Reference Management Software: Comparative Analysis of RefWorks and Zotero

This paper presents a comparison of reference
management software between RefWorks and Zotero. The results
were drawn by comparing two software and the novelty of this paper
is the comparative analysis of software and it has shown that
ReftWorks can import more information from the Google Scholar for
the researchers. This finding could help to know researchers to use
the reference management software.

• Sujit K. Basak

• Analysis
• comparative analysis
• reference management software
• researchers.

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