Hi all, I am not sure if there is a solution on this kind of situation.
I am a newbie to Paperpile. While I have been enjoying using it for a manuscript that I am working on on the Google Doc, I have encountered a situation like what @Joachim_Jake_Layes have described. From a quick self-troubleshooting, I understand that Paperpile recognize the author who are the first in multiple papers but their first names were spelled slightly different (all items are imported either from my Mendeley or directly from the search functionality embedded by Paperpile). For examples, I have cited differebt papers with Ann Pearson as the first author. Using the American Geophysical Union (AGU) citation style (which follows APA style), the in-text citations sometimes appear “…(Pearson et al. xxxx).” or “…(Ann Pearson et al. xxxx).” — I believe this is due to the first name of this author in the two papers are different; one with “Pearson, A” and the other with “Pearson, Ann”.
I have used other citation management tools, including EndNote and Mendeley, and they can handle this situation quite well without requiring a hardwired, manual edit on metadata of the whole reference library.
It will be greatly helpful if Paperpile offers the same functionality.
Best,
Ronnie