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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

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Ambrish singh2024年3月19日
4

This extension is truly fantastic! It streamlines tasks, saving you considerable time and effort while simplifying the process of reading a research papers. However, there is room for improvement as it currently lacks the option to highlight text in PDFs. Since highlighting is a common practice during research paper reading, many users may still find themselves resorting to Adobe PDF Reader for this functionality. Dr Ambrish Singh

Version 0.1.0Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
em c2024年3月19日
5

Great and very easy to use, makes navigating research papers much easier. Would love for it to have editorial options like highlighting text and adding comments like Microsoft Edge does

Version 0.1.0Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Teddy van Jerry2024年3月19日
5

Great extension! A great update to the old-fashioned Google Scholar :-) I love the integration of citation support, which significantly helps me navigate through papers. The dark mode and night mode are fabulous for programming lovers! If highlighting and comments are added to the functions it will be even nicer! Besides, the link can sometimes have incorrect offsets.

Version 0.1.0Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
Ahmed Eladawy2024年3月19日
5

VERY LATE

Version 0.1.0Language en
0 helpful · 5 not helpful
Safwan Al-Selwi (Saf1)2024年3月19日
5

Finally, an extension that will ease our reading routines.

Version 0.1.0Language en
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Scott Powell2024年3月19日
4

Very nice and something I can see myself using regularly. One suggestion: I read many articles published by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). AMS formatting for references is such that if a first author is cited in more than one paper, then their name shows up as –––– in the reference list after the first article by that author in the reference list. For example, suppose I cited three of my papers. We'll call them Powell (2023), Powell and Doe (2024), and Powell et al. (2012). In the reference list in an AMS journal, they will show up like this: Powell, S. W., 2023: Paper title number 1 and other info.... ––––, and J. Doe, 2024: Paper title number 2 and other info... ––––, J. Smith, and Q. Doe, 2012: Paper title number 3 and other info.... Only the links to Powell (2023) would work in the PDF. Powell and Doe (2024) and Powell et al. (2012) would not get linked because the extension doesn't know that the –––– stands for Powell, S. W.

Version 0.1.0Language en
3 helpful · 0 not helpful
Charlie Li2024年3月19日
5

Super nice extension! Can totally see this complimenting/replacing paperpile. Good job!

Version 0.1.0Language en
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Dan2024年3月18日
4

Just started using it and seems like a strong PDF reader. Would be nice if it had ability to highlight and make comments and to load PDFs from your computer into it.

Version 0.1.0Language en
5 helpful · 0 not helpful
SUFENG WEN2024年3月17日
5

体验超级好,暗黑模式是惊喜。 如果能添加批注功能就最好了(高亮文本,做笔记)

Version 0.1.0Language zh
15 helpful · 1 not helpful
Jon Barron2024年3月13日
5

Love it! Open any PDF on arxiv or whatever and it provides buttons linking back to the google scholar page, to a bibtex, etc. So helpful.

Version 0.0.25Language en
1 helpful · 0 not helpful