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Official repository of teachPress (publication management plugin for WordPress)
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Merging Authors and Re-allot ID #116

Open thepunitsingh opened 5 years ago

thepunitsingh commented 5 years ago

I use multiple bib files to import the publication entries, the problem occurs when the same author name is given in different style in different bib entries for example T J Siddiqui, Tanveer J Siddiqui, Tanveer J. Siddiqui, Tanveer Siddique, Tanveer Siddiqui, "Siddiqui, Tanveer" and Tanveer {Siddiqui} are the same author, but due to diffent styling there are duplicate entries in the database.

Check the attached image for an example. There are several examples, but I have marked one. 027ceab0-0505-4028-9b74-2549ece38843

I would request two enhancements in the plugin that are mentioned below.

1) Merging different authors removing the duplicate ones and selecting the one to keep. This will in turn also edit the authors of the related bib entries to maintain the author database integrity.

2) Realloting the Author ID to keep the largest ID number to match the number of different authors in the database.

jdelgadoesteban commented 3 years ago

This would be a huge improvement we had similar functionality on our old Drupal site.