diff --git a/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/AutomaticDuplicateRemover.java b/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/AutomaticDuplicateRemover.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ba3455e77d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/AutomaticDuplicateRemover.java
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package org.jabref.logic.crawler;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashSet;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+import org.jabref.logic.database.DuplicateCheck;
+import org.jabref.model.database.BibDatabase;
+import org.jabref.model.database.BibDatabaseContext;
+import org.jabref.model.entry.BibEntry;
+import org.jabref.model.entry.BibEntryTypesManager;
+
+public class AutomaticDuplicateRemover {
+    private final BibEntryTypesManager bibEntryTypesManager;
+
+    public AutomaticDuplicateRemover(BibEntryTypesManager bibEntryTypesManager) {
+        this.bibEntryTypesManager = bibEntryTypesManager;
+    }
+
+    public void removeDuplicates(BibDatabaseContext databaseContext) {
+        DuplicateCheck duplicateCheck = new DuplicateCheck(bibEntryTypesManager);
+        BibDatabase database = databaseContext.getDatabase();
+        List<BibEntry> entries = database.getEntries();
+        List<BibEntry> entriesToRemove = new ArrayList<>();
+        Set<BibEntry> handledEntries = new HashSet<>();
+
+        for (int i = 0; i < entries.size(); i++) {
+            BibEntry entry1 = entries.get(i);
+            if (handledEntries.contains(entry1)) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            for (int j = i + 1; j < entries.size(); j++) {
+                BibEntry entry2 = entries.get(j);
+                if (handledEntries.contains(entry2)) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                if (duplicateCheck.isDuplicate(entry1, entry2, databaseContext.getMode())) {
+                    entry1.mergeWith(entry2);
+                    entriesToRemove.add(entry2);
+                    handledEntries.add(entry2);
+                }
+            }
+            handledEntries.add(entry1);
+        }
+
+        for (BibEntry entry : entriesToRemove) {
+            database.removeEntry(entry);
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/StudyRepository.java b/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/StudyRepository.java
index 6f6c4db5b10..59fcd3740e1 100644
--- a/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/StudyRepository.java
+++ b/jablib/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/crawler/StudyRepository.java
@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.time.LocalDateTime;
 import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import org.jabref.logic.JabRefException;
 import org.jabref.logic.citationkeypattern.CitationKeyGenerator;
 import org.jabref.logic.database.DatabaseMerger;
+import org.jabref.logic.database.DuplicateCheck;
 import org.jabref.logic.exporter.AtomicFileWriter;
 import org.jabref.logic.exporter.BibDatabaseWriter;
 import org.jabref.logic.exporter.BibWriter;
@@ -419,6 +423,9 @@ private void persistResults(List<QueryResult> crawlResults) throws IOException,
         // Merge new entries into study result file
         merger.merge(existingStudyResultEntries.getDatabase(), newStudyResultEntries);
 
+        LOGGER.info("Removing duplicates...");
+        new AutomaticDuplicateRemover(bibEntryTypesManager).removeDuplicates(existingStudyResultEntries);
+
         writeResultToFile(getPathToStudyResultFile(), existingStudyResultEntries);
     }
 
@@ -463,4 +470,5 @@ private Path getPathToStudyResultFile() {
     private Path getPathToQueryDirectory(String query) {
         return repositoryPath.resolve(trimNameAndAddID(query));
     }
+
 }