Mendeley Web Importer

Fast, convenient import of references and PDFs to your Mendeley Reference Manager library.

Mendeley Web Importer: A Convenient Research Tool

Mendeley Web Importer is a Chrome extension designed to streamline your research workflow. When viewing articles or references, simply click the Mendeley icon in your browser's toolbar. It will analyse the page, retrieve important metadata like title, authors, and even full text PDFs where available, and add to your Mendeley library. Additionally, by creating a Mendeley account, you will have the capability to save, read, and cite the articles you import by using the extension and will be provided with 2GB of free storage space.

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Extension stats

By: https://www.mendeley.com

Users: 2,000,000+

Rating: 2.23

(3,008)

4 new ratings

Version: 3.3.2 (Last updated: 2024-12-16)

Creation date: 2020-06-30

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

notifications
scripting
storage
webRequest

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 2.31M

Email: de*****@endtest-mail.io

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 278 ▼ 1

Other rankings

#10361 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 18 #53 in web keyword 83 ▼ 1 #94 in import keyword 26 ▲ 4 #123 in article keyword 8 ▼ 19 #187 in google chrome keyword 96 ▲ 24

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Mendeley Web Importer (v3.2.78)

4.03

(441) 108,443+

Mendeley Web Importer (v3.3.2)

3.20

(575) 1,189,255+

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

When viewing an article or a list of references in the browser, click the Mendeley Web Importer icon in the toolbar. The extension will analyse the page and retrieve metadata like title, authors, etc. and PDF full texts (where available) for you to add to your Mendeley library.

Get a Mendeley account at https://www.mendeley.com/ where you can save, read and cite the articles you import with the extension. You will also receive 2GB of free storage space.

User reviews

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Pros

Cons

Doesn't import PDFs.
Frequent login issues.
Unstable and unreliable performance.
No longer recognizes user authentication.
Cannot import references correctly.

Most mentioned

Not working
PDF import issues
Poor user experience after recent updates
Switch to Zotero as an alternative

User reviews

Finally, after a couple of months of outage of not importing PDF files, the Mendeley Web Importer works. I have to agree with the other reviewersm that since they switched to Mendeley Reference Manager and their cloud system, the quality has been getting worse and worse!