Best alternatives to Scholar Spots (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Scholar Spots, 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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Scholar Spots alternatives, compared
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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 10× fewer users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (0 vs 4)
- Listed under Functionality & UI
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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- About 2.0× more users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 4)
- Listed under Tools
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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 300× more users than Scholar Spots
- Updated less recently
- Listed under Tools
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Scholar H-Index Calculator for Google Chrome™
Scholar H-Index Calculator enhances Google Scholar with bibliometric analysis tools and much more
≈10K users4.3★ from 54 ratingsUpdated 5 weeks ago4 permissions- A similar number of users to Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Listed under Tools
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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 10× fewer users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (58 vs 4)
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GScholarLENS
Advanced Insights into Google Scholar Profiles.
≈5K users3.1★ from 12 ratingsUpdated 14 months ago82 permissions- About 2.0× fewer users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (82 vs 4)
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OneScholar
【OneScholar】超级好用的学术科研插件，全方位提高科研工作者的科研效率，支持显示详细文章信息、期刊等级信息、大学分类排名信息、网页翻译、文章引用等功能（原 SciHub Addon）
≈20K users4.2★ from 19 ratingsUpdated 2 days ago6 permissions- About 2.0× more users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (6 vs 4)
- Listed under Tools
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Right-Click Search Google Scholar
This extension searches for selected text on Google Scholar via right-click and shows the result on a new 'passive' tab
≈1K users5.0★ from 3 ratingsUpdated 19 months ago1 permissions- About 10× fewer users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 4)
- Listed under Tools
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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 5.0× fewer users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (196 vs 4)
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SINTA & SCOPUS Scholar Checker
Tampilkan akreditasi SINTA, kuartil Scopus, status DOAJ Open Access, dan deteksi jurnal predator di Google Scholar
≈4K users5.0★ from 11 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago25 permissions- About 2.5× fewer users than Scholar Spots
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (25 vs 4)
Scholar Spots alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Scholar Spots?
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 Scholar Highlights.
Which Scholar Spots 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 Scholar Spots alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Scholar Highlights asks for 0 permissions, against 4 for Scholar Spots.
How many alternatives to Scholar Spots are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Scholar Spots 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.