Sonny Software

Pubmed offers a vey useful cited-in search. What would be great is if we could run a similar cited-in directly from Bookends. The easiest way would be just to do the search in Bookends browser, i.e. a context menu item would run a web search. However, what would be even better IMO would be for Bookends to use its wonderful Pubmed browser to run an API search[1], fetching the entries into the pubmed browser.

Reverse citations is one of the most powerful ways of finding related work Academics have. I think many would agree that fast access to papers who have cited another paper would be a great addition to Bookends.

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[1] Using the Entrez Elink API, I think the correct URL would be: returns the same 7 PMIDs as the web page does. There are lots of other related items returned if you omit the linkname selector, which could also be very interesting to present to the user for a mre long term feature request (having a related references panel that visualised all this link information in the UI would be wonderful).

This search only finds articles that have been filed in PubMed Central, which may be useful, but it is not comprehensive.

Jon
Sonny Software

Yes, the article I used as an example has 13 citations (according to WoS), of which 7 are available via PMC. The available PMC links are still very useful...

PMC is I think the best/only open source for citation and other related links

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I don't know if there are other good open citation databases (WoS and others are commercial). I had a look at Crossref, but I think their data on citations is limited to publishers:

http://help.crossref.org/cited-by-linking

They are going to launch a new open service which has some citation linking. This should enable Bookends to offer "live" related data for any DOI in the near future, but again the cited-by info may not be complete:

http://blog.crossref.org/2016/04/crossr ... lable.html

Google Scholar doesn't have an API, and though there are nice code libraries that scrape the data for you, the ToS are not very clear so doubt you'd feel comfortable integrating it into BE.