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Scholarcy Browser Extension

by scholarcy-chrome-extension-developers

v5.4.0 Updated Mar 14, 2026 805KiB
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★ 4.05
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Description

Scholarcy™ is the solution to that pile of papers on your virtual desk. It can save up to 70% of the time needed to get the key information from an article, helping you with literature screening and reviews. This Extension gives you the key points of any article or research paper you have open in your browser. It creates a referenced summary with important points highlighted and generates a background reading list for those new to a field. Need to see how a paper builds on previous research? Our new 'Comparative Analysis' engine highlights this for you. Subscribers to our premium app, Scholarcy Library, will get unlimited use of this Extension and can also save, share, annotate and export their Summary Flashcards. Scholarcy locates open-access PDFs for each reference from Google Scholar, arXiv and elsewhere, and can also be configured to extract figures and tables. To provide this service, our Extension needs to read and process the contents of the current web page. Alternatively, it will locate the PDF for the article. Use the new 'Source priority' option to switch between the HTML and PDF processing. For PDF files, the article must be open access. For more information on how we use this data, please read our FAQ: https://www.scholarcy.com/faq/ and Privacy Policy: https://www.scholarcy.com/privacy-policy/
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Reviews (7 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-08
Goutham

Could not establish connection. Receiving end does not exist.

★☆☆☆☆2023-08-04
Utsha Saha

Useless thing, after a lot of tries I was enable to generate some presentation, but the presentation was full with javascript code. now im wondering if this is some sort of virus. Reported to google.

★☆☆☆☆2019-11-14
Rabbits & Tea (Fairydust)

doesnt work, unusable, forces sign up

★★☆☆☆2024-03-25
Amro Shihadah

If you are like in academia and want to manually upload a ton of stuff this is for you -- the ChatGPT integrated LLM is not valuable and the plugin really has not added any value for me yet.. Id love to be proven wrong but I feel like the pitch was access 100M+ research papers and scientific etc... I have had to find and upload them myself and the research I was provided in return was almost useless practically. So I learned but it was not actionable at all = academia summarized pretty clearly!

★★☆☆☆2021-07-06
Natalia E. López Adames

It used to work almost a month ago, but clicking on the extension does nothing now. It used to summarize...

★★☆☆☆2021-05-26
P. Olivier

Used to work but now clicking on the extension does not do anything...

★★★☆☆2023-07-12
Emily Smith

Works fine on articles which are available online however does not seem to work on article behind a sign in wall. Tried a few different sites where I have an account and I can view the articles in my browser but for some reason the extension will not do anything. Not ideal considering most articles used on degrees are behind university sign in points.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension cookies Can read and modify browser cookies storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 5.4.0
Updated Mar 14, 2026
Size 805KiB
First Seen Mar 21, 2026