Zotero Reviews & Product Details

Zotero has made reading scientific papers on my computer much more enjoyable. I really appreciate being able to highlight both text and figures, and then export my annotations. Sharing these notes is also very important to me. In addition to these features, Zotero serves as an excellent reference manager, allowing me to easily add citations to my manuscripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not like the limited number of colors I can add in labels. Labelling is a important step of my organization system and I would love to be able to add more colors to it because I can more easily find and classify what I need from those colors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Citation generation and annotation tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Outdated interface, not always intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like the most about Zotero is that it is simple and if you remember to open the app before using the plugin, works without a hitch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The time it takes to update or to open the citation window seems a bit too long. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The reference management system is perfect, bar none. The sync capability across ALL devices is my absolute favourite thing! I use my laptop for searches, switch to iPad for reading and note-taking, and back again to my laptop to use Overleaf to write my stuff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The switch from Mendeley to Zotero was a bit frustrating at the beginning - till I found out an easy way to do that! Honestly, the only thing I dislike is the "look" but that's superficial and overall it's been great for me to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the Chrome browser add-on. That makes it very easy to save articles I'm researching for and save them to the correct folder. I use it regularly to sort research and analyze research articles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing about the platform aside from the interface is a little outdated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am a scholar of literature, and Zotero helps me in many ways in my writing. such as reference management, automatic citation and bibliography generation, tagging and categorization, advanced searching, and many other features that are yet to be discovered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it should have a writing section too that includes some important writing services such as grammar checkers, paraphrasing, plagiarism checkers, and translation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am a PhD student so I often write papers where I need to manage my citations, but I also use Zotero so I can sync my readings across devices (my desktop computer on campus vs my personal laptop). I love that I can integrate Zotero with Word and Google Docs and that I can take notes on Zotero, organize by tags, make different libraries and also search text. It has been a tremendous help in graduate school! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't really have any downsides of using Zotero. Sometimes the integration with Word can be wonky and it can be a little difficult to edit citations when writing the paper but I think that is expected with basically any citation manager Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zotero is very much helpful for me it organize my research content or manuscript. I can sort my searches or reviewed article into collections and tag them with keywords also create saved searches that automatically fill with relevant materials as I proceed with work. We can work collaboratively with co writer members with same application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its open source also free software so there is nothing as such I dislike but yes I need to be trained myself to use it effectively Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zotero really solves a few major issues that I'd otherwise have. It makes it easy to save research progress or sources, it makes it extremely easy to organize sources, and it enables me to keep track of sources and potential leads across devices thanks to its syncing. Its browser extension works extremely well. I really wouldn't be able to manage a multiyear research project without it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Zotero has an issue with syncing where it sometimes syncs while I'm in the middle of updating an entry title, meaning that it erases whatever I just wrote. This has been going on for months but it's difficult to replicate, meaning that I've had to just deal with it. Additionally, free users are limited in storage, and won't really be able to use it as more than just a bibliography manager. Its premium version is inexpensive, however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love so many things about Zotero! I love that it is free, to begin with. But regardless of being an open access resource it is very easy to use and highly functional. The browser add-on makes it very easy for me to add any kind of source to my library and almost all of the time Zotero will find the pdf file for me as well as all of the documents metadata. I also like its Word add on, which makes it very easy for me to create a reference list while working on a new project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'd love to see two things improve in future versions of Zotero. First, I would love to see in a document's info section what folder or folder are they in. Second, I'd love if Zotero files could be stored in the cloud instead of in a folder in my computer because that makes that some of my files get duplicated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.