Changelog

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A dedicated email sender service that centralises transactional email delivery.

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

Production-ready Compose file with controlled user registration.

Documentation describing setup, prerequisites, and contribution guidelines.

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