FORRT ORE — Open Research Extension

Shows Replications, Retractions, Registered Reports, PubPeer comments and open-access copies for the papers you search for and read.

FORRT ORE shows what is known about the papers you read: whether a study has been replicated or reproduced, whether it has been retracted or flagged, whether researchers are discussing it on PubPeer, and whether a free copy exists. ORE is free and open source, built by FORRT (the Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training). It works in Chrome and Edge. WHAT ORE CHECKS - Replications and reproductions: Counts, outcomes and links from the FLoRA Replication Atlas, a community-run database of replication studies in the social and behavioural sciences. - Retractions and expressions of concern: A warning on the paper with a link to the journal's notice, using Retraction Watch data. - PubPeer discussion: The comment count and a link to the thread. You can mute commenters in Settings. - Open access: Free, legal copies found through Unpaywall and PubMed Central. - Registered Reports: A label on papers listed in the Database of Published Registered Reports, with the stage when known. WHERE IT WORKS - Search results: A panel beside each result on scholarly search sites, including Google Scholar and PubMed. See all supported sites: https://forrt.org/chromium-extension/#where - Articles and other web pages: A small pill beside the article's DOI, each paper in its reference list, and any other DOI on the page. - Spreadsheets: Open a list of DOIs in Google Sheets or Excel Online and ORE checks all of them, including rows you have not scrolled to. Retracted papers are listed first. - Documents: In Google Docs and Word Online, each reference with a DOI gets a marker as you write. If a search result or reference shows no DOI, ORE searches for its title in Crossref and OpenAlex. A DOI found this way has a dotted underline, so you know to check the match. THE META REPORT A tab at the edge of an article page opens a report on that paper: its replications and their outcomes, any retraction or concern, its PubPeer discussion, and which of its references have something to report. If the article is itself a replication, the report shows the original study. You can save the report as a PDF or share it as a link that opens without ORE. CITATIONS Copy a paper's DOI or a formatted reference in one click. ORE offers 11 formats, from APA to BibTeX, and keeps the formatting when you paste into Word or Google Docs. YOUR CONTROLS ORE is on by default for journals, publishers, preprint servers and documents, and off for shopping, video, messaging and web search. You can change this by category or by site. The toolbar button shows how many papers on the page have something to report, and lets you hide ORE on a page, snooze it on a site or turn it off for that site. It also lets you report a problem or take a guided tour. In Settings you can choose your citation format, keep a list of sites where ORE never runs, cap how much cached data it keeps, and refresh the retraction and Registered Reports data each time the browser starts. If something looks wrong, turn on debug mode and use Report an issue. ORE fills a diagnostic log into a GitHub issue for you to review, and nothing is submitted until you press GitHub's own button. Attaching a screenshot of the page is opt-in. PRIVACY ORE has no accounts, analytics or tracking. Retractions are checked on your computer against a list refreshed weekly. Paper identifiers and titles are sent to the services that look them up, and on article pages the page address goes to PubPeer with the comment lookup. A contact email is optional. ORE needs one for title matching and Unpaywall lookups, and sends it to Crossref, OpenAlex, Unpaywall and NCBI. DOI, replication, retraction and PubPeer checks work without it. Privacy policy: https://forrt.org/chromium-extension/privacy.html READING THE RESULTS Treat what ORE shows as a starting point for your own judgement. Outcome labels depend on how replication authors describe their results, and a failed replication does not by itself show that the original finding was false. The replication database is community-curated, so a missing replication may simply not have been added yet. You can contribute an entry at https://forrt.org/replication-database/ DATA SOURCES Replications: FORRT Replication Database, through the FLoRA Replication Atlas. Retractions: Retraction Watch / The Center for Scientific Integrity, released with Crossref under CC BY 4.0. Title matching and citations: Crossref and OpenAlex. Open access: Unpaywall and PubMed Central. Comments: PubPeer. Registered Reports: Database of Published Registered Reports.