Update, there doesn't seem to be any issue when I add a breakpoint to the function and step through it. If history is any lesson, I am going to guess this stems from a missing require statement.

Yes, you need to remove the "https://doi.org/" part when you query a DOI. Note that I've pushed a new branch (org-imenu) that hopefully will make things easier. I intend to merge it soon. If you want to test and give some feedback that would be wonderful.

Just tested the new branch. Not sure if it fixes the issues but I will note that I am now getting the following error on starting emacs.

Error (use-package): org-bib/:catch: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, org-imenu Disable showing Disable logging

Also, would it be possible to add the unicode symbols on lines 341-343 of org-bib.el as defcustoms. They don't work with my current font (or some other issue) and I would prefer to replace them. I did this in my pull request: https://github.com/rougier/org-bib-mode/pull/7/files

(edit: I added them as defvars but that can be changed)

I removed the symbols and instead, you have a simple function to write the header. Currently it is:

(defun org-bib-headline-format (entry)
  (format "%s (%s)" (cdr (assq :title entry))
                    (cdr (assq :year entry))))

But you can rewirte it any way you like.

For the org-imenu, did you install it (https://github.com/rougier/org-imenu/)? You'll also need pdf-drop-mode (https://github.com/rougier/pdf-drop-mode/)

You can test the doi with:

(pdf-drop-validate-doi "10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9")
(pdf-drop--bibtex-from-doi "10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9")

Did you drag and drop the pdf ?

(pdf-drop-validate-doi "10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9")

output: t

(pdf-drop--bibtex-from-doi "10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9")

output:

" @article{2021, title={Navigating the pitfalls of applying machine learning in genomics}, volume={23}, ISSN={1471-0064}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9}, DOI={10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9}, number={3}, journal={Nature Reviews Genetics}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Whalen, Sean and Schreiber, Jacob and Noble, William S. and Pollard, Katherine S.}, year={2021}, month={Nov}, pages={169–181} }\n"

no I did not drag and drop the pdf, I just called org-bib-new-from-doi and then inserted

10.1038/s41576-021-00434-9

at the minibuffer prompt

Ahhh... just realized, it does work if I have org-bib-mode active but it doesn't work when bound to a global key binding...

Sorry for delay in my answer. org-bib-mode is kind of mandatory yes. Does that mean you would like to have an option to get the bibtex from a DOI from anywhere?

Yes (sorry for delay)

sorry for delay again, this will be a long thread. Now i'm a bit lost with the issue. Last point was to implement a bibtex-from-doi, right?