False positive in duplicate matchings about bibtex-tidy

[FlamingTempura]

Hey, thanks for the report.

Unfortunately the "Similar author and title" algorithm is pretty basic and will result in false positives in some cases.

It works by getting the first author name and title of two entries, removing punctuation, and checking if the result is the same for both entries. In your example the second author is ignored so both articles appear to be the same.

bibtex-tidy/src/index.ts

Line 133 in cf7ee5d

alphaNum(aut.split(/,| and/)[0]) + ':' + alphaNum(ttl);

It could probably be improved but even Google Scholar makes mistakes when detecting duplicates :)

Closing this for now. If you have any suggestions for how the algorithm could be improved then feel free to reopen.