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Open-source bibliometric analysis platform for medical education research. Search PubMed & OpenAlex, analyze trends, visualize networks, export PRISMA-compliant methodology logs.

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In the last 30 days, ata381/BibMedEd merged 7 of 12 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 1 beginner-friendly issue is open now.

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Oct 11, 2026
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  • Author records are shared across projects by normalised name, so namesakes merge
    Open
    area/backend enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#162 ·

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  • Author order is not preserved in exports: Publication.authors has no order_by on author_position
    Open
    area/backend bug good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#159 ·

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  • OpenAlex adapter stores the institution name only, so country extraction finds almost nothing
    Open
    area/backend bug hacktoberfest

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 61/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#154 ·

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  • Dedup against earlier searches misses a PMID when the record first arrived from a non-PubMed source
    Open
    area/backend bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#153 ·

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  • Dashboard shows the first stored analysis run forever; exclusions and new searches never invalidate it
    Open
    area/backend area/frontend bug

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#152 ·

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  • Result cap is silently truncated for OpenAlex, CrossRef, Semantic Scholar, Lens, and for PubMed at 10,000
    Open
    area/backend bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 75/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#151 ·

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  • Search page shows a generic 'Could not start search' for a 503 whose detail names the missing API key
    Open
    area/frontend bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#149 ·

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  • Bulk-exclude treats a missing citation count as 0, so it would exclude every non-PubMed record
    Open
    area/backend bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#147 ·

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  • Analysis: growth summary should flag records dated after the current year
    Open
    area/analysis enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#142 · 2 comments ·

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  • Frontend: Turkish (tr) locale
    Open
    area/frontend enhancement

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#137 ·

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  • Frontend: i18n scaffold (English only)
    Open
    area/frontend enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#135 ·

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  • Frontend: prevent node-label overlap in the network graph
    Open
    area/frontend enhancement good first issue hacktoberfest

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 74/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#95 ·

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  • Deploy: verify the one-click Render deploy wires the frontend to the public API URL
    Open
    area/docs bug help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#93 ·

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  • Analysis: strategic diagram (thematic quadrants: centrality × density)
    Open
    area/analysis enhancement hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#92 ·

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  • Tests: extend axe accessibility scans to dashboard tabs, empty workspace and read-only mode
    Open
    area/frontend enhancement good first issue hacktoberfest

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 78/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#89 ·

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  • Adapter: Dimensions (grants + clinical-trial linkage, free non-commercial)
    May be free again @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    adapter hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#69 · 2 comments ·

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  • Docs: Troubleshooting / FAQ page
    May be free again @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    area/docs documentation good first issue hacktoberfest

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 80/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#67 · 2 comments ·

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  • Enrichment: OpenCitations citation links by DOI
    May be free again @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    hacktoberfest help wanted needs design

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#11 · 3 comments ·

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  • Adapter: arXiv (preprints for med-AI / informatics)
    May be free again @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    adapter good first issue hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#9 · 2 comments ·

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  • Adapter: Europe PMC (life-sciences, includes preprints)
    May be free again @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    adapter good first issue hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#7 · 2 comments ·

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  • CSV export writes a missing citation count as 0
    Possibly taken @KeuqS claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    area/backend bug good first issue

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 20/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#160 · 1 comment ·

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  • PubMed client never sends BIBMEDED_NCBI_EMAIL or a tool name to E-utilities
    Possibly taken @salapenar-max claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    area/backend bug good first issue

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#156 ·

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  • NCBI API key never raises the PubMed request rate; several .env settings are not forwarded by docker-compose
    Possibly taken @ata381 claimed this 1 day ago. Open
    area/backend area/docs bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#148 ·

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  • API: idempotent set-screening endpoint (explicit excluded/reason/stage)
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    area/backend enhancement hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#121 ·

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  • Feature: screening decision audit trail (who/when/stage) in the methodology export
    Possibly taken A pull request linked to this issue is open or already merged. Open
    area/backend enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#120 ·

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  • Export: Web of Science plain-text for VOSviewer / Bibliometrix interop
    Possibly taken @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago. Open
    area/backend enhancement hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#68 · 2 comments ·

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  • Docs: example Jupyter notebook using the REST API on the sample project
    Possibly taken @Prachi707 claimed this 2 days ago. Open
    area/docs documentation good first issue hacktoberfest

    ata381/BibMedEd#66 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Cleaning: more robust country extraction from affiliations
    Possibly taken @Fire162 claimed this 11 days ago. Open
    area/backend enhancement good first issue hacktoberfest

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#63 · 2 comments ·

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  • Analysis: Lotka's law fit for author productivity
    Possibly taken @soyeladice-svg claimed this 13 days ago. Open
    area/analysis enhancement hacktoberfest help wanted

    Difficulty 4/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#61 · 2 comments ·

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  • Export: BibTeX (.bib) format
    Possibly taken @Fire162 claimed this 11 days ago. Open
    area/backend enhancement good first issue hacktoberfest

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    ata381/BibMedEd#60 · 2 comments ·

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