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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?
Mateo, Maverick and 4 others4 Comments-
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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Delete obsolete duplicate records only after cross‑checking attached pdf links and notes.
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Schedule periodic small‑scale maintenance instead of one giant painful one‑time cleanup.
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