Lazy Scholar

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

Total ratings

4.17 (Rating count: 64)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Finds and downloads academic articles in PDF format
  • Cites papers in various formats
  • Related/suggested papers tab for finding related papers
Cons
  • Runs automatically even when configured not to
  • Some users experienced glitchy behavior, such as predatory journal detection
  • Inability to find PDF documents for scholarly articles
Most mentioned
  • Finds and downloads academic articles in PDF format
  • Runs automatically even when configured not to
  • Related/suggested papers tab for finding related papers
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 3.00
All time rating average: 4.17
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2024-07-20
Hemraj Ojha
2023-02-01
Kawaii_Karma
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
2023-02-01
Kawaii_Karma
en 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
2022-01-17
Innocentius
This extension always tries to download PDF file from Wikipedia pages even though I turned everything related to PDF off.
2022-01-17
Innocentius
en This extension always tries to download PDF file from Wikipedia pages even though I turned everything related to PDF off.
2021-10-18
Jurij Fedorov
Couldn't get it to work. It's also sluggish and fills up your browser tab.
2021-10-18
Jurij Fedorov
en Couldn't get it to work. It's also sluggish and fills up your browser tab.
2018-08-15 Yi Yan 雖說找到pdf很方便,但按了可沒有下載功能,除非某個網站把下載按鈕藏起來,不然實在雞肋阿
2018-08-15
YY Li
zh 雖說找到pdf很方便,但按了可沒有下載功能,除非某個網站把下載按鈕藏起來,不然實在雞肋阿
2018-04-08
Yujie Yuan
great tool for improving productivity of academic works.
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