Journal Watch

Puts a WARNING tag on some journals on Google Scholar and PubMed. Also allows filtering by impact factor on PubMed.

Journal Watch: Chrome Extension for Flagging Suspicious Journals on Scholar and PubMed

Journal Watch is a Chrome extension that flags search results on Google Scholar and PubMed from journals on a watch list. These journals may have inadequate peer review or lack fundamental standards of scientific publishing integrity. Additionally, the extension allows filtering of PubMed results by journal impact factor.
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Manifest V2
By: dcraig
Users: 382
4
Rating: 3.00
(2)
Version: 1.43 (Last updated: 2017-10-09)
Creation date: 2017-10-09
Permissions:
  • *://davidcraigmd.org/*
  • storage
Size: 45.06K
Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 44,967 ▲ 78
Other rankings
#25551 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 816 #84 in watch keyword 20 ▲ 8

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

Extension safety

Risk impact

Journal Watch requires very minimum permissions.

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