
DATE: JANUARY 6TH, 2026
TAGS: WORKFLOW, WEB
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Thank you to TamperMonkey for giving me the right tooling to execute the script. This script was developed in part using Gemini 3.0.
When I'm doing a casual literature review on google scholar, I'm often using a central term, then snowballing into related terms as I learn more about the topic. When you do this, however, you often see the same publication over, and OVER, AND OVER, AND OVER again. It's visual clutter, and takes some cognitive load to ignore them as you scan lists of publications.
As such, I put together a tampermonkey script that looks for the "saved" icon on an entry. If it sees it, it removes the HTML from the page so you don't see it. This way, as you find articles of interest (or disinterest), you save it to your collection. On the next search, you won't see it again.
Detailed installation and usage details in the Github readme; though note - you'll need a script execution extension in your browser (e.g. TamperMonkey). You can probably get around this, but it's up to you. This script also depends on some hard-coded html tags, so if Google decides to change those on the scholar page, it will stop working.