definitely unethical to ask. That would be a whole different scenario. Or do you mean it is a working paper somebody has published unofficially e.g. a draft on an author's web site? | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 23:11 | comment | added | High GPA | Thanks! Luckily I have the access to Scopus through my another affiliation. The only problem is the most useful review paper is most likely a working paper which is not documented by Scopus...... | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 23:01 | comment | added | Sciencertobe | Yes, you can find the paper and click on "Cited References". That will give you the bibliography and allow you to export them. You can't do it directly as a Bibtex, but you can output to a couple of bibliography management software, or output the raw citation data which isn't difficult to convert to bibtex. | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 22:53 | comment | added | High GPA | (upvote) My current school only gives the access to Scopus's competitor, Web of Sci. Does Web of Sci has similar function? | |
| Sep 30, 2017 at 22:21 | history | answered | Sciencertobe | CC BY-SA 3.0 |