ScholarScope — Journal APC & OA Brief

Know the journal before you submit. Live APC, OA license, subjects & free impact metrics on SciMAGO and publisher sites.

Decide where to publish — with evidence. ScholarScope is a free Chrome extension for researchers, PhD students, postdocs, and labs. On SCImago, DOAJ, publisher sites, PubMed, or Google Scholar, it opens a quick on-screen brief for the journal: APC, open access status, license, subjects, indexing, and free impact metrics — with a direct link to verify SJR on SCImago. No more five tabs open just to check: Can I afford this? Is it really open access? Is this journal legitimate? WHAT YOU GET: ✔ Live APC and fees — from the publisher, DOAJ, or OpenAlex ✔ Open access status and CC license (via DOAJ) ✔ Subject areas — DOAJ and OpenAlex topics ✔ Free impact metrics — OpenAlex citedness, h-index, i10 (not Journal Impact Factor) ✔ Verify links — DOAJ, PubMed/NLM, SCImago, Scopus, Scholar ✔ Auto-detects on SCImago and major publisher sites, or search by ISSN/title ✔ Lightweight overlay — never edits the page HOW IT WORKS: 1.Install and pin ScholarScope 2.Open a journal page or search by ISSN/title 3.Read the brief, then decide PRIVACY Free, no account needed