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1. 866 votes

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   to publish your desktop under GPL license.

   It will be very good if you could publish your desktop under GPL or compatible license. That will boost its development, features and make it localized and modified according to the needs of much wider population. Indeed, this will make much more audiences for you.
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   by veki | 33 comments

   Status: under review
2. 833 votes

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   Check for duplicates

   Please add a possibility for checking for duplicates and not adding those/modifying the existing entries when importing! Especially please check for duplicates when automatic PDF extraction!

   by aka | 33 comments

   Status: started
3. 640 votes

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   Improve quality of automatic metadata extraction

   Improve the quality of the automatic metadata extraction; add automatic retrieval of metadata from arXiv, PubMed etc.

   by Mendeley | 64 comments

   Status: started
4. 619 votes

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   Manually edit citation styles in Mendeley Desktop

   There should be a way to manually edit the citation styles in Mendeley Desktop, preferably in a WYSIWYG editor.

   by Mendeley | 36 comments

   Status: started
5. 519 votes

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   Mendeley on iPhone

   Create a Mendeley iPhone app which allows you to access and read your papers on the go

   by victor.henning | 33 comments

   Status: started
6. 498 votes

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   Attach PDFs to metadata in Mendeley Desktop by drag & drop

   Dragging a pdf to a reference already in Mendeley should attach the pdf to that reference, instead of creating a duplicate of the reference. The process of opening the reference and browsing for it, is way too long. As checking if the reference already exist could be complicated (you judge that),... more

   Dragging a pdf to a reference already in Mendeley should attach the pdf to that reference, instead of creating a duplicate of the reference. The process of opening the reference and browsing for it, is way too long. As checking if the reference already exist could be complicated (you judge that), just link it to whatever reference we point on when dragging.

   by Mendeley | 20 comments

   Status: planned
7. 463 votes

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   Allow sub-groups in document groups

   Allow the creation of sub-groups in document groups, and allow groups to be dragged into other groups to create sub-groups

   by Mendeley | 23 comments

   Status: planned
8. 426 votes

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   In-program PubMed search & Metadata Retrieval

   An in-program browser where users can go to PubMed (or a specific Journal's website) and search an article. On downloading it, Mendeley will automatically extract the Metadata and possibly archive the file.

   by derekkchu | 17 comments

   Status: started
9. 417 votes

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   Make Mendeley Desktop portable (for USB Drive)

   It would be great if Mendeley Desktop could be a portable application that can be run from a USB hard drive or stick.

   by Mendeley | 21 comments

   Status: started
10. 360 votes

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    Paper watching : alert when some new paper cites it

    You could tag an article of your library for being watched. The system would continuously check if some new paper is citing the paper of interest (just keep an eye on the number of citations in google scholar for example). It could display these new articles as an RSS feed or as a list of suggest... more

    You could tag an article of your library for being watched. The system would continuously check if some new paper is citing the paper of interest (just keep an eye on the number of citations in google scholar for example). It could display these new articles as an RSS feed or as a list of suggestion where you would just have to check boxes to include or not the new articles in your library.

    by Marc Bernot | 4 comments
11. 307 votes

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    Match references to library entries

    Some papers automatically list references in the side window, which is great. In some cases, I have already added a paper to my library which appears in a reference list. However, since I did not add it *from* the reference list, it does not link back. I would like to be able to manually (or even... more

    Some papers automatically list references in the side window, which is great. In some cases, I have already added a paper to my library which appears in a reference list. However, since I did not add it *from* the reference list, it does not link back. I would like to be able to manually (or even better, automatically) link references back to papers already within my library. Theoretically this could automatically be done by matching the author list (allowing for initials vs. full names), title, year, publication, etc. If it sees a match but isn't sure, Mendeley could pop up a window asking me if it is or is not a match (providing the citation info for each one in the window).

    by Mendeley | 15 comments
12. 231 votes

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    save pdf metadata directly to file like in mp3s

    by ducati67 | 14 comments

    Status: planned
13. 220 votes

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    Auto-extract and display the paper's abstract

    Automatically extract the Abstract section of a paper and display it in the right-hand frame. Either add a new field to the "Tags & Notes" sub-tab, or create a new "Abstract" sub-tab.

    by victor.henning | 4 comments

    Status: started
14. 197 votes

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    Additional citation styles

    Add support for additional citation styles in Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web

    by Mendeley | 36 comments

    Status: planned
15. 191 votes

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    Advanced Search, Boolean Operators & search-result ordering

    1) Currently there isn't any "Advanced Search" option to search by specific fields such as "Authors", "Year", "Journal" etc, much like in the Web of Science search. While it is possible to use field codes such as "Author:", etc, this would make s... more

    1) Currently there isn't any "Advanced Search" option to search by specific fields such as "Authors", "Year", "Journal" etc, much like in the Web of Science search. While it is possible to use field codes such as "Author:", etc, this would make searching a lot more user friendly

    2) I would like to have the ability to use BOOLEAN operators for searches (like AND, OR).

    3) Lastly, it would be nice to have more options with how searches are ordered. For example if I search "nanoscale", I get a list of all documents containing the word nanoscale. However this listing is haphazard. It would be nice if files having the search term in the title are given higher weighting, lumped together and show up at the top of the search ("A Mendeley PDF rank", much like Google's Page Rank =) ). If you eventually incorporate Abstract fields, then maybe give the next weighting to files with the word in the Abstract and subsequently list PDFs which contain the term in the body of the PDF text (maybe sorted in descending order of frequency of appearance of the search term).

    I think these would make the Search functionality absolutely awesome! Thanks for all the hard work on this great app!

    by Sudeep Mandal | 20 comments

    Status: started
16. 189 votes

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    PDFs should be attached with paths relative to a user-configurable base path

    If it would be possilbe to specify a document base path, all linked PDF paths could be specified relative to this base path. JabRef has similar functionality.

    One of the advantages is that one can then move easily between different machines (not migrate, but e.g. work on one during the day and ... more

    If it would be possilbe to specify a document base path, all linked PDF paths could be specified relative to this base path. JabRef has similar functionality.

    One of the advantages is that one can then move easily between different machines (not migrate, but e.g. work on one during the day and another during the evening), synchronising PDF directories by means of a tool such as unison or other file synchronisation, and mendeley would keep finding all attachments, as they would be at the same relative paths.

    This is especially useful if the different computers are running different operating systems. Fo rexample:

    Windows: C:\documents\articles\Smith1998.pdf
    (doc basepath is c:\documents\articles)

    Linux:
    /home/me/documents/articles/Smith1998.pdf
    (doc basepath is /home/me/documents/articles)

    Mendeley can easily find Smith1998 on both machines.

    by cpbotha | 16 comments
17. 179 votes

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    Delete pdfs from hard disk when paper is deleted from the library

    If I delete a reference from my mendeley library using the desktop client, the folders & pdf on the hard drive remain. Surely if the reference has been deleted from the library then the pdf should be deleted from the hard disk library too?

    by richstanton | 13 comments
18. 162 votes

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    Journal abbreviations

    Currently the "Nature" style is not correct due to no distinction between journal and journal abbreviation.
    It would be nice to offer an option of an abbreviation list of journals like in JabRef.

    by mleini | 17 comments
19. 159 votes

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    Allow file storage on any server.

    I like the idea of syncing my library with a server, but find it undesirable to use Mendeley's. I understand that Mendeley is trying to run a business, but making your server side storage system more open really would encourage people like me to stick with your software. I don't like the idea of ... more

    I like the idea of syncing my library with a server, but find it undesirable to use Mendeley's. I understand that Mendeley is trying to run a business, but making your server side storage system more open really would encourage people like me to stick with your software. I don't like the idea of uploading my library to foreign servers.

    by Jordan Perr | 11 comments
20. 142 votes

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    Allow printing of PDF papers within Mendeley Desktop

    A simple "Print" menu under File would be good. Control-P doesn't even work now though.

    by Shaneal Manek | 11 comments

    Status: planned