No malware found
In code review (v0.1)
Our reviewer read version 0.1 — the most recent version we have reviewed — and found no malicious behaviour. The version shown here has not been individually reviewed yet.
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What our analysis found
HScholar showed no malicious code in Extension Auditor's review. It comes from a publisher with 6 extensions and was last updated in February 2025.
Analyst notes
The extension is a straightforward Google Scholar h-index calculator. The single content script () reads citation counts from Scholar result pages already loaded in the browser, displays a header UI element, and fetches additional Scholar result pages (same domain) to accumulate more citation data — all within the declared host_permissions ([domain withheld] and [domain withheld]). No data is sent anywhere; all fetch() calls are to Google Scholar itself. The bundled manifest matches the published manifest summary exactly (MV3, content_scripts on Scholar domains, downloads permission absent in bundled but present in published — this appears to be a minor version discrepancy but the bundled version simply lacks downloads, making it less capable, not more dangerous). The ML score of 0.61 is driven by trivial signals: 4 appendChild calls (UI creation), 2 encoded strings (CSS keyframes), and small file count — all fully explained by the extension's legitimate DOM manipulation for UI insertion.
HScholar Chrome extension security report
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Extension Info & Metadata
Publisher Contextual Analysis
- Author
- nabor.mendonca
- Privacy
- Privacy Policy
- MX records exist
- Yes
- Domain exists
- Yes
- Is disposable
- No
- Is role-based
- No
- Mailbox exists
- Yes
- Website
- Visit
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Install growth
Sensitive Domain Access
This extension has access to the following sensitive domains:
- https://scholar.google.com/scholar?*
- https://scholar.google.com.br/scholar?*
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About this extension
Calculates the h-index of publications returned by Google Scholar advanced queries.
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Simple extension to calculate the h-index of publications returned by Google Scholar advanced queries. Note: this extension only works on Scholar pages with either "scholar.google.com" or "scholar.google.com.br" domain names.
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