Scholarometer

Browser Extension for Academic Impact Analysis
What is Scholarometer?
Scholarometer is a Chrome extension that enhances Google Scholar, providing a platform for academic citation analysis and impact evaluation. By crowdsourcing author annotations in their fields of study, it allows for cross-disciplinary comparison of an author's publication impact. It includes features such as easy integration with Google Scholar profiles, a user-friendly interface, and a widget to display an author's scholarly impact. The extension is updated to support the latest web standards, ensuring robust performance and user experience.

Extension stats

Users: 1,000+
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 5.4.0 (Last updated: 2024-03-06)
Creation date: 2019-09-23
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • http://scholar.google.com/
  • https://scholar.google.com/
  • https://scholarometer-test.cs.indiana.edu/
  • https://scholarometer.indiana.edu/
  • http://scholarometer-test.cs.indiana.edu/
  • http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/
Size: 472.06K

Other platforms

Scholarometer (v5.1.0)
4.57 (7) 246
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Scholarometer is a social platform that extends Google Scholar to facilitate scholarly citation analysis. You provide author annotations about their fields, and our tool uses this crowdsourced data to evaluate the impact of an author's publications in those fields. Our impact metric can be compared across fields. Install the browser extension to use Scholarometer!

After installation, you will see the Scholarometer panel at the top right-hand side of any Google Scholar profile page.

Read more about the Scholarometer project here: https://scholarometer.indiana.edu

Version History:

5.4.0

  • Updated to manifest v3

5.3.0

  • Added popup explaining how to use Scholarometer which appear before the first use
  • Support for the new CORS policy for extensions introduced in Chrome 85
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User reviews

Scholarometer is a great tool, it shows impact in a universal (cross-field) way and the field tagging data is publicly available via an API.
by Fil Menczer, 2019-01-22
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Scholarometer requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Scholarometer has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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