Lazy Scholar Lazy Scholar

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Version: 2.6.0
Last Update: 2020-06-15

Overview

Lazy Scholar is a Chrome extension developed by Colby Vorland. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Lazy Scholar is 2.6.0, updated on 2020-06-15.
10,000+ users have installed this extension. 63 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: lazyscholar.org

Automatic check for full text, details, and metrics of scientific articles, plus comments, citations, fast sharing and more.

Lazy Scholar automatically searches for a freely available full text the instant you open a scientific paper. In use, it finds one 36-41% of the time*. NEW: Lazy Scholar can deep link with your institution to find full texts even when you're off campus. In addition, it attempts to extract helpful information about the paper if relevant such as quick links to the population, intervention, outcomes, measurements, funding statement, outline, references, abbreviations, and supplemental documents. Further, it checks for comments on the paper in PubPeer, provides various citation metrics on the paper and journal, and one-click citation styles, including a preformed powerpoint style.

Features in further detail:

-Infobar automatically appears when a paper is opened & tells you if a free full text is available, and provides various metrics & comments, along with fast citations.
-This can be turned off and you can click the browser button for these.
-Type "LS" in the address bar and quickly query Google Scholar, PubMed, or Web of Science.
-Search your paper history with natural language.
-Get new PubMed listing recommendations - Lazy Scholar learns your research preferences automatically based on what papers you open.
-Citation count (GScholar's, Web of Science, and Altmetric.com score).
-PubPeer comment count
-Journal ranking
-Attempts to find a contact email address for the paper you are searching
-Auto generated sharing links (Twitter, email, Mendeley, Endnote, RefWorks, etc)
-Fast copying of citation to clipboard (over 900 citation styles, including a short citation for PowerPoint slides).
-Paper details listed in PubMed search results if available.
-Highlight text on a page, right click, "Search Google Scholar" for fast searching.
-Automatically checks Beall's list of predatory journals and notifies of a match
-Quick link to hypothes.is annotation layer
-Recommended citations from citepeer.io
-Optional check for preregistration through ClinicalTrials.gov, ISRCTN registry, ANZCTR registry, OSF.io, AsPredicted.org, and PROSPERO
-Option to block non-scholarly websites for 1 hour to reduce online distractions :)

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Note: Please report bugs! I welcome any feedback:
Colby Vorland: colby.vorland at gmail | @LazyScholarExt | lazyscholar.org

*More statistics here: http://www.lazyscholar.org/2017/10/06/new-statistics-on-full-text-availability-using-lazy-scholar/

Rating

63 ratings

Total Installs

10,000+

Information

Last Update

2020-06-15

Current Version

2.6.0

Size

9.47MiB

Author

Colby Vorland

Website

lazyscholar.org

Category

Search Tools

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avatar Innocentius
2022-01-17

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

avatar Jurij Fedorov
2021-10-18

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

avatar 李Yi
2018-08-15

雖說找到pdf很方便,但按了可沒有下載功能,除非某個網站把下載按鈕藏起來,不然實在雞肋阿

avatar Yujie Yuan
2018-04-09

great tool for improving productivity of academic works.

avatar Bin Zhi
2017-08-24

It is great, but it needs some improvement. It takes forever for it to show infos like an impact factor on some journals such as "Advances in Colloid and Interface Science". If there is no info in the database, can it just admit it and mark it as unknown instead of keep searching? Plus, maybe I was wrong but I think you should be able to find a complete list in excel file for impact factor somewhere on the internet.