Paperpile Extension

Collect, organize, annotate and cite your research papers in Chrome.

Users200K

Rating4.6

Reviews194

Manifest versionV3

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Version1.5.1018

ManifestV3

Size10.1MiB

Languages1English

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Note: If you see a warning about Paperpile's extension "being not supported soon", you can safely ignore it. Exciting new features are coming to Paperpile and its extension, which will be rolled out automatically in the coming weeks.

This extension works with Paperpile, a clean and simple reference and citation manager. Sign up for Paperpile at https://paperpile.com

Students, researchers, scientists, doctors, postdocs, PIs, and professors 💛 Paperpile:

⭐️ Collect your papers while browsing

✓ Import citations and PDFs from hundreds of publisher sites including Nature, Science, Springer, ScienceDirect, Wiley and many more

✓ Deep integration with PubMed, Google Scholar, ArXiv, Scopus, Web of Science, ProQuest, EBSCO, and hundreds of University library catalogues

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AI product read

Academic reference and citation management browser extension for collecting, organizing, annotating, and citing research papers

Helps researchers and students efficiently manage academic literature by capturing citations and PDFs while browsing publisher sites, organizing them in a cloud-synced library, and inserting citations into documents

User browses academic publisher sites → clicks extension to import citation/PDF → paper is saved to Paperpile library (synced via app.paperpile.com) → user can annotate PDFs in Chrome → user inserts citations and generates bibliographies in Google Docs → library syncs to Google Drive

Target users: Students / Researchers / Scientists / Doctors / Postdocs / Principal Investigators (PIs) / Professors / Academics

Source code is heavily minified/bundled making granular feature analysis difficult
Cannot determine exact Paperpile subscription tiers or whether free tier enables core extension functionality
Google confirmed as login provider from store detail context but other providers not explicitly found in minified code

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No paid features detected

The extension itself does not implement any paid feature gating, billing UI, subscription checks, or payment platform integrations. No 'subscription', 'pricing', 'upgrade', 'trial' keywords found in source code. The 'pro' and 'license' keyword matches are false positives from Bootstrap CSS and open-source license references. However, Paperpile as a destination service operates on a paid subscription model, so the core workflow depends on the user having an active Paperpile account/plan.

Confidence: 80
Payment platform: --
Source: AI / Medium
Login required: Needs review
Reason: The store description explicitly states 'Sign up for Paperpile at https://paperpile.com'. The extension has 'signedout' icon variants (e.g., images/icon-light-signedout-19.png) and a dedicated 'noaccess' page (dist-new/html/popup-noaccess.html loading cs-noaccess.js), confirming a logged-out state exists. JWT token references appear throughout the codebase for authentication with Paperpile's backend services (api.paperpile.com, app.paperpile.com, library.paperpile.com). The 'cookies' permission and 'auth' keyword hits further support authentication requirements. The extension is a companion to the Paperpile web app (content_scripts match app.paperpile.com).

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敏感权限：declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
扩展能力较强：storage、tabs、scripting、cookies
同时具备浏览数据与站点访问能力

Publisher

Paperpile

Stefan Washietl

Email: [email protected]
Phone: +16176829250
Address: 245 First St Cambridge, MA 02142-1200 US

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