LitRank: Literature Review for Google Scholar version history - 4 versions
LitRank: Literature Review for Google Scholar by Matily
LitRank: Literature Review for Google Scholar version history - 4 versions
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Latest version
Version 1.9.0
Released Oct 28, 2026 - 2.01 MBWorks with firefox 128.0 and laterNew name: LitRank — Literature Review for Google Scholar.
New: a search log for literature reviews. Turn it on for a database or publisher website — PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Embase and over 30 more — and LitRank records what you searched, the filters, how many results came back and when, ready for a Methods section and PRISMA-S. It is off until you turn it on, Firefox asks before it reads each site, and everything stays on your device.
New: journal ranks beyond Google Scholar. On Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect and OpenAlex, each result's journal gets its quartile, SJR score, country and open-access status — shown only where the journal can be identified exactly.
New: save any article page into your folder, from any publisher, with a right-click or Alt+Shift+L; save the PDF you have open the same way. Log the search on any results page with Alt+Shift+K.
New: a profile panel on Google Scholar author pages. Press "Analyse this author" and get the citation trend, journal ranks for every paper, top papers, keywords and subject areas — worked out in your browser from the profile itself. It ranks no one against anyone: it describes where the work appeared.
Changed: PDFs are saved one at a time. The bulk PDF buttons are gone: publishers block whole universities for automated downloading.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Older versions
Version 1.6.0
Released Aug 8, 2026 - 1.9 MBWorks with firefox 128.0 and laterSaved papers are now folders, on a dashboard that opens with your library
rather than an empty grid. Four figures across the top — how much you have
saved, how much of it is Q1, the median SJR, how much you can read for free —
and three charts: the quality of what you keep, when it was published, and
where you read most.
Folders sort by when you last saved to them, carry their own colour, and show
a quartile mix and median SJR at a glance. A default folder called My Research
now exists from the first launch, so your first save always has somewhere to
go.
New: a share card that draws a summary of your library as an image, on your
machine. Nothing is uploaded.
New: a short guide on first run, reachable afterwards from the dashboard.
Fixed: the first-author count on author profiles read the last word of a
display name as the surname, so anyone with "PhD" or "MD" after their name saw
0 papers regardless of how many they led. It now reads initials and surname
the way Google Scholar prints them, and tells two authors who share a surname
apart. Where a name cannot be read, the figure is left out rather than shown
as zero.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 1.5.0
Released Aug 5, 2026 - 1.89 MBWorks with firefox 128.0 and laterFixed: the bookmark stopped responding after applying a filter. It now works
without reloading the page.
Fixed: some conference papers were shown a journal's quartile. Where a venue is
ambiguous, LitRank now shows no badge rather than a possibly wrong one.
New: quartile trend, citations per year, how a paper compares to its own
journal, and — behind the "+" — category breadth, h-index and first indexed
year.
New: a research profile card on Scholar author pages. Press it to summarise
every publication: quartile mix, median SJR, open access share, recent topics,
venues, first-author count, output per year and most cited.Source code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only
Version 1.4.3
Released Aug 1, 2026 - 1.88 MBWorks with firefox 128.0 and laterSource code released under GNU General Public License v3.0 only