ScholarHere collects nothing. Here is exactly what it touches.

ScholarHere is a free, open-source browser extension built by ResearchSec and released under the MIT License. The complete source code is public at github.com/naemazam/ScholarHere, so every statement in this policy can be checked against the code. This policy covers extension version 4.9.0 and this website.

When you open a Google Scholar citations profile or an ORCID record, ScholarHere reads information that is already public: the scholar's name, affiliation and ORCID iD, and each paper's title, author list, venue, year and citation count.

This information is processed entirely inside your browser to calculate the metrics shown in the terminal. It is held in memory only while the page is open and is never sent to ResearchSec or any server we control. The extension does not run on any other website.

Nothing. ScholarHere has no accounts, no sign-in, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no advertising, no tracking pixels and no cookies of its own. We have no backend server, so there is nowhere for your data to go.

The extension does not load or run code from remote servers. Everything it executes ships in the package you install.

Two small items are saved in your browser's local storage so the extension remembers your choices:

• The Google Scholar profile you saved with Set My Profile or in the popup, with its name, affiliation and last-synced citations, h-index and i10-index, so the popup can show your growth since the last sync.
• The computed metrics of one scholar you chose to pin with Pin Compare, so you can benchmark them against another profile.

These items never leave your device. You can change the tracked profile with Edit URL in the popup, or remove everything by uninstalling the extension.

OpenAlex. When you press Verify OpenAlex or Inspect, and automatically when you open an ORCID record, the extension sends paper titles or the ORCID iD of the profile you are viewing to the public OpenAlex API (api.openalex.org), run by the non-profit OurResearch, to look up DOIs, open-access PDF links, abstracts, venue details and full author lists. No identifier about you is included.

ORCID. On ORCID records, the extension reads the public works list for that ORCID iD from the ORCID public API (pub.orcid.org).

Google Scholar. The extension runs on Google Scholar pages. When you open or sync the popup, it re-reads the public Scholar profile you saved to refresh your citation counts. That request goes directly from your browser to Google, like opening the page yourself. Your use of Google Scholar is governed by Google's privacy policy. ScholarHere is not affiliated with Google.

As with any web request, your browser automatically shares standard technical details such as your IP address with these services, and their own privacy policies apply to those requests.

• Access to Google Scholar citation pages (scholar.google.com and its regional domains): to read the profile, show the terminal and refresh your tracked profile in the popup.
• Access to orcid.org and pub.orcid.org: to show the terminal on ORCID records and read their public works.
• storage: to remember your tracked profile and pinned scholar locally.
• Access to api.openalex.org: to fetch paper and venue metadata.

CSV files, BibTeX entries, inquiry emails and audit summaries are generated locally in your browser. A CSV is saved only where your browser places downloads, and text is placed on your clipboard only when you press a copy button.

This website is hosted on Vercel and uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views in aggregate. It does not use cookies, does not build profiles of visitors and does not identify you personally. The interactive demo on the home page runs entirely in your browser with sample data.

The use of information received by ScholarHere is limited to providing its single purpose: analysing Google Scholar and ORCID profiles for the user. We do not sell, transfer or use this information for advertising, credit-worthiness or any purpose unrelated to that function.

ScholarHere is a research tool and is not directed at children. It does not knowingly process any data about children.

If a future version changes how data is handled, we will update this page and the effective date above before that version is released. The full history of this policy is visible in the public repository.

Questions or concerns about privacy can be raised by opening an issue at github.com/naemazam/ScholarHere/issues.