Best alternatives to OneScholar (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to OneScholar, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.
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OneScholar alternatives, compared
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Google Scholar Button
Lookup scholarly articles as you browse the web.
≈3M users4.5★ from 1.4K ratingsNot updated for 2+ years4 permissions- About 150× more users than OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)
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Scholar Spots
Enhances Google Scholar profile pages with additional publication data and cool visualizations.
≈10K users5.0★ from 10 ratingsUpdated 24 months ago4 permissions- About 2.0× fewer users than OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)
- Listed under Education
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Lazy Scholar
Academic research assistant - find full-text PDFs, citations, and analyze papers
≈20K users4.1★ from 66 ratingsUpdated 10 months ago15 permissions- A similar number of users to OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 6)
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GScholarLENS
Advanced Insights into Google Scholar Profiles.
≈5K users3.1★ from 12 ratingsUpdated 14 months ago82 permissions- About 4.0× fewer users than OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (82 vs 6)
- Listed under Education
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easyScholar
显示各种文献排名，并且提供翻译、文献收藏功能，助力科研。
≈300K users3.9★ from 93 ratingsUpdated in the last day4 permissions- About 15× more users than OneScholar
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 6)
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Scholar Highlights
Highlights first, co-first, and last author publications on Google Scholar.
≈1K users4.8★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 9 months agoNo special permissions- About 20× fewer users than OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 6)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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ORBIT Scholar Grade Overlay
Displays ORBIT journal grades next to Google Scholar results.
≈1K usersNot rated yetUpdated 2 months agoNo special permissions- About 20× fewer users than OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 6)
- Listed under Education
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Scholar Utility Belt for Google Scholar
Personal productivity tools for Google Scholar with minimal extra requests.
≈1K users4.5★ from 16 ratingsUpdated 4 days ago58 permissions- About 20× fewer users than OneScholar
- Asks for more permissions (58 vs 6)
- Listed under Education
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Scholarometer
Browser Extension for Academic Impact Analysis
≈1K users5.0★ from 2 ratingsNot updated for 2+ years7 permissions- About 20× fewer users than OneScholar
- Updated less recently
- Asks for more permissions (7 vs 6)
- Listed under Communication
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Google Scholar Venue Ranker (GSVR)
Adds DBLP-verified CORE/SJR venue ranks, raw GSVR scores, completeness diagnostics, and reports to Scholar profiles.
≈2K users4.4★ from 8 ratingsUpdated 7 weeks ago196 permissions- About 10× fewer users than OneScholar
- Asks for more permissions (196 vs 6)
- Listed under Education
OneScholar alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to OneScholar?
By users, the most popular alternative is Google Scholar Button with ≈3M users and a 4.5-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Google Scholar Button.
Which OneScholar alternative has the best rating?
Google Scholar Button has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.5 out of 5 from 1.4K ratings.
Is there a OneScholar alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Scholar Highlights asks for 0 permissions, against 6 for OneScholar.
How many alternatives to OneScholar are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to OneScholar on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.
Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.