Is Altmetric for Pubmed and Google Scholar safe?
Altmetric for Pubmed and Google Scholar sends page .docsum-pmid text to api.altmetric.com as PubMed IDs.
The extension's content script runs on every site and, outside Google Scholar pages, looks for elements with the .docsum-pmid class. It reads the text from those elements and places it in PubMed lookup requests to Altmetric, so matching DOM text can be sent from pages beyond PubMed itself.
Part of this rating comes from analysis signals we haven't published as detailed findings yet.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
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Read and change your data on every secure site you visit
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Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Altmetric for Pubmed and Google Scholar contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- api.altmetric.com
Altmetric for Pubmed and Google Scholar sends data to api.altmetric.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.