Chrome Extension

The YCR-index condenses three elements (Year, Citations, and Relative) into a single metric for scholarly articles in the Biomedical domain.

Install the YCR-index Extension
This link will take you to the Chrome Web Store.

Screenshot 1: YCR extension horizontal badge embedded in Google Scholar results:



Choosing what to read first becomes easier with YCR-index. If you are unsure whether a citation count is high or low, the browser add-on presents a concise badge that displays Year, total Citations, and the Relative score. By comparing these values, you can quickly see if a paper outperforms, matches, or lags behind others in its field. The metric is presently available for Biomedical research.

Screenshot 2: YCR extension vertical badge embedded in an article page:



The extension recognises DOIs on any web page and injects a YCR badge into Google Scholar results, PubMed listings, and pages for papers already in our database. To do so, it lightly adjusts page elements before inserting the badge. All scores rely on open data from OpenAlex and on our open data implementation of the RCR algorithm (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002541). Run by a non-profit scientometrics team, the project aims to deliver clear, unbiased indicators of scholarly influence to researchers worldwide.

Install the YCR-index Extension
This link will take you to the Chrome Web Store.