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Lazy Scholar

by Colby Vorland

v3.0.1 Updated Jan 10, 2026 17.87MiB
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Description

Lazy Scholar - Academic Research Assistant Lazy Scholar automatically detects scientific articles as you browse and provides instant access to full-text PDFs, citation and journal metrics, research integrity checks, and much more: FIND FULL-TEXT ACCESS Stop hitting paywalls. Lazy Scholar searches multiple sources simultaneously: • PubMed Central (PMC) - Free official versions • Europe PMC - Open access and author manuscripts • Open Access repositories • Direct PDF links CITATION METRICS AT A GLANCE • Citation counts from Google Scholar, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar • Influential citations - papers that heavily cite this work • Citation percentile - see how this paper ranks in its field • Web attention - mentions on Reddit, Twitter/X, Wikipedia, news, and blogs • Related papers recommendations JOURNAL CHECKS • Scimago Journal Rank (SJR) quartile ratings • Predatory journal warnings (Beall's List) • Citejacked journal alerts (paper mill detection) RESEARCH INTEGRITY • Retraction alerts - know immediately if a paper was retracted • Expression of Concern notices • Published corrections and errata • Preregistration detection • PubPeer comments - post-publication peer review • Hypothesis annotations ADVANCED RIGOR ANALYSIS • Tortured phrase detection • Suspect fingerprint scanning - detects template text, common paper mill patterns • Reference verification - checks if cited papers actually exist in CrossRef CITATION FORMATTING • One-click citations in 6 styles • Export to reference managers SIDEBAR ANALYSIS PANEL • References tab - view all citations, verify they exist, check for retractions • Outline extraction - automatic section parsing (Abstract, Methods, Results, etc.) • Data & code links - find supplementary materials and repositories • Statistical extraction - p-values, confidence intervals, test statistics CONVENIENCE FEATURES • Right-click to search Google Scholar or PubMed • Omnibox search - type "ls" then your query • One-click PDF download WORKS ON • Any scholarly article! PERFECT FOR • Graduate students and postdocs • Faculty and researchers • Librarians and information specialists • Science journalists • Anyone reading academic literature --- Note: Please report bugs! I welcome any feedback: Colby Vorland: colby.vorland at gmail | @LazyScholarExt | lazyscholar.org
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Reviews (9 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-17
Innocentius

This extension always tries to download PDF file from Wikipedia pages even though I turned everything related to PDF off.

★☆☆☆☆2021-10-18
Jurij Fedorov

Couldn't get it to work. It's also sluggish and fills up your browser tab.

★☆☆☆☆2014-09-08
Susanne Elisabeth Haslund Sørensen

this did not work for me. tried 10 mins.

★☆☆☆☆2014-01-25
John Mutch

Definitely a niche application could not get interface to work. Might be because I am not to familiar with this type of extension. I was looking for a simple program that allow me to view all links on a page and select which items I want to archive.

★★★☆☆2017-04-20
David Suffling

Runs automatically, even when it's configured not to. Since I can't turn it off without disabling the extension, I wonder what data it's sending out about my browsing habits!

★★★☆☆2016-10-12
Adam Li

It's quite useful. But it keeps popping up automatically even when the options had all been set to "no". This is really annoying and unusable.

★★★☆☆2015-03-02
Heather Matthews

It was fine and great for a while. There was a recent update that has it saying that facebook is a predatory journal. ... not so much.

★★★☆☆2014-05-04
Géza Kiss

It hardly ever found PDF documents for scholarly articles. I like the idea (that's why I gave it 3 stars), but in its current form, I did not find it useful at all. So I just decided to use extensions for reference manager systems (Mendeley, Zotero, etc.)

★★★☆☆2014-03-10
Corrado Mencar

An interesting application but a bit too intrusive (especially in PDF download). Also it is too slow

Permissions (13)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks clipboardWrite Can write to your clipboard contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads idle Can detect when you're away from the computer notifications Can show desktop notifications scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs unlimitedStorage webNavigation Can monitor navigation events webRequest Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 3.0.1
Updated Jan 10, 2026
Size 17.87MiB
First Seen Mar 25, 2026