# Scholar Spots

> Enhances Google Scholar profile pages with additional publication data and cool visualizations.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `scholar-spots`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nabor Mendonca
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 22
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.7
- **Last updated:** 2024-11-26
- **First published:** 2024-11-25
- **Size:** 3.11 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/scholar-spots/)

## Description

Enhances Google Scholar profile pages with additional publication data and cool visualizations.

Unlock the full potential of Google Scholar profiles with Scholar Spots! This powerful Firefox add-on 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!

## Rankings

- #23,605 — Overall
- #42 — hot spot
- #214 — trend
- #226 — hold

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webNavigation`

### Host permissions

- `https://scholar.google.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `scholar.google.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: google.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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