Checking PubMed Commons

Yesterday, PubMed’s new comments system, PubMed Commons, went public. If you are staring at a paper from a journal’s website, it would be tedious to open PubMed just to check if there are comments on it there. Lazy Scholar now does it automatically, in...

Find a paper contact email & cite counts

I am on a bit of a coding spree lately, and added 2 new features to Lazy Scholar that appear in version 0.7.0, just pushed out: finding a contact email for a paper, and citation counts. By default, finding a contact email address is turned off (turn on in Options) as...

Fast citation copying & sending to reference managers

Lazy Scholar gets an update today to version 0.6 with 2 new features: citation copying and saving to reference managers. Now when you click the browser button, text links will be appended to the bottom of the popup. By default, APA formatting appears, but you can turn...

Fast Saving to Google Scholar Library

Google Scholar put out an update this week with a new feature: Library. It allows you to save references in a folder on the Google Scholar page and organize by tags. This is useful, but requires you to be on Google Scholar to save them – until now. For example,...

Renaming PDF filenames

I’ve released an update to Lazy Scholar today (version 0.4.0) that adds a new feature: renaming PDF filenames. Usually when you download a PDF from a journal it looks something like “ioi80118_2268_2275.pdf”. This is not helpful when you are trying to...