Lazy Scholar

Automatic check for full text, details, and metrics of scientific articles, plus comments, citations, fast sharing and more.

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Lazy Scholar

Lazy Scholar is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance the experience of researchers and students by providing instant access to full texts, metrics, and insights for scientific articles. It automatically searches for freely available full texts every time you open a paper, with a success rate of 36-41%.* Newly updated features include deep linking to institutional resources, automatic extraction of crucial paper details like outcomes and funding information, and instant citation metrics.

Key Features:

Infobar alerts for available full texts, quick metrics, and citations.
Natural language search for past papers and research preferences.
Citation updates from major databases, comments from PubPeer, and a plethora of citation styles for easy sharing.
Tools to block distractions and verify journal credibility. With Lazy Scholar, you’ll streamline your research process, making it faster and more efficient. For feedback and support, reach out at colby.vorland@gmail.com! (*Explore more on full-text availability at Lazy Scholar )

By:: https://lazyscholar.org
Users:: 10,000+
Rating:: 4.17
(64)
Version:: 2.7.2 (Last updated: 2024-09-11)
Creation date:: 2020-06-15
Risk:: High risk impact High risk likelihood
Permissions:: activeTab
tabs
notifications
contextMenus
downloads
storage
clipboardWrite
sessions
alarms
idle
Host permissions:: http://*/*
https://*/*
Size:: 10.24M
Email:: co*****@gmail.com
URLs:: Website ,Privacy policy
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 19 hours ago

Ranking

# 7,852 ▲ 20

Other rankings

#3793 in Tools ▼ 26 #249 in listing keyword 15 ▲ 15 #262 in right click keyword 58 ▲ #272 in address keyword 15 ▲ 12 #298 in style keyword 30 ▲

Other platforms

Lazy Scholar (v2.5.2)

444 4.00

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Lazy Scholar (v2.6.0)

4,647+ 3.00

(3)

User reviews

Pros

Saves time in accessing academic articles and PDFs
Improves productivity for academic work
Provides a citation tool that formats references according to various styles
Offers related/suggested papers feature
Automatically finds full text versions of articles

Cons

Runs automatically even when configured not to
Sluggish performance and lacks speed
Can be intrusive with PDF downloads
Issues with predatory journal detection
Doesn't always successfully find PDF documents for scholarly articles

Recent reviews

I forgot I had downloaded this and was wondering why I could access academic articles on Chrome but not Firefox. This thing is currently saving me right now as I write an essay that has so many readings my univeristy doesn't have access to

Kawaii_Karma, 2023-02-01

This extension always tries to download PDF file from Wikipedia pages even though I turned everything related to PDF off.

Innocentius, 2022-01-17

Couldn't get it to work. It's also sluggish and fills up your browser tab.

Jurij Fedorov, 2021-10-18

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Lazy Scholar requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Lazy Scholar may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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