Scholarcy Browser Extension

Summarizes research articles, creates interactive flashcards, highlights key points, links to open-access versions of each citation

Scholarcy Browser Extension: Speed Up Research Process

Scholarcy Browser Extension is an innovative tool designed to assist researchers and students by summarizing complex academic articles and papers. It not only provides the key points in an easily digestible format but also generates interactive flashcards for better understanding. The Extension is capable of highlighting the crucial parts of a document and it can locate and link the open-access versions of each citation. It's an all-encompassing solution for those in academia who wish to streamline their research process.
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Extension stats

Users: 90,000+
Rating: 4.15
(40)
Version: 5.3.0 (Last updated: 2024-11-20)
Creation date: 2020-04-22
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • cookies
Host permissions:
  • https://*.scholarcy.com/*
Size: 1.76M

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Scholarcy Browser Extension (v5.3.0)
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Extension summary

Scholarcy™ is the solution to that pile of papers on your virtual desk. It can save up to 70% of the time needed to get the key information from an article, helping you with literature screening and reviews.

This Extension gives you the key points of any article or research paper you have open in your browser. It creates a referenced summary with important points highlighted and generates a background reading list for those new to a field.

Need to see how a paper builds on previous research? Our new 'Comparative Analysis' engine highlights this for you.

Subscribers to our premium app, Scholarcy Library, will get unlimited use of this Extension and can also save, share, annotate and export their Summary Flashcards.

Scholarcy locates open-access PDFs for each reference from Google Scholar, arXiv and elsewhere, and can also be configured to extract figures and tables.

To provide this service, our Extension needs to read and process the contents of the current web page. Alternatively, it will locate the PDF for the article. Use the new 'Source priority' option to switch between the HTML and PDF processing. For PDF files, the article must be open access. For more information on how we use this data, please read our FAQ: https://www.scholarcy.com/faq/ and Privacy Policy: https://www.scholarcy.com/privacy-policy/

User reviews

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
  • Ease of use and multiple formats for summarization
  • Effective in summarizing articles and providing key points
  • Increases efficiency and helps with research
  • Can be very useful for academic purposes, especially for students
Cons
  • Connection issues, requiring page refresh to work
  • Does not work well with articles behind paywalls or sign-in requirements
  • Inconsistent performance, sometimes outputting irrelevant data or code
  • Some users found it not as valuable for multi-article summaries
Most mentioned
  • Connection issues and server timeouts
  • Ease of use and effectiveness in summarizing
  • Problems with functionality on paywalled articles
User reviews
Doesn't work, I tried it on an article and said "could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist." EDIT it works if you refresh your page
by Mfist 08, 2024-09-30

Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.
by Goutham, 2024-07-08

by Zohreh Nasrollah, 2024-05-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Scholarcy Browser Extension requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Scholarcy Browser Extension has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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