Is Rapid Journal Quality Check safe?
Rapid Journal Quality Check sends Google Scholar result metadata to Crossref and DBLP for journal ranking lookups.
When enabled on Google Scholar pages, Rapid Journal Quality Check reads result titles, author and publication snippets, and related page text. It sends bibliographic search text to Crossref and title/author search text to DBLP so it can resolve venue details and display journal rankings beside the results.
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 1.0. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Store data in your browser
storage
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Rapid Journal Quality Check 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.crossref.org
Rapid Journal Quality Check sends data to api.crossref.org. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.
- dblp.org
Rapid Journal Quality Check sends data to dblp.org. 2 other extensions we have analysed send data here.