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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

5

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
Keyword signals for evaluating how users may discover, compare, or search for this extension category.

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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