Scholarometer

Crowdsource field annotations and measure universal scholarly citation impact.
What is Scholarometer?
Scholarometer is a Firefox add-on that extends Google Scholar, allowing users to crowdsource field annotations and measure universal scholarly citation impact. By providing author field annotations, the tool evaluates the impact of an author's publications and compares the impact metric across fields.

Add-on stats

Users: 246 ▲ 5
Rating: 4.57 (7)
Version: 5.1.0 (Last updated: 2019-09-24)
Creation date: 2010-02-13
Weekly download count: NaN
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • http://scholar.google.com/
  • https://scholar.google.com/
  • https://scholarometer-test.cs.indiana.edu/
  • https://scholarometer.indiana.edu/
  • http://scholarometer-test.cs.indiana.edu/
  • http://scholarometer.indiana.edu/
  • storage
Size: 467.93K

Other platforms

Scholarometer (v5.4.0)
5.00 (2) 1,000
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Add-on summary

Scholarometer is a social platform that extends Google Scholar to facilitate scholarly citation analysis. You provide author field annotations, and our tool uses this crowdsourced data to evaluate the impact of an author's publications. Our impact metric can be compared across fields. Install the browser extension to use Scholarometer!

After installation, you will see the Scholarometer panel at the top right-hand side of any Google Scholar profile page.

Read more about the Scholarometer project here: http://scholarometer.indiana.edu

User reviews

Apparently doesn't take all data into account. Maybe it's only for the US. I tried a few researchers and none were found.
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Scholarometer requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Scholarometer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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