Free Chrome extension
Scholar Utility Belt
Scholar Utility Belt is a free Chrome extension that adds journal quality badges, citation velocity, author metrics, lineage trees and retraction alerts to Google Scholar results. The ranking lists ship inside the extension, so nothing you search leaves your browser.
About 1,000 researchers use it. Rated 4.5 out of 5 from 16 ratings on the Chrome Web Store.
What it adds
Context next to every result
Journal quality badges
ABDC, FT50, UTD24 and SJR rankings shown beside each result, so you can see where a paper appeared without looking the venue up.
Citation velocity
How quickly each paper is being cited, shown next to its total citation count.
Author metrics
h-index and g-index for authors, shown on their Google Scholar profiles.
Academic lineage
Academic lineage trees that place an author among their advisors and students.
Retraction alerts
A visible warning on results that have been retracted, before you cite them.
Private by design
No account, no analytics, no remote lookups for rankings. MIT-licensed, so you can read exactly what it does.
From the same studio
Found the papers. Now write yours.
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