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Google Scholar PDF Reader

Supercharge your paper reading: follow references, skim outline, jump to figures, cite and save.

Users1MCurrent public install base
Rating4.1Store average score
Reviews696Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
7-day growth-1MNet users gained this week
7-day growth rate-50%Relative weekly velocity
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Version0.4.9
ManifestV3
Size3.54MiB
Languages41Deutsch / English / Filipino +38
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DeutschEnglishFilipinoIndonesiaNederlandsTiếng ViệtTürkçecatalàdanskespañolespañol (Latinoamérica)français
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When you install Scholar Reader, PDFs on all sites will have a new look in Chrome. To make this happen, Chrome will ask for permissions to read and change data on all sites. Scholar Reader makes no changes other than the presentation of PDFs.

• Preview references as you read. Click the in-text citation to see a summary and find the PDF.

• Read faster with the AI outline. Get a quick overview and click on interesting bullets to jump within the paper.

• Highlight and comment on PDFs. Highlights are saved to your Scholar library.

• Make it right for your eyes with light, dark, and night modes.

• Copy and paste common citation formats without leaving the paper.

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Store average score4.1Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average3.9Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text524Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews696Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

Store average score: 4.1. The bars below are calculated from synced review text only, so they may be empty for extensions that have public ratings but no synced comments yet.

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Sayani Konar2024年3月20日
3

This is surely going to be a useful tool for researchers in future. However, at this point it is in a very preliminary stage. As mentioned by others, the highlight feature is a must and needs to be introduced. Besides, there should be more background colour options. I find it difficult to read in both black and white background and prefer a grey background with black font colour. In that way the contrast between the background colour and the font colour isn't too much and it doesn't hurt my eyes.

Version 0.1.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Kewen L2024年3月20日
3

the outline has some problems

Version 0.1.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Jonathan Morgan2024年3月20日
2

Great that it has easy citation links but, to convince me to switch, I would have needed highlighting capability, note taking, and integration with Zotero or Mendelay. I guess it's early days and that these features may be in the pipeline.

Version 0.1.0Language en
7 helpful · 1 not helpful
Sabyasachi Ghosh2024年3月20日
4

Nicely done. The sidebar is also very sleek. Night mode for the PDF is good! Feedback/Suggestions: (1) Google Scholar does not give DOI and often abbreviates more than 6-7 authors as "and others" in their downloadable BibTeX. It will be very useful if full info can be given in the BibTeX entry on a best-effort basis, at least from sources which provided it (like IEEE, Elsevier, etc). (2) While the add-on works with in-text citations, the References list at the end of the pdf do not have the google scholar popup! Would be useful for quickly scrolling through the references and abstracts.

Version 0.1.0Language en
2 helpful · 0 not helpful
Mohanrasu S S2024年3月20日
5

Nice one.

Version 0.1.0Language en
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Shinsaku Sakaue2024年3月20日
5

Excellent! I can’t wait this incorporated into Paperpile!

Version 0.1.0Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful
Md. Arshadul Islam2024年3月20日
3

Kindly add the Text Highlight option. To be able to highlight text is super important.

Version 0.1.0Language en
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yx L2024年3月20日
5

Nice!

Version 0.1.0Language en
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Kinjal Parikh2024年3月19日
3

This is great! Need to be able to highlight and annotate research papers while reading though.

Version 0.1.0Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Cedrik Menard2024年3月19日
4

Works great. Just seems to be missing the ability to highlight text.

Version 0.1.0Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful