Scholar Spots

Enhances Google Scholar profile pages with additional publication data and cool visualizations.
What is Scholar Spots?
"Scholar Spots" is a powerful Chrome extension that enriches Google Scholar profiles by adding essential publication data and visualizations. It helps researchers, students, and academics analyze publication history, track citation trends, and measure the impact of scholarly work through interactive bubble charts. Unlock deeper insights into academic output and make data-driven decisions with this essential tool for research analysis.

Extension stats

Version: 0.6 (Last updated: 2024-11-18)
Creation date: 2024-10-29
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • webNavigation
  • sidePanel
Host permissions:
  • https://scholar.google.com/*
Size: 3.23M

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Extension summary

Unlock the full potential of Google Scholar profiles with Scholar Spots! This powerful Chrome extension enhances your research analysis by adding new publication data, e.g., publication type, average citations per year, peak citation period, citation trend, and the most frequent title words, all visualized through interactive, great-looking bubble charts!

With Spots, you can quickly analyze a researcher's publication history, track citation trends, and measure the impact of their work—all at a glance.

Whether you're a researcher, student, or academic, this tool helps you gain deeper insights into a scholar’s academic output.

If you enjoy using Spots, we'd love to hear your feedback! Please consider sending us an email, leaving a positive review, and sharing it with your friends and colleagues!

User reviews

by Sérgio Avellar, 2024-11-14

I suggest providing bibliometric indicators of the publication vehicle such as indexing criteria, impact factor, and open access for each paper (or categorize by these criteria). Congratulations on implementing of this extension!

by Augusto Carioca, 2024-11-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

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

Risk likelihood

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

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