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ResearchQ

by stardate97

v1.2.7 Updated Feb 20, 2026 52.66KiB
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★ 4.20
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Description

Update Feb 2026: Updated to working mirror links for SciHub and Anna's Archive. Note: Since SciHub is banned is few countries now, use VPN or Tor to access the links. A simple extension to help research work that does the following: 1. Using context menu (right-click): 1.1 Redirect to Scihub page of research paper 1.2 Redirect to Anna's Archive page of research paper 1.3 Search for the selected article on Google Scholar 1.4 Direct download article, if available on Scihub, with filename saved as title of article 1.5 Find meaning, noun and pos tag of a selected English word from dictionary 2. Using keyboard shortcut 3.1 Alt+Q - opens current window URL quickly in incognito mode and deletes that url record from the browser history. (P.S: The permission to manage browser history is for this purpose).
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Reviews (2 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-08-01
WAN MUHAMMAD AZIM BIN WAN ABDUL AZIZ

not working

★★★☆☆2025-05-24
Dr. Waqar Ahmad Awan

It was a very useful development but not working now. Actually, SciHub domain name is changed from time to time. There must be an option where I (user) could add the latest working SciHub domain name where the click would take us to. Moreover, Libgen can be added alongwith SciHub.

Permissions (4)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads history Can read and modify your browsing history tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 1.2.7
Updated Feb 20, 2026
Size 52.66KiB
First Seen Mar 26, 2026