# hans/obsidian-citation-plugin

Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books.

Repository: https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/obsidian-citation-plugin
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-13T07:50:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2094, "days_push": 811, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1335, forks 113 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:25.353097+00:00)

## What it is
An Obsidian plugin that integrates academic reference managers like Zotero with the Obsidian editor. It reads BibTeX/BibLaTeX and CSL-JSON bibliographies, letting users search references and automatically create literature notes with configurable templates.

## Use cases
- search my Zotero library from within Obsidian
- automatically create literature notes for papers and books
- insert Pandoc-style citations into my markdown notes
- import a BibTeX bibliography into Obsidian
- generate note templates from reference metadata like authors and DOI
- link my reference manager with my note-taking workflow

## When to choose
- you use Obsidian for academic note-taking and want your bibliography integrated
- you export references from Zotero (Better BibTeX) or another manager in BibLaTeX or CSL-JSON format
- you want templated literature notes auto-created from citation metadata

## When to avoid
- you don't use Obsidian as your editor
- your reference manager cannot export BibTeX or CSL-JSON
- you need full two-way sync with your reference manager rather than file-based export

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: search-engine, templating, markdown
- domain: education, developer-tools, text-editors, documentation
- platform: cross-platform, editor-plugin
- tags: obsidian, bibtex, csl-, zotero, reference-manager, literature-notes, academic-writing, citation

## Member repositories
- hans/obsidian-citation-plugin (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:25.353097+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:44:22.275890+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:25.353097+00:00, sha a28e437d3d66)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.