How to use the Causaly PubMed Plug-in

This guide will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

The Causaly PubMed plug-in surfaces Causaly insights and finds additional, related evidence while you are browsing on PubMed.

Install the Causaly PubMed Plug-in

Causaly’s PubMed Plug-in is a browser extension that works for all Chromium-based browsers including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

You can easily install the extension via your browser’s application store:

Find Causaly insights using the PubMed Plug-in

Example PubMed article: 'Complement activation induces excessive T cell cytotoxicity in severe COVID-19' (link)

The Plug-in appears when you visit article pages in PubMed. In this example, the browser extension informs you that more than 99 insights have been identified from this publication in Causaly. Click on this Causaly insights tab to expand a panel on the right side and explore the evidence extracted from this publication (Figure 1). Review additional supporting evidence for each insight by selecting ‘See more evidence’ in the panel.

 

Figure 1: The Causaly PubMed plug-in reveals Causaly insights from the publication.

See how the Causaly PubMed plug-in works in action:

PubMed Plugin GIF

 

Security information

  • Causaly's Web Extension requires users to authenticate to https://med.causaly.com using their Causaly account or Identity Provider (e.g. Azure Active Directory). Unauthenticated users will not be able to access the insights from the Web extension.

Privacy information

  • Causaly's Web Extension only works when visiting PubMed. It deactivates when visiting other websites.
  • Causaly's Web Extension does not track user data, with the exception of PubMed URLs that are necessary to retrieve relevant article information from the Causaly Knowledge Graph.