GScholarLENS version history - 12 versions
GScholarLENS by Vishvesh Karthik, SharmaG Lab, Indupalli Sishir Anand
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Latest version
Version 1.8.8
Released 10 Sep 2025 - 3.12 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 120.0 and laterAdded: Total adjusted citation count to the statistics panelSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
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Version 1.8.7
Released 10 Jun 2025 - 3.12 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 120.0 and later- Fixed bugs with Sh-Index after sorting
- Added cat companions
Source code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.7.7
Released 13 May 2025 - 3.12 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later, android 120.0 and later- Fixed many bugs - total authors, co-author weightage, publication machine banner, fixes for unanimazing functionality for chrome and firefox
- Added - Multithreading
Source code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.4.15
Released 5 May 2025 - 3.2 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and laterFixed: 'Publication Machine' banner threshold checkSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.4.14
Released 5 May 2025 - 3.19 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and laterFixed: Co-Author Weightage attributions.
Added: 'Publication Machine' bannerSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.4.11
Released 25 Apr 2025 - 3.19 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later- Added badges for 5 year Impact Factor & Ranking of Journals
- Fixed Co-Authorship citation adjustment
Source code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.3.9
Released 17 Feb 2025 - 3.66 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later- Optimized Retraction Checks
- Fixed rendering bugs of decade plot
- Fixed CSS
- Updated Sh-Index and other metrics to ignore retracted papers
Source code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.2.6
Released 7 Feb 2025 - 3.66 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later- Added feature to label retracted papers from RetractionWatchDB
- Fixed bugs with plot images, table CSS
- Added decade plot and metric table
- Renamed extension to GScholarLENS to prevent collision with another existing tool
Source code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.0.2
Released 13 Jan 2025 - 3.65 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later* Updated Sh-Index calculation to used weighted normalized citation counts per authorship position
* Added extra columns in TSV file object for weight adjusted citations, weightage & total authorsSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.0.1
Released 2 Jan 2025 - 3.65 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later* Updated extension landing/help page
* Caching fetch() per-session to reduce repeated lookups
* Introducing Sh-Index - A metric similar to h-Index but based on weighted citation counts for each authorship position
* Other Names field in Google Scholar is also used while assigning contributions
* Fixed a few bugs here and thereSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 1.0.0
Released 17 Dec 2024 - 3.59 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and later* Added yearwise sliders to slice data by year(s)
* Other Names field is now considered
* Fixed some minor bugsSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0
Version 0.90.4
Released 21 Nov 2024 - 3.59 MBWorks with firefox 109.0 and laterSource code released under Mozilla Public Licence 2.0