Changelog

Headings, bold text and lists in notification emails now display properly instead of showing # and * symbols.

News previews on the homepage no longer show symbols such as # and *.

The form for emailing users about a post is wider, with full-width fields and a larger message box.

If your verification request is still pending, you can send a new one a week after the previous request.

The researchers page now lists the most recently added researchers first, with a new "Date added" sort option.

A new homepage design is available alongside the existing ones.

The homepage design, light or dark mode and language you choose are saved to your account and restored when you sign in.

The admin researchers list now finds researchers by full or partial email, for example a university domain.

Notification emails address researchers by their academic title and degree, for example "الأستاذ الدكتور" or "الأستاذة الدكتورة".

If your account email is not a university address, the verification notice suggests changing it so the admin can verify you.

Signed-in researchers whose account is not verified see what to do, and can request verification, from any page of the site.

Researchers now receive an email as soon as an admin verifies their account, listing any profile details still missing, such as certificates or academic title.

Merging duplicate publications no longer fails when a researcher is linked to the same paper more than once.

Corrected the English names of academic titles, including Assistant Lecturer.

When automatic translation fails, the original text is kept instead of saving an error message.

Importing by DOI now works reliably and no longer creates a duplicate when the paper already exists without a DOI.

Edits to teaching experience are saved correctly, an empty end date no longer causes an error, and dates display properly.

Admin permissions no longer stop working when switching between Arabic and English.

The mobile menu now shows the same links in the same order as on desktop, including two-factor authentication, passkeys, change email, account deactivation, site settings and the admin dashboard.

Admins now see each researcher's email address when verifying accounts.

Co-authors listed with a shortened name are now matched to the right researcher, duplicate external co-authors are merged, and unverified profiles are no longer shown.

Search boxes in selection lists now match words regardless of hamza, ta marbuta or ya spelling.

The college page has a new mobile-friendly layout with a map, contact cards, status badges and clearer statistics.

Each section of the profile edit page has its own link, so you can open or share a specific section directly.

Site admins can switch the homepage to a new register-style design from the site settings.

Researchers now give a reason when asking to hide a publication, and admins see it when reviewing the request.

Admins can email researchers whose profiles have no academic title or certificate, reminding them to complete it.

The researchers list can now be sorted by academic title, ordered by rank from highest to lowest or the reverse.

Filter and export the report at university, college or department level, and download an Excel file with every publication's researcher, affiliation and details.

Platform and college admins can now approve or reject researchers' requests to hide a publication from their profile.

Request that a wrongly-attributed publication be hidden from your profile, cancel a request or restore a hidden one instantly, or manually add a paper by pasting its DOI.

Request a login link from the Login page and click it to sign in directly, no password needed. Links expire after 15 minutes and are not available for accounts with two-factor authentication enabled.

The researcher's country, derived from their verified Google Scholar email domain, now feeds a cross-country collaboration breakdown and a new admin data-quality card for researchers with no verified Scholar email.

A new impersonate action in the admin researcher list lets admins view the platform as a specific researcher.

Right-click a confirmed collaboration edge to see the papers shared between two researchers in a popup.

Clicking a researcher node now merges their collaborators into the current graph view; double-clicking still opens their profile.

College admins can trigger bulk discovery for all eligible researchers at once, with clickable links to each external ID platform in the researcher list and a new ORCID search filter.

College report filters now use searchable dropdowns with dependent university/college selection, and institute/college/department edit pages support name sorting and parent-based filtering.

The separate admin Services page was merged into the Dashboard and Statistics pages; old bookmarks still redirect correctly.

When resolving ORCID, Scopus, or Web of Science IDs, the platform now also fills in missing DOIs on the researcher's articles.

Two different papers that shared a generic title but had no known publication year were incorrectly treated as the same paper, wrongly linking their authors as collaborators.

The right-click menu and mutual-papers popup now stay visible while the collaboration graph is in fullscreen mode.

Fixed Alpine and null-reference issues that could break the researcher preview graph on the edit page and the reset-password form on some sessions.

After syncing Google Scholar articles, the platform now tries to resolve missing `Article.Doi` values through OpenAlex using article title, year, and researcher name.

ORCID discovery now falls back to OpenAlex title search when DOI-based lookup is not enough, helping recover ORCID, Scopus Author ID, and Web of Science identifiers more reliably.

Admin Statistics now supports queuing bulk confirmation emails for unconfirmed researchers and sending a dedicated confirmation link to a single researcher.

The collaborators section is hidden when there are none, and stray placeholder text no longer appears in the bio.

The metrics strip on researcher profiles is now a cleaner grid of stat tiles.

Profiles now display the academic prefix (م.م, م.د, ا.م, ا.د …) derived from the researcher's degree and title.

Signing in with two-factor authentication now lands you on the right page.

Login sessions were extended from one hour to thirty days.

See what's new in every release, grouped by version with release dates.

Protect your account with an authenticator app and QR-code setup.

All email links and URLs use the configured domain instead of hardcoded localhost values.

Frontend AJAX calls now surface meaningful errors instead of failing silently.

Auth cookies are now consistent across all routes and subpaths.

Sends the confirmation email for unconfirmed accounts during the forgot-password flow.

CSS preload, re-ordered middleware, lazy-loaded images, and better focus/contrast states.

Filled in missing UI translations and fixed RTL layout issues across the platform.

Routes now respect the active culture, with better meta tags and response compression.

Better researcher search UX, Google Translate for bios, and refined AI bio generation.

Profiles and reports now generate with QuestPDF and support custom fonts.

Styles now use the v4 pipeline and modern utility classes (bg-linear-to and friends).

Replaced dynamic DOM rendering with declarative Alpine templates for faster, more reliable UX.

Unit, integration, and load tests for AI, ORCID, predatory-journal, profile, and changelog services.

New academic title levels supported across registration, profiles, and the title model.

University pages can route to a tailored registration flow that respects local branding.

A modern landing-page template with animated hero and a distinguished researchers section.

Generic JSON-backed app settings drive feature flags and an in-app announcement banner.

Researchers can export their data and re-import it on demand, with explicit user consent.

Aggregate counts and bulk-reminder tooling for unverified or inactive researchers.

Researchers can request verification and admins can approve requests safely with rate limits.

Researchers can list their teaching history, courses, and academic positions in a structured view.

Count unique profile views per session, excluding self-views, with a research-grade flag counter.

A completion indicator guides researchers to fill the remaining profile sections.

Researchers can update their email and benefit from improved profile-photo detection.

Every outbound email is logged and inspectable from the admin email-logs view.

Admins can compose broadcasts to groups, multiple specific emails, or the full user base.

Historical metrics snapshots, article-level pages, and an analytics dashboard for researchers.

Researchers see a personalised activity feed, ranking metrics, and AI-driven suggestions.

Searchable index of predatory journals with scraping, soft-delete tracking, and MeiliSearch indexing.

Link ORCID accounts and keep publications, peer reviews, and works synced via background jobs.

Researchers can generate polished bios and concise article summaries through the AI service.

Bumped core NuGet packages to newer stable versions across the solution.

Step-by-step Python environment setup so Scopus and Google Scholar services run reliably.

A dedicated email sender service that centralises transactional email delivery.

Replaced localhost references with the production domain and enforced HTTPS redirects.

More robust Chrome driver setup, error handling, and stderr suppression in the Python pipeline.

Project now targets net10.0 with refreshed dependencies.

Better SMTP compatibility and consistent delivery settings across environments.

Replaced System.Net.Mail with MailKit and added a logging email sender implementation.

Dedicated MeiliSearch container with an endpoint to fill all public data into the search index.

Production-ready Compose file with controlled user registration.

Refreshed NuGet dependencies and addressed lingering registration issues.

Kept NuGet packages up to date and cleaned up outdated code paths.

Additional fixes for registration edge cases that surfaced after the previous release.

Brought Google Scholar and Scopus integrations in line with the latest APIs.

Refreshed NuGet packages and removed unused files to slim the project.

More consistent error handling and structured logging across controllers and services.

Multiple fixes to the registration error path and dependency cleanup.

Documentation describing setup, prerequisites, and contribution guidelines.

First push of the AcademicPlatform codebase with core researcher profile features.