Mendeley 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Mendeley

4.2

(70)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Mendeley

Mendeley is a reference management solution that helps researchers and publishers cite references and access published articles. It enables professionals to store research papers in a centralized repository, share files with internal and external stakeholders and configure workflows via a unified platform.

The application allows users to organize and search the digital library, annotate documents as well as write citations and bibliographies. Features of Mendeley include data import/export, file sharing, document storage, analytics, collaboration and more.

Pricing is available on request and support is extended via phone, email and other online measures.

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Mendeley Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing available upon request

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Mendeley Features

Popular features found in Note-Taking
Handwriting Recognition
Meeting Notes
Offline Access
Tagging
Task Management
More features of Mendeley
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
Collaboration Tools
Dashboard
Data Import/Export
Document Classification
Document Storage
File Sharing
Multi-Device Support
Notes Management
Reporting/Analytics

Mendeley Integrations

Microsoft Word

Integration rated 4.8 from 21 reviews

Mendeley User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

44%

36%

16%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.3

Customer support

3.7

Functionality

4.1

Jannus P.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Mendeley as reference manager

Overall Mendeley is a great reference manager. It's difficult to learn, but once you do it'll save you a lot of time manageging your reference for a report

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Mendeley is a great application as reference manager. You can easily add reports to your list if tou have the DOI number of said report, it automatically fills in all the information you need to have for your reference. But if you don't have a DOI, you can also quite simply add all the information yourself. Mendeley also has a great word application which let's you add all your references in world together with a library of all the used references for in your report.

Cons:

Mendeley takes some time to learn. It's not the most beginner friendly programs. A lot of my fellow students, have a lot of problems trying to figure out how everything works. For example; It took me around a month to figure out how I was able to make a references list with order people in mendeley. Besides that, mendeley can sometimes also give trouble whilst loading into word. But thus mainly depends on what kind of computer you use.

Shukurath B.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Review of Mendeley

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The program allows text files and bibliographic references to be organized, enabling their use for a variety of tasks including reading (annotations, bookmarks, etc.) and managing information for research.

Cons:

It is a very useful program, I like how Mendeley operates.

Stefanie D.

Verified reviewer

Research

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Great software that is on the downhill

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Mendeley is intuitive and easy to use. I have used the software for years and have enjoyed the annotation feature and ease with which I can use word plug-ins and the various import tools.

Cons:

Unfortunately, since Elsevier have taken over Mendeley it is clear there is less investment in the software. Firstly, deleting the iOS app has been a big reason for why I am looking at other reference managers. I used this app to mark up papers which was hugely important to me. The login process is now unnecessarily cumbersome and I am constantly being logged out. There is also fewer opportunities for various plugins to other software (eg Obsidian).

Jimmy I.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

501-1000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Make quote with quality

easy, and very useful in academical life

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

These tools help you to make quotes in different standards, in addition you can ass quotes from internet, pdf, or videos, this is very useful

Cons:

the synchronization with the desktop app is very old and request save a file in your pc for do this

François W.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Mendeley for starting a phd

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I have found Mendeley to be an incredibly useful tool for organizing my papers and sources. The ability to easily import papers from various databases and automatically generate citations is a huge time-saver. The ability to collaborate with colleagues on shared projects is also a great feature. Overall, I am very satisfied with Mendeley and would highly recommend it to anyone in the research community.

Cons:

The interface to be somewhat clunky and difficult to navigate at times. Additionally, the automatic citation generation is not always accurate, which can be frustrating when trying to ensure the accuracy of my work.

samuel A.

Verified reviewer

Research

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

Can it be better? YES.

It is the King in the article and referencing sourcing business.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

the fact that it pools all works of others to your screen with ease. No need to work your hustle of logging on to Google Scholar to make any clicks here and there. Super cool.

Cons:

Some libraries demand special codes, especially for the Education libraries just like ENDNOTE.

Hakob A.

Verified reviewer

Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing

5001-10000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Powerful reference manager with lots of functions

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Mendeley is a very powerful reference/citation manager made by Elsevier. It allows you to automatically import article metadata from various sources, refine them, and cite them in your paper. The software allows you to import/export the citation list in .bib, .ris, and .xml and supports many citation formats such as IEEE, Chicago, Nature, etc.

Cons:

Unfortunately, recently Mendeley Desktop was changed to Mendeley Reference Manager. On one hand, the new version is very similar to the previous one, but it still feels a bit strange and non-intuitive.

Shane J.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Nice tool for reading and summarizing PDFs

I used Mendeley throughout school and continue to use it to organize documents. It's very helpful for learning new methods in a way where the content can be shared with others.

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

I love the notes pane that lets you take notes directly beside the source document. A large amount of text can be stored there. It helps with organization, too, because notes are always stored with the document. Great tool for students

Cons:

It would be nice to have automatic syncing, or an "auto-save" - like feature. I also don't think exported reference lists are formatted nicely.

Eutimio A.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2022

The best tool for making bibliographic references in an academic environment.

I have used Mendeley to import citations in BibTex or RefMan format from different repositories or certified web pages, and these citations could also be integrated into research documents with the help of the extension for Microsoft Word, where with just a few clicks it was possible to add the citation and the bibliography, which was updated as new references were added.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Mendeley allows obtaining the information from documents, this by importing in some format sponsored by academic search engines or directly the document in its PDF format, in any case it presents information from that document in a complete way, so that it is possible to make a citation more easily with its extension for word processing software, such as Word.

Cons:

Its compatibility with certain operating systems is a drawback if you want to implement it in these environments, for example Linux in its Linux Mint distribution presented integration problems that could not be solved easily.

Reasons for switching to Mendeley

Working on Windows, Mendeley is easier and more intuitive to use.