Reviews & Comments of Lazy Scholar chrome extension

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

This extension always tries to download PDF file from Wikipedia pages even though I turned everything related to PDF off.

Couldn't get it to work. It's also sluggish and fills up your browser tab.

great tool for improving productivity of academic works.

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.

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.

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!

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.

I love the updates: ability to click to show, buttons for add to mendeley, sci hub and university library buttons too.

Cannot live without it, it just works

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.

It was fine and great for a while. There was a recent update that has it saying that facebook is a predatory journal. ... not so much.

Great extension. Quite useful. Though the new predatory journal detection is kinda glitchy and shows up at random pages that are not journals at all. For instance if you try to view a page's source code, you'll see it pop up.

great app! helps a lot!

great idea and works most of the time. helps a lot if you or your library do not have access to certain journals. if you are lucky you will find full text versions of articles with this extension.

wow, One tedious process just got simpler and much faster! thanks alot!

It hardly ever found PDF documents for scholarly articles. I like the idea (that's why I gave it 3 stars), but in its current form, I did not find it useful at all. So I just decided to use extensions for reference manager systems (Mendeley, Zotero, etc.)

An excellent extension. I prefer to think of myself as efficient rather than lazy though!

This might be my first time reviewing a Chrome Extension... but this extension has transformed my research life, and it is totally worth five stars. And even though I try not to identify with "lazy", I definitely dislike having to jump through hoops when trying to glance through a few dozen papers to see if they touch on an idea I need to reference. Now... it's like... I'm SURFING between articles!

Great extension! It really does save time for locating and citing articles. Thanks!

Definitely a niche application could not get interface to work. Might be because I am not to familiar with this type of extension. I was looking for a simple program that allow me to view all links on a page and select which items I want to archive.

A simple idea done extremely well. An essential extension for serious work.

This app is awesome! It's incredibly easy to use and saves tones of time. Standing ovation for the developers!

Very helpful! I am in the middle of my dissertation and you just can't imagine how time saving your app is for me!

Incredibly useful for lazies like me. I do have institutional access, but a pain to logon. Much prefer from browser click. Thanks Colby! Y.F.