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Lazy Scholar

By Colby Vorland

Academic research assistant - find full-text PDFs, citations, and analyze papers

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Time on the storeAbout 10 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

Store users≈20KRounded by the Chrome Web Store

Chrome Web Store rating4.1 / 566 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update10 Jan 2026Version 3.0.1, 9 months ago

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Reviews

Michael McGuire5 months ago
update stopped citations in chrome. now says [object] instead of authors ? ? ? ?
Kawaii_Karma3.7 years ago
I forgot I had downloaded this and was wondering why I could access academic articles on Chrome but not Firefox. This thing is currently saving me right now as I write an essay that has so many readings my univeristy doesn't have access to
Innocentius4.7 years ago
This extension always tries to download PDF file from Wikipedia pages even though I turned everything related to PDF off.
Jurij Fedorov5 years ago
Couldn't get it to work. It's also sluggish and fills up your browser tab.
YY Li8.2 years ago
雖說找到pdf很方便，但按了可沒有下載功能，除非某個網站把下載按鈕藏起來，不然實在雞肋阿
Yujie Yuan8.5 years ago
great tool for improving productivity of academic works.
Bin Zhi9.1 years ago
It is great, but it needs some improvement. It takes forever for it to show infos like an impact factor on some journals such as "Advances in Colloid and Interface Science". If there is no info in the database, can it just admit it and mark it as unknown instead of keep searching? Plus, maybe I was wrong but I think you should be able to find a complete list in excel file for impact factor somewhere on the internet.
Dave Suffling9.5 years ago
Runs automatically, even when it's configured not to. Since I can't turn it off without disabling the extension, I wonder what data it's sending out about my browsing habits!
ZM ZHU9.7 years ago
good！
T P10 years ago
It's a sine qua non tool for everyone that need to accelerate the search for important articles to research. Download it NOW and stop to spend your time.
Adam Li10 years ago
It's quite useful. But it keeps popping up automatically even when the options had all been set to "no". This is really annoying and unusable.
Familees10.2 years ago
Not sure how I ever did any assignments without it. Originally looking for Refworks this beats it hands down. the ability to find full text/PDF and associated papers are great. Don't forget it will cite the paper in which ever format you need, including the particular university style. Ie "Coventry-Harvard" or "DeMonfort-MLA". There's also the "related/suggested papers" tab which will find as it says on the tin related papers usually with full text and referencing. Could not recommend it enough.
Oliver Stringham10.5 years ago
I love the updates: ability to click to show, buttons for add to mendeley, sci hub and university library buttons too.
Carlos Rizo11.5 years ago
Cannot live without it, it just works
Jeff Kang11.6 years ago
Thank you! I just wish Google would allow an option to put a small "open access" symbol next to a search result to indicate which articles are free to read.