# How to get the number of duplicates found?

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/how-to-get-the-number-of-duplicates-found/585>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [April 20, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/how-to-get-the-number-of-duplicates-found/585 "2017-04-20T23:37:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olivia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Olivia](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Olivia)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/how-to-get-the-number-of-duplicates-found/585/1 "2017-04-20T23:37:08Z")

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Hello!

I have a database of thousands of articles and am in the process of removing duplicates. I would like to have an idea of how duplicates JabRef has found, but I can’t seem to find this feature. Much appreciated if someone could please help!

Thank you for your time,  
Olivia

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**Author:** ![stefan-kolb](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/stefan-kolb/32/4_2.png) [@stefan-kolb](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/stefan-kolb)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/how-to-get-the-number-of-duplicates-found/585/2 "2017-04-25T14:33:57Z")

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Hi,

1. `Quality -> Find duplicates`
2. Press cancel to suppress the workflow
3. Take a look at the status bar. It should say something like: Duplicates found: 23 pairs processed: 0  
Duplicates found are all potential duplicates, pairs processed the pairs you have already handled via the aforementioned popup.