# CiteWell: Academic Reference Saver

> Save academic paper metadata from journal websites to your CiteWell reference library.Save academic paper metadata from journal websites to your CiteWell reference library.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/citewell-reference-saver](https://chrome-stats.com/d/citewell-reference-saver)

## Overview

- **ID:** `citewell-reference-saver`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Research Factory
- **Category:** search-tools,bookmarks
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-13
- **First published:** 2026-06-10
- **Size:** 32 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/citewell-reference-saver/)
- **Website:** [https://citewell.org](https://citewell.org/)

## Description

CiteWell helps researchers save academic paper metadata from supported journal pages directly to their CiteWell reference library.

Open an article page, click the CiteWell extension, review the detected metadata, then save the reference to your library.

Features:
  - Extracts title, authors, journal, year, volume, issue, pages, DOI, PMID, source URL, and source site
  - Supports PubMed and common academic journal websites
  - Saves references to your CiteWell account
  - Lets signed-in users report unsupported or incorrectly parsed pages

A CiteWell account is required to save references. The extension communicates with <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/73b4938ae4b1a685099e28a07eedbe3658eef9480cb45c5243344bf484248ceb/http%3A//citewell.org" rel="nofollow">citewell.org</a> for login, session checks, folder loading, reference saving, and site reports.

## Rankings

- #107,351 — Overall
- #30 — reference

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `storage`
- `alarms`
- `cookies`

### Host permissions

- `https://citewell.org/*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Low risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: citewell.org
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/citewell-reference-saver)