Lazy Scholar

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• Retraction alerts - know immediately if a paper was retracted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

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