ReadCube Papers Reviews

Readcube Papers is accessible and synchronized on all my devices, my iPad, mobile, and PC. It allows separate file storages within the application which allows me to organize for different research projects. The app works fast and efficiently. I can also use its citing tool on MS Word, making referencing easy in parallel with my reading processes. I think it's a must-have, especially for early researchers like me.

Using the citing app (SmartCite) within MS Word can occasionally slow down the PC. Also, it would be great if there's an option to share my notes on a paper with others (non-subscribers) through a "view-only" sharing option.

It allows lots of annotations, provides a very good organization of papers, and is accessible everywhere, which greatly benefits me in my research.

In general, this management tool is effortless to use. I can import articles easily. By creating relevant lists, articles can be archived systematically. And I can also make annotations anywhere. Furthermore, we can export all the annotations, which can quickly help us refresh our memory about the important ideas of the article when we read the article several weeks later.

I am positive about almost all the functions of Papers. The further improvement may be that we can write something directly next to the paragraph or sentences, which can make these notes more visible to our eyes.

It helps me manage abundant studies simultaneously. We can log in using our account on any device when we want to read the articles, and the annotations we made before are also updated.

1. I love the search function (local or online), nearly every paper you can find.

2. I love the export function. I used to save and manage papers on Endnote, but finally, I found it uneasy to export.

3. I love the reading function, which is like a PDF reader!

Of course, there is something worth improving.

1. Sometimes, the PDF reader in Papers doesn't work well.

2. It should be better if I can delete the repeating papers one time.

3. Is there any way to automatically detect which of my posts are duplicated? I hope I can see it in the future.

4. When I delete duplicate papers, it always keeps asking me if I've deleted them, even though I already have.

there is no big problem for me, actually. in the future, I hope the PDF reader in Papers can be better. I have sent several emails to ask about this. Also, I hope, in the future, I can change the theme.

-All my papers (including supplements!) at the tips of my fingers

-Searchable by author, keyword, etc

-Very affordable for students (with student discount applied)

-Easy drag-and-drop upload system

-PDFs open within Papers and can be annotated

-Has a slight learning curve, and more niche options/settings are not easily discoverable

-Some issues with not detecting login status when adding publications to library via the internet (ie on PubMed page of a publication)

Papers helps me solve the problem of keeping PDF publications organized without losing valuable meta-data (ie journal, year of publication, etc) or sacrificing searchability.

I find it useful that I can get PDFs via my instutional credentials. I like that I can export my citations through Microsoft Word or Google Docs.

I do not like how the sentence-case, journal abbreviations, and author initials are not consistent. I would like more variations of popular citation styles.

It simplifies the act of getting a paper into a bibliography (via a friendly interface), finding the paper, and referencing it in documents.

If you highlight anything in the pdf file, it can generate an annotation list. This helps so much when I try to browse through all my papers. Also I love they could download the si figures and file for you directly. Importing and labeling papers are also easier than endnotes. Even if we have free endnotes through the university I'll still choose this.

There is only one tiny issue. I'm not sure if this is a bug or if I used it wrong. Normally how I use it is to download pdf and import it into the library, after that I delate the file to the download folder. I think for other similar software, they would generate a library folder and copy your pdf to that folder, so you're safe to clean up the download folder. But here, if I have done so, it has to redownload pdf from the Internet.

Arrangeing papers is so critical for my research. I used endnote before, but it is more like giving me more workload rather than actually helping. Papers do reduce the stress of keeping papers arranged.

Literature searches, reprint collection and organization, and reference management all in one place. I've used it for years (before the cloud version) and I rely on it heavily. I rarely read a paper other than through Papers.

Very little! Occasionally hard to download pdfs. And a more usable way to sort papers into folders would be nice.

I'm a professor of theoretical chemistry. I use it to manage the literature and share with my graduate students. I use it daily, whenever reading, organizing, or citing the literature.

The best feature of the ReadCube is it runs smoothly across different devices, I can access literature anywhere easily from my iPad or mobile, and quickly share and discuss with colleagues. Compared to other literature managing applications, the user interface is beautiful and friendly.

I can not really point out something specific that I dislike, but it will be great in the future to have a visual graph feature to show the connection between literature, for the user to find out what field is the hub of the field or what topics are lack of research.

I usually need to read literature when I'm outside of the office, it is necessary to have a literature management system that helps me organize everything across different devices. ReadCube made it, I feel flawless when I switch from my computer to my mobile.

I like that readcube is very simple and I can easily manage all my references. I love the chrome extension and that I can search literature in the app as well.

Sometimes is a bit slower, but mostly is working very well.

All the references is in one place and I can manage it easily. I am using the MS word extension as well and it hellps me a lot while I am writing my papers.

I love being able to quickly access referenced work and importing it directly into the library. I use Papers for preparing for lectures in the constant battle to keep the classroom current with the research available.

Improved integration with Microsoft Word and Apple Papers would be excellent, but the difficulty with that integration is understandable. Since I use Papers to generate my citations for my lectures, it would be nice to see a "reference slide" self-populate, but that might be asking too much.

Papers plays a vital role for me during lecture prep - I love how I can quickly generate a citation and paste that into the slide. I can easily find the research I am looking for as well as point others to specific research.