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Research Assistant Chrome Extension Analysis

AI & Writing Assistants

Chrome extension ID: cfjgjfmfhkeoadplenlcmbjhjfeahlea

A browser extension that uses local AI to help researchers identify suitable journals for publication and find relevant literature for citations. It features a local library for self-overlap checks and requires no account or server-side uploads.

Developer:GradSummit
Version:0.1.0
Size:5.63MiB
Last updated:
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External:Chrome Web StoreOfficial website

Overview

Installs

0

Rating

★ —

0 reviews

Languages

1 locales

Includes English

Market analysis

Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.

No review samples found

Macro category

AI & Writing Assistants

Pricing friction

Low review signal

Complaint intensity

Low review signal

Listing & review signals
Observed signals from store listing text and review samples.

Listing positioning

The product is positioned as a privacy-first assistant for graduate students and early-career researchers. It emphasizes on-device processing to ensure manuscript privacy, offering tools for journal matching, prior-art discovery, and self-overlap checking.

Inferred product pattern

Privacy-centric local AI tool for academic discovery and drafting.

Review-backed pain points

Review-backed data is not available.

Observed feature gaps

No review data available to identify user-perceived gaps.

Tags
Academic ResearchJournal FinderPrivacy-First AICitation ToolLocal Processing
Target users

- Graduate students

- Early-career researchers

- Academic authors

Primary use cases

- Matching manuscript abstracts to appropriate academic journals

- Finding prior research for citations via PubMed, OpenAlex, and Crossref

- Checking for text overlap between current drafts and previous personal work

Positive themes

No positive theme data.

Negative themes

No negative theme data.

Observed friction

- No pricing friction observed; the listing claims the product is entirely free with no subscriptions or paid tiers.

Evidence boundary: Data extracted from the Chrome Web Store listing description. No user reviews available to validate claims or identify real-world performance.
Complaint summaries
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Support

Review-backed data is not available.

Reliability

Review-backed data is not available.

Privacy

Review-backed data is not available.

Access & pricing

- Free usage observed

- No account requirement observed

- Free plan or free usage claimed

Store listing facts

Listing assets

- Screenshots: 4

- Videos: 0

- Languages: 1

Trust signals

- Privacy policy

- Developer contact

- Official website

Store metadata

- Version: 0.1.0

- Size: 5.63MiB

- Last updated:

Listing SEO keywords

Search intent keywords
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Core discovery

journal matcherfind prior artacademic writing assistantlocal AI research tool

Comparison

Turnitin alternativeScopus alternativejournal finder comparison

Problem

where to publish my paperhow to find prior workself-plagiarism check

Alternative

research assistant extensionfree journal matching tooloffline academic AI

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Screenshots

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Links

Website: gradsummit.com

Privacy policy: https://www.gradsummit.com/privacy/

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