# Batch DOI lookup and data completion method

**URL:** https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248
**Category:** Features
**Created:** [October 6, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248 "2016-10-06T17:38:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![javadhelali](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/javadhelali/32/63_2.png) [@javadhelali](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/javadhelali)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2016, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248/1 "2016-10-06T17:38:51Z")

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After fetching papers information from google scholar, you can complete paper’s information by first lookup for DOI and then getting BibTeX data from DOI.  
but it is a difficult task for tens or hundreds of articles.  
it would be very good if JabRef had a batch DOI lookup and data completion method.

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Please vote if you support this proposal:

_Poll ([view on site](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248/1))_

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### Author: ![ifthenelse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/76d3ee/32.png) [@ifthenelse](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ifthenelse)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248/2 "2016-10-26T07:22:18Z")

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Or if you have 20000 article, Incollection, Books, Misc … some with DOI some without DOI, many  
documents which do not have a DOI at all …

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### Author: ![satriamjati](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/satriamjati/32/2502_2.png) [@satriamjati](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/satriamjati)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2026, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248/3 "2026-01-26T05:35:44Z")

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Do we have this yet? I found “Get Bibliographic data from DOI” but cannot select multiple entries.

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### Author: ![ryan-carpenter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b487fb/32.png) [@ryan-carpenter](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/ryan-carpenter)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/batch-doi-lookup-and-data-completion-method/248/4 "2026-02-21T22:26:03Z")

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Yes. Batch DOI lookup works in the latest development version. There is also an automated bibliographic information lookup. If you are on JabRef v5 you might want to try the [pre-release of v6](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/releases/tag/v6.0-alpha.5).