Lazy Scholar

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

What is Lazy Scholar?

Lazy Scholar is a Chrome extension designed for researchers. It automatically hunts for free full text of scientific articles opened by users and provides relevant information about the paper such as funding statements, metrics, and citations. It gives quick access to references, abbreviations, comments on the paper, and supplements. Moreover, it recommends paper based on user preferences, provides auto-generated sharing links, and enables fast citation copying in over 900 formats.

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By: https://lazyscholar.org

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.16 (63)

Version: 2.6.0 (Last updated: 2020-06-15)

Creation date: 2020-06-15

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

<all_urls>
activeTab
tabs
notifications
contextMenus
downloads
downloads.shelf
storage
clipboardWrite
sessions

Size: 9.93M

Email: co*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 8189 ▼ 141

Other rankings

#2683 in Tools ▼ 15 #275 in style keyword 46

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Lazy Scholar (v2.6.0)

2.00 (2) 4,899+

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Summary

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Lazy Scholar automatically searches for a freely available full text the instant you open a scientific paper. In use, it finds one 36-41% of the time*. NEW: Lazy Scholar can deep link with your institution to find full texts even when you're off campus. In addition, it attempts to extract helpful information about the paper if relevant such as quick links to the population, intervention, outcomes, measurements, funding statement, outline, references, abbreviations, and supplemental documents. Further, it checks for comments on the paper in PubPeer, provides various citation metrics on the paper and journal, and one-click citation styles, including a preformed powerpoint style.

Features in further detail:

-Infobar automatically appears when a paper is opened & tells you if a free full text is available, and provides various metrics & comments, along with fast citations. -This can be turned off and you can click the browser button for these. -Type "LS" in the address bar and quickly query Google Scholar, PubMed, or Web of Science. -Search your paper history with natural language. -Get new PubMed listing recommendations - Lazy Scholar learns your research preferences automatically based on what papers you open. -Citation count (GScholar's, Web of Science, and Altmetric.com score). -PubPeer comment count -Journal ranking -Attempts to find a contact email address for the paper you are searching

User reviews

User reviews summary

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Helps find academic articles easily
Provides citation in various formats
Allows access to full text and PDF of articles
Suggests related papers
Accelerates the search for research articles

Cons

Downloads PDF from Wikipedia pages even with settings off
Sluggish, makes browser tab full
Keeps popping up automatically
Detects non-journal pages as predatory journals
Difficulty in finding PDF documents of scholarly articles

Most mentioned

PDF download
Ease of finding academic articles
Intrusive automatic operations
Glitches in predatory journal detection
Improves productivity of academic works

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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Safety

Risk impact

Lazy Scholar is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Lazy Scholar if you trust the publisher.