Best alternatives to Scholarometer (2026)
10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Scholarometer, 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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Lazy Scholar
Academic research assistant - find full-text PDFs, citations, and analyze papers
≈20K users4.1★ from 66 ratingsUpdated 10 months ago15 permissions- About 20× more users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (15 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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Scholar Plus
Utilities for Google Scholar
227 users5.0★ from 2 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years4 permissions- About 4.4× fewer users than Scholarometer
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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Google Scholar Filter
Filter articles by top system conferences
459 users5.0★ from 2 ratingsNot updated for 3+ years1 permissions- About 2.2× fewer users than Scholarometer
- Updated less recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (1 vs 7)
- Listed under Workflow & Planning
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ScholarX
Enhance your Google Scholar and PubMed experience with automatic display of detailed publication information.
158 usersNot rated yetUpdated 15 months ago10 permissions- About 6.3× fewer users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for more permissions (10 vs 7)
- 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 3000× more users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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ScholarShip - for Pubmed & Google Scholar
A pure extension for displaying and filtering PubMed/Google Scholar Impact Factors, updated with JCR 2025, CAS 2025, and CAS…
464 users5.0★ from 1 ratingUpdated 5 months ago2 permissions- About 2.2× fewer users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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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 10× more users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Education
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Elicit: AI for Scientific Research
Browser extension for use with Elicit.com
≈30K users4.5★ from 11 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago4 permissions- About 30× more users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (4 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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Scholar Journal Filter
Filter Google Scholar results by journal. Highlight, dim, or hide results based on a customizable journal whitelist or blacklist.
926 users5.0★ from 4 ratingsUpdated 8 months ago3 permissions- A similar number of users to Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (3 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
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Schoolar+ - Google Scholar Insights
Enhance Google Scholar profiles with h-index frontier analysis, citation changes, publication filters, and local history.
286 users5.0★ from 5 ratingsUpdated in the last day2 permissions- About 3.5× fewer users than Scholarometer
- Updated more recently
- Asks for fewer permissions (2 vs 7)
- Listed under Tools
Scholarometer alternatives: questions
What is the best alternative to Scholarometer?
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 Lazy Scholar.
Which Scholarometer 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 Scholarometer alternative that asks for fewer permissions?
Google Scholar Filter asks for 1 permissions, against 7 for Scholarometer.
How many alternatives to Scholarometer are there?
We list 10 close alternatives to Scholarometer 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.