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What is EndNote?

Clarivate Analytics headquartered in Philadelphia offers EndNote, a reference library and management software. Endnote helps users save time, stay organized, collaborate with colleagues, and get published.

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EndNote helps with productivity

Incentivized
James Harrington
Research Chemist in Research & Development at RTI International (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I write scholarly publications and reports for federal clients, and EndNote provides streamlined and efficient citation management services for me and my collaborators. The product makes organization of the large numbers of scientific citations easier and saves us time and labor in fixing citations every time we edit a manuscript draft. A secondary use of the software is tracking internal team publications for corporate performance metrics.

Pros

  • Citation management
  • Indexing tracking
  • Graphic organization
  • Abstract retrieval

Cons

  • Ease of generating tables of content
  • Interaction with other reference management software (e.g. Mendeley)
  • Ease of integrating new reference style files

Return on Investment

  • Saves a minimum of 10 hours of author rework and review of citations per publication
  • Decreased editor labor budget by ~20%
  • Ease of introduction of new primary authors for scholarly publications

Alternatives Considered

Mendeley

EndNote for accurate references is a must!

Incentivized
Lochan KalicharanView profile
Desktop Support Specialist in Information Technology at Mount Sinai Health System (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Referencing.
  • Formatting.

Cons

  • There have been issues with databases after upgrades but this seems fixed in newer versions.
  • Corrupt libraries after Word upgrade. Again, seems fixed in new versions

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact on time.
  • Saves us money due to licensing.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 2016, Microsoft Office 365

EndNote Review

Incentivized
Takao SakaguchiView profile
Staff physicist in Research & Development at Brookhaven National Laboratory (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Literature book-keeping by drag and drop
  • Rich output format selection for bibliography
  • Automatically extracting bibliographic info from the PDF

Cons

  • It would be nice if it could automatically update bibliographic info for the paper downloaded.
  • Good reference manual to fully exploit the features
  • Updating number of citations would help a lot

Return on Investment

  • None

Smart reference manager

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Research & Development (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Citation insertion
  • Easy merge and updation of documents with cited references
  • Bibliography compilation and maintenance
  • Better integrated tools with other applications

Cons

  • While finding full text, downloading all PDFs in single folder rather than in each folder will be a betterment.
  • Auto template updation in the existing library
  • Simplified library editing panel

Most Important Features

  • Not much mannual intervention in facilitating error free compilation of data
  • Advantage of better time management
  • Easy accessibility for the multiple user on multiple projects

Return on Investment

  • Highly priced
  • Support could be better
  • Not everyone can afford at this price

Alternatives Considered

Mendeley, ReadCube Papers, Zotero and refbase

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), OriginPro, Adobe Illustrator CC, Dropbox, PayPal Payments, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Zoom

Great citation manager

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Pros

  • organizes citations
  • combines citations across documents
  • serves as a reading platform

Cons

  • The reading pdf feature could be improved
  • removing duplicates can be tricky
  • journal abbreviations are difficult to manage and usually require manual input

Most Important Features

  • merging document libraries
  • copy and paste citations feature
  • organization of references

Return on Investment

  • Many publications have been published with the help of EndNote
  • Great training for using citation managers

Alternatives Considered

Mendeley

Other Software Used

Mendeley