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Ferret

Extension Delisted

This extension is no longer available in the official store. Delisted on 2025-09-15.

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  • Removed Long Ago
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Description from extension meta

With great power comes great research.

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Ferret
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Ferret empowers your research by summarizing/enriching articles and providing full-text search on your reading history.

All info at a glance
A publication might be on topic. But is it on point? Ferret integrates with many popular scientific databases and services, so you can easily judge the scientific impact of any publication. If an article scores low, perhaps you shouldn't read it all the way through. If it has no mentions or peer reviews at all, it may not even be worth your time.

All the services you love
Databases offered are Pubmed, EuropePMC, Pubpeer, Altmetric, JournalScore, CiteFactor… A bevy of reliable services for you to decide what to read. All bundled in one place as well, keeping those browser tabs in check. We are always updating our pool of integrations.

Time Machine
Remember reading something interesting but have no clue where? Use the Time Machine to track an article in your reading history, and retrace the steps you took to find it. Patterns soon emerge as you see your research in its full context on a clear visual timeline. No bookmarking required, Ferret's always on.

Timeline & Search
Ferret remembers every article you visit. Just do your research. Ferret works quietly in the background, hanging on to every word. Then dive into your reading history with full-text search for keywords or metadata. Ferret lines up all matching articles and links them together.

Latest reviews

LIANG
Thanks, a great app.
Ding Ewan
Fail to perform on the Local PDF, I mean, there is no sidebar when I open the PDF in Chrome. Besides, I'd appreciate a lot if this extension could support the PDF in Diigo, which is a great website for idea collection and organization.
J. Lund
Great idea and useful for reading literature, however breaks PDF functionality for many non-journal PDFs (e.g. instruction manuals, letters). This extension could be really great if there were an easy way to toggle whether it's enabled or not.
Raphael Haslecker
Just awesome. Of course, not yet that useful if you're not in the biosciences.
Fabienne GOUX-BAUDIMENT
Le problème est la langue : Ferret travaille seulement en anglais ! Et je n'ai pas encore trouvé comment modifié ses catégories (molecules, etc.) Du coup il n'enrichit pas mes pages consultées...
Lili mulvany
Good tool. thanks