Lazy Scholar

Lazy Scholar is available for free on Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/lazy-sc… and Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…

... a validation check of each reference to see that it exists at all in scholarly databases, and self-citation count. Text is automatically screened for fingerprints such as 'tortured phrases', thanks to the Problematic Paper Screener. More coming soon!

Lazy Scholar 3.0 launched! This version is a complete rewrite of the extension, making it much cleaner and faster. Details: lazyscholar.org/2026/01/10/laz…

An updated version of Lazy Scholar for Chrome will be rolling out in the next week or two. This update addresses recent changes to Chrome browser extensions to keep the main parts of it working. Some features unfortunately may no longer work until I find time to rewrite them.

@ljhgeist glad to hear it is helpful!

@LazyScholarExt I don't know if you are still working on this extension, but I hope so. I just found it today and I wanted to say thank you! Huge huge huge help

Version 2.6.0 rolling out now to Chrome and Firefox adds a side panel button (can be disabled in options) and improves PDF scanning, among other minor changes. See the notes here: lazyscholar.org/2020/06/14/ver…

@dan_marinazzo @mariam_s_aly @thenicholasruiz will look into improving this!

Today I learned that the google scholar extension in Chrome lets you easily extract formatted citations 😮 Just click on the " button. Thanks to @thenicholasruiz for this discovery!!

@lisalibrarian Interesting idea- will think about if this is possible!

This seems amazing to me. What would be really awesome is if I could send the ones being closed to zotero, mendeley or ...

These features are rolling out to the Chrome beta version, but aren't all thoroughly tested yet. After I debug each, I will roll them out one at a time to the main extension within the coming months. Any other suggestions on what would be helpful are welcome!

OR you tell LS to automatically open a set number of tabs that cycle through your archived papers however often you want, with various options for which ones to open. Your papers at not gone for good, and you can deal with them in smaller numbers.

For years I have struggled with TAB OVERLOAD. Too many interesting papers, too little time. Closing them all is just too painful. So, I built a system within Lazy Scholar that I will actually use to keep my browser manageable (yes, I have a problem). -Thread-