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It’s SPEEDY!

Initial processing is now more than 66% faster than ever before! Averaging 39 words per second, it's nearly 3 times quicker than 6 months ago*, and the average journal article now processes in under 2 minutes.

*Actual increase is approx. 2.9×

Comparison to PubMed comments!

When Merops links a reference to PubMed, it can now alert you if the document title on PubMed is different to the one given by the author. You might be surprised how often authors make mistakes in the punctuation, hyphenation, spelling, or wording of a title, or omit subtitles. Depending on your current procedure, this feature will either significantly improve the quality of your work, or help you work much faster, or both.

Example

It's your call

Because PubMed isn't necessarily 100% accurate, it's entirely up to you whether to use the suggestion from PubMed. If you want to make the suggested replacement, you can right-click on the comment, click on the suggestion, and Merops will insert the new text for you.

New rules!

37 brand-new rules, including:

• Comparison to PubMed comments.
• New context rules for units: in footnotes, and in table captions and figure legends.
• Alert duplicate references.
• Replace affiliation footnote symbols with author initials.

Plus 10 existing rules have new settings requested by our users.

Over 1000 other fixes and improvements

We’ve focused heavily on the feedback We’ve received from your emails, and from the Send Feedback to Shabash app. For example:

• Correct case after colon in reference document titles is now applied.
• Retrieved author names from PubMed are now styled in accordance with your settings min./min is now standardized.
• ‘sec’, not ‘secs’ is now applied for those journals that prefer ‘sec’ for seconds.
• Heading IDs are now correctly inserted, for those journals that require them.
• Abbreviations are matched more accurately, by looking at the source case of a sentence, heading or title.
• The correct case is now applied in table bodies.
• The rule adding a comma before ‘that’ has been removed, because it was unreliable.
• The rule splitting “incorrectlyconjoined” words has been replaced with a comment, because it was unreliable.

Thank you so much to all the people who gave feedback and helped make this update possible!