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Mendeley

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Mendeley
Score 4.8 out of 10
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Mendeley, an Elsevier company headquartered in London, offers their eponymous reference management software suite, including Mendeley Reference Manager, Web Importer, the Citation Plugin add-on, available in Premium package.N/A
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Mendeley
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Mendeley
Considered Both Products
Mendeley
EP
Erwan Pannier
Post-Graduate Researcher
Chose Mendeley
In ~2014 I and our Lab chose Mendeley over Zotero because it had more functionalities (annotate directly in pdf) and being a commercial product it might have had more support.

Ten years have passed and it turns out that there was never support (latest versions of Mendeley …
Chose Mendeley
Mendeley is best for citations, has all the reference formats you need, with integrations with Microsoft Word and LaTex, flawlessly shares documents with your team, its graphical user interface is not fancy. Still, it gets the job done and all of this for a few dollars a month.
Verified User
Team Lead
Chose Mendeley
I now use Zotero, and prefer Zotero. Mendeley's occasional glitches caused too much stress for this busy grad student. The research team I joined already used Zotero, so making the shift to the new software was based on group needs.
CW
Craig West
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
Chose Mendeley
I have used Zotero and both are comparable. All of them seem to more or less have the same features, and I think there’s a learning curve for all of them. Chose Mendeley due to its features being fairly easy to use.
Verified User
Employee
Chose Mendeley
Microsoft EndNote. Mendeley has better user interface and is able to store, sort and organize a large number of articles effectively. Also can import and extract information from citations from articles online without the entire full text pdf availability. Can be used and …
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User Ratings
Mendeley
Likelihood to Recommend
1.9
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Mendeley
Likelihood to Recommend
Mendeley
Mendeley Desktop used to be a decent software, and comparatively one of the best among Reference Managers. The new online version is beyond expectations
EP
Erwan Pannier
Post-Graduate Researcher
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Pros
Mendeley
  • Easy to use interface
  • The use of font size and style makes information easily discoverable within the article previews
  • Drag-and-drop functions make article indexing particularly simple
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
Mendeley
  • In my opinion, terrible web-based function in the new version
  • Very difficult to annotate and search in PDF's
  • New version removed many previous functions
Franklin Linam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Franklin Linam
PhD Student
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Support Rating
Mendeley
There are a lot of references that do a good job troubleshooting, although I am not sure there is a direct number to an actual person.
CW
Craig West
CEO (Chief Executive Officer)
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Alternatives Considered
Mendeley
Microsoft EndNote. Mendeley has better user interface and is able to store, sort and organize a large number of articles effectively. Also can import and extract information from citations from articles online without the entire full text pdf availability. Can be used and accessed from portable devices such as iPads and mobile phones as well.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Mendeley
  • It is great that for instance, you download the paper you need once, and share it with your entire team.
  • You can present your annotation with the team!
Diego Fernando Martínez Ayala | TrustRadius Reviewer
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