How to look up the selected entry in Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, on the web?
There is no option in JabRef to directly with the single click of a button or key to search Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar, but you can right click on an entry and search “Shortscience”. You also can copy the identifier of your selected entry (for example the DOI, ISBN etc.) and then paste it in Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar.
You can also also paste the identifier into the web search bar of JabRef. Semantic Scholar is available there.
There is no option in JabRef to directly with the single click of a button or key to search Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar
This is unfortunate. It would be very helpful, because…
but you can right click on an entry and search “Shortscience”
this usually returns nothing, and…
You also can copy the identifier of your selected entry (for example the DOI, ISBN etc.) and then paste it in Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar.
It is impossible to copy the identifier if there is none
You can also also paste the identifier into the web search bar of JabRef. Semantic Scholar is available there.
Unfortunately, it also usually returns something completely irrelevant. A Java exception, for example.
Oh 
I thought that was fixed.
In this case I recommend to search for the identifier first.We have documentation about that here: Complete information using online databases | JabRef
You are having a problem and you think Google Scholar or Semantic Scholar are the solution to the problem. I would like to know what is your problem. Could you tell us?
The problem is very easy: DOI resolution fails or returns incorrect results. The only way to fix it is to find the entry on a library or the publisher’s web site.
Copy-pasting is one option, but having a context drop-down menu with “Search with > Google, Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Lens, arxiv, whatever” would be more user-friendly (like in browsers).
It might have been done with the integrated web search feature, had it returned any relevant results.