Sciwheel Reviews & Product Details

I have been using Sciwheel (previously F1000Work) for 5-7 years, and it's the best reference manager I have tried. I started using it because it was the only ref manager for google docs. I don't know if it's still the case. It's easy to use, and the libraries are easy to manage. It's possible to share projects with students and collaborators. The tool has an option to highlight from an article, and it shows the progress in a log form, which it's handy to follow students' progress and to write article's introduction and discussion. Of course, it has all the elements of a good reference manager and provides citation formats from a comprehensive list of journals. Also, the customer service is highly efficient and very open to implementing recommendations from users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's hard to find anything I dislike from Sciwheel because this piece of software has been handy, especially during the last two years, but I would improve the "notes" section Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sciwheel is intuitive and maximizes efficiency. My favorite tool is the find citation marks. When writing, you use {} with text inside, and you can go back at the end of a writing session to attach all the papers. This feature makes my life so easy. It has a database of every journal citation style. Your projects folders will also have reference suggestions to help fill in holes and keep your literature up to date. Changing citations from (author year) to Author (year) is so easy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wish I could set my own default citation styles so I never have to search for the journals I use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Multiple platforms supported

-Easy to add resources

-Website is also user-friendly

-Many different citation styles

-Can add a reference to multiple projects/folders

-Very responsive support team; they've quickly made corrections when needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-As of March 2022, not a good product for systematic reviews with its automatic deduping.

-It would be nice for the product to integrate with PowerPoint

-The Office 365 version of Sciwheel is not as user-friendly as the desktop version, which is no longer supported. Specifically, with the desktop version, I would select the preferred citation style before I started writing a document and the style would stay the same. Office 365 doesn't permit that, which is very irritating and distracting while I'm trying to write. I want to set the citation style when I START writing, not when I have FINISHED writing. The desktop version afforded both options but the Office 365 version only supports the latter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software makes it easy to create an overview of all your papers. It is fast and reactive. In addition, the plug-ins work very well too. The cite manager in Word is much faster than the Mendeley plug-in was. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The price is quite steep.

- The recommendation engine often misses the point and overloads you with the wrong kind of suggestions.

- Sometimes, the references don't import well from the website, but importing through pdf works well enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Suggested Articles

- Private & Public projects

- Highlighting

- Chrome extension

- Integration with Google Doc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Notes feature is pretty limited

- No keybindings in Google Chrome extensions for highlighting, etc.

- No automated tag suggestions

- Improved functionality for non-journal based resources, e.g., web pages

- Would be great to see some summary stats for one's library, e.g., how many articles saved this week, most active tags, #highlights, #notes

- Better integration with the feeds and the suggestions - I almost don't want to see the feeds so long as the suggestions are working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to use; I use the Google Chrome plug-in almost daily. It helps me save papers quickly and organize my saved articles into folders that I can access later. The Google Doc extension is also wonderful and I have used it for many papers and reports. The Share function is perfect for teams working on projects and reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a small comment but when I use SciWheel to cite papers, it will link out to SciWheel and not to the paper itself. I found this a little odd and for any collaborators that do not have SciWheel, this means they would get an error message if they tried to open the citation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a versatile, fully online tool. This does not cause problems with the synchronization of documents and notes as in other applications (Zotero, Mendeley). It was a headache for me to lose on several occasions my notes and references when I formatted or changed my computer. That never happens with Sciwheel. Besides, Sciwheel captures much better the metadata of articles and web pages. There is a minimum of manual adjustments that one has to make to the references. It has also been an excellent source of articles associated with my references. It also was an efficient word plugin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not have anything in mind. Of course, I would prefer to save some money annually, but getting the paid sources is definitively worth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For sure, the feature I like the most is the note-taking feature. You can read a paper (or a website) within your browser and write down notes or highlight text portions, both saved and kept in Sciwheel. When drafting your article, this gives you the chance to recover that infos from the reference quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A LibreOffice plugin would be a great plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reference manager works really well, and the customer service has always been very helpful when I had questions or issues. It is also useful to access papers from different devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The downsize is that it is not cheap and I cannot really recommend it to my students (university does not reimburse for this program). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that the time it takes to cite resources has decreased tremendously with using the program. I also appreciate that there are extensions for Google Docs and Microsoft Word to incorporate citations seamlessly into papers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At times, the program does not transfer information (author, date) from web pages. It provides automatic citations for articles from academic journals, and manual citations are usually not needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.