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. Lazy Scholar can even integrate with your library to find full texts even when you’re off campus.
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; Journal rank, 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.
Extractions
Lazy Scholar can attempt to extract references, PICO information, abbreviations, and more from PDFs and non-PDFs.
(beta)
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 journal rank, 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.
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Blog Updates
Impact Factors removed, CiteScore added
Due to a legal demand, impact factors have been removed from Lazy Scholar. For now, I have replaced them with Elsevier's CiteScore metric, which is similar to how the impact factor is calculated, with an important difference in that it includes other types of...
read moreResearchGate-gate: potential impact on free full texts
Nature News reports that ResearchGate take-down notices are imminent and perhaps already occurring which threatens to lower the percent of papers that are available to freely view on the web. How much of an impact might this have? I analyzed the recent Lazy Scholar...
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