Best research plugins for WordPress
The most popular research plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. DocumentCloud leads with 1K+ active installs, ahead of Scholar Publications Fetcher (200+) and CloudSearch (60+). All 19 plugins tagged “research” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 research plugins
- 1.
DocumentCloudThe most installed research plugin, with 1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Scholar Publications Fetcher200+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
CloudSearch60+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 4.
Academic Publications Showcase40+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
NarraFirma40+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
- 6.
PubMed Posts40+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.8.0.
- 7.
Zsoogi Clipper10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 weeks ago.
- 8.
Citrus10+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 6 days ago.
- 9.
SEO Copywriting10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 10.
Mendeley Profile Plugin10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.9.40.
All 19 plugins tagged “research”
DocumentCloud
Up in the last 7 days:6#5,226by muckrock1 year ago
Embed DocumentCloud resources in WordPress content.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 125/day
Scholar Publications Fetcher
Up in the last 7 days:56#12,252by valsze2 months ago
Fetch, cache, customize, and display Google Scholar profiles and publications with an easy WordPress admin settings panel.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
CloudSearch
Down in the last 7 days:6#19,258by Andrea Landonio3 years ago
CloudSearch is a flexible plugin that allows you to leverage the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch in your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Academic Publications Showcase
Up in the last 7 days:125#21,443by havacekm8 months ago
Display publications from Zenodo communities or ORCID author profiles with modern card layouts and customizable designs.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NarraFirma
Down in the last 7 days:324#22,148by cfkurtz4 months ago
Participatory Narrative Inquiry in a box. Gather stories and make sense of challenges and opportunities in your community or organization.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
PubMed Posts
Down in the last 7 days:2#22,419by sydcode13 years ago
This plugin adds a dashboard widget that creates posts from PubMed articles, plus a search widget that finds posts with specific article data.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Zsoogi Clipper
Up in the last 7 days:130#32,836by The API Guys28 days ago
Create admin-only Zsoogi clips with a modern jQuery-free bookmarklet for web research and documentation.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Citrus
#34,818by Evan Morgan6 days ago
Display research publications from Pure API or manually provided BibTeX data beautifully.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
SEO Copywriting
Down in the last 7 days:536#40,950by seomantis3 years ago
Keyword research made easy!
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Mendeley Profile Plugin
#44,689by mblazquez12 years ago
Displays the profile information, publications and curriculum vitae from Mendeley to your wordpress website
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
RSS Content Curator
#56,545by kapilplugin5 months ago
Ethical content curation tool - Generate research drafts from RSS feeds with automatic source attribution. Supports all 7 categories.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Electrifying Engineering Portfolio
Down in the last 7 days:6,032#66,691by hodayx8 years ago
Creates a portfolio for engineers
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Owl SEO
#67,430by owlseo14 days ago
Discover keyword ideas and search volume from seed keywords or competitor websites, using the Owl SEO cloud service inside WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
AcademicCrew
Down in the last 7 days:17,748#67,908by alefiori8224 days ago
Member profiles, courses, projects, and publication management for university research groups — on any WordPress theme.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Scholar Metrics Panels
Down in the last 7 days:1,082#68,624by Reviewer 23 months ago
Display customizable OpenAlex research panels for a specific institution or country using two explicit shortcodes.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Aigrow Chatbot Integration
Down in the last 7 days:9,437#73,515by imronpuji1 year ago
AI-powered research paper assistant chatbot.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day