Project News

• 2026.03.12 🛠️ System Architecture & New Sections: Over the last two days, we significantly improved our platform's data integrity by migrating all author and journal tracking to use unique OpenAlex IDs. Thanks to this, we have launched two entirely new sections on the website: Authors and Journals, where you can explore dedicated pages and statistics for each entity. We also resolved a critical database bug that had temporarily halted the daily pipeline, successfully restoring both real-time discovery and our historical backfill process.
• 2026.03.10 📊 New Feature: Filter Audit Page. We have launched a dedicated Filter section in the menu to provide transparency on our automated screening process. This audit tool displays the last 7 days of processed papers, showing whether they passed our relevance filter and the specific reasoning behind the decision. To ensure full transparency, we also publish the active AI Filter Prompt used by the system. This enhancement helps us continuously refine our selection criteria for better accuracy.
• 2026.02.26 🔍 Efficiency upgrade: We have introduced a multi-stage pre-filtering system. New articles now pass through a 'funnel' starting with a Journal Blacklist and an OpenAlex Topic Pre-screening. Only relevant candidates proceed to the LLM analysis, significantly reducing processing time and focusing only on core hydrological and climate science.
• 2026.02.25 🛡️ System enhancement: We have officially transitioned to a peer-review-only policy. All preprints and non-journal sources (e.g., Zenodo, Figshare) have been excluded to ensure the highest academic quality. Meanwhile, our backfilling process continues at a steady pace, currently processing October 2025, and we continue refining our relevance filters.
• 2026.02.16 🎯 We are working on fine-tuning the filtering prompt. The goal is to reduce false positives from articles that lack a clear focus on water resources, hydrology, droughts, ...
• 2026.02.15 🔄 A backfilling script has been created and implemented. This tool will allow us to automatically retrieve and process relevant articles from previous months and years to complete the project's historical database.
• 2026.02.09 🚀 We officially launch the BiblioAssistant website. This portal was born with the mission to automate the monitoring of scientific literature in hydrology and climate change, facilitating the synthesis work for researchers.