What is Rockstar Scholar?
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Researchers! Do you infrequently visit your Google Scholar profile page and struggle to identify which specific papers have increased in their citation count since your last visit? If so, then you are a Rockstar Scholar 🎸
Features: (1) Track citation changes for upto 700 papers on a Google Scholar profile page. (2) Citation tracking synchronized cross-browser via your Google account (if you're logged in to Chrome) (3) Selectively clear citation updates or let them accumulate over time.
To setup the citation tracking on a Google Scholar page: 1 - Install the browser extension: 2- Navigate to the Google Scholar profile that you want to track, and make it your Rockstar Scholar homepage. 3- Wait for the citations to roll in 4- Check back to your Rockstar Scholar homepage to determine the specific papers that increase/decrease in citation count. 5- Clear the reported citation count changes at the click of a button, or let them accumulate over time.
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Rockstar Scholar requires very minimum permissions.
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Rockstar Scholar is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.
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