Lazy Scholar
Browser Extension
Finds free scholarly full texts, metrics, and provides quick citation and sharing links automatically. And much more…
Automatic Full Text Search
Open any scholarly article and Lazy Scholar gets to work searching for a free full text.
New Recommendations
Lazy Scholar can learn what topics you like to read and scans new PubMed listings to suggest new papers.
Metrics
Lazy Scholar provides various citation metrics. (Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Web of Science; Impact factor, Altmetric, etc)
Search History
Can’t find that paper you opened yesterday? Lazy Scholar saves your history and provides an interface to find it.
Quick Citation
A pre-formed citation available in over 900 citation styles.
Related Papers
Quickly identify other papers you may want to read.
And more…
Custom Settings
If you are at an institution, Lazy Scholar can preform EZProxy urls when you open an article. In addition, choose from over 900 citation styles, including a custom “PowerPoint” style to quicky copy/paste into your slides.
New PubMed Recommendations
Lazy Scholar learns what you like to read, and scans all new PubMed abstracts daily to give you ranked suggestions of what to read.
(Feature Optional)
PubMed Shortcuts
When you search PubMed, Lazy Scholar checks its database for impact factors, citation metrics, and full text links.
(Feature Optional)
Search Paper History
Lazy Scholar automatically saves your paper history and provides an interface to search for papers you’ve opened.
Download (100% Free)
Available for Chrome and Firefox*
Blog Updates
How Lazy Scholar now costs ~$1 per month to run
Note: I don't have a background in backend web development (or programming in general for that matter), but I've had to do some quick learning recently to mitigate the growing cost of running Lazy Scholar. I hope this post will serve to help others save time and...
read moreLazy Scholar for Chrome 1.4: Paper details in PubMed search results
Today's update to 1.4.0 adds impact factors, free full text checks, and citation count information under each PubMed search result, when available. This feature can be turned off in Options. Future iterations will add more information. This version also makes a couple...
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