# Google Scholar search engine

> Adds a search engine for Google Scholar (scholar.google.com).

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-scholar-search-engine](https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-scholar-search-engine)

## Overview

- **ID:** `google-scholar-search-engine`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Christian Ponte
- **Category:** search-tools
- **Daily users:** 2,946
- **Weekly downloads:** 19
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (15 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2021-02-22
- **First published:** 2020-05-01
- **Size:** 16 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/google-scholar-search-engine/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/chponte/google-scholar-search-engine](https://github.com/chponte/google-scholar-search-engine)

## Description

Enhance your research workflow with the Google Scholar Search Engine extension. This handy tool integrates Google Scholar directly into your browser, allowing you to perform quick and easy academic searches without navigating away from your current page.

Ideal for students, researchers, and academics, this extension streamlines access to scholarly articles, research papers, and citations, making your study and research process more efficient.

## Rankings

- #1,690 — Overall
- #193 — Search Tools
- #12 — engine
- #18 — google search
- #67 — hold
- #71 — google

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Can change search providers, which could redirect searches to malicious sites, posing moderate risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users appreciate this add-on for enabling Google Scholar search directly from Firefox's search bar, filling a gap as Firefox lacks native support for adding such search engines. The add-on works well and meets expectations, though several users expressed frustration that Firefox does not integrate this functionality by default, necessitating reliance on third-party add-ons.

### Pros

- Adds Google Scholar as a search engine option in Firefox search bar.
- Functions as expected and meets user needs for searching Google Scholar.
- Provides a solution for adding search engines not currently integrated into Firefox by default.

### Cons

- Firefox does not natively support adding Google Scholar as a search engine, requiring the use of an add-on.
- Users wish Firefox had built-in capability to add custom search engines without add-ons.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/google-scholar-search-engine)