Is Scite safe?
Scite reads publication identifiers and reference metadata from visited pages and sends them to api.scite.ai.
Scite runs a content script on all websites and looks for publication DOIs in page metadata, data attributes, titles, URLs, and PDF content. It sends detected DOI values and reference details such as title and first author to Scite API endpoints to retrieve citation tallies, paper notices, cited-by-section data, or DOI matches.
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 1.40.0. 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 api.scite.ai
https://api.scite.ai/*
Add items to the right-click menu
contextMenus
Store data in your browser
storage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Scite 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.scite.ai
Scite sends data to api.scite.ai. One other extension we have analysed sends data here.