Zhiqiang Peng
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Practical workflow for cleaning and de‑duplicating large citation libraries
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Large reference libraries accumulate duplicate entries, broken metadata and incomplete records over years. Manual cleanup is tedious. What step‑by‑step workflow do you use to clean‑up and de‑duplicate your big reference library?
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Run tool‑assisted duplicate detection first, then manually verify every candidate merge.
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Filter entries with empty or malformed doi values and fix them one‑by‑one.
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What signs indicate your research project needs a significant scope reduction?
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Projects can grow too broad and become difficult to finish. Recognising when to narrow scope is a valuable research skill. What warning signs tell you that your project should be scaled down?
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When you keep discovering new sub‑topics but complete few of them.
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When the original timeline keeps slipping because scope keeps expanding.
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Collection of open‑source slide templates for academic conference talks
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Finding clean, simple academic slide templates takes extra work. Could everyone share links to open‑source slide decks they reuse for conference presentations?
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Beamer templates on github work great for technical audiences.
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Some universities publish official open presentation templates for their researchers.
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What under‑rated open‑source academic tools are you relying on this year?
Most of us know the big‑name libraries. I’m hunting for lesser‑known but practical utilities for literature sorting, experiment logging or result visualization. Drop your hidden gems below.
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I’ve been using papis for reference management recently. Lightweight scriptable tool, works wonderfully for local paper collections.
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I’ve been using papis for reference management recently. Lightweight scriptable tool, works wonderfully for local paper collections.
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