| > The lack of developers and thus slow pace of improvement [...] we are reliant on one or two volunteers to improve the product I'm not sure why you have that impression. Zotero has amazing, invaluable volunteers, but there's a paid, full-time dev team working on Zotero every day. In the last year, we've added: - Google Docs integration [1] - Unpaywall integration [2] - A new, greatly improved PDF recognition system [3] - Faster citing in large documents [3] - A much more powerful saving interface [4] - Mendeley import... - ZoteroBib, a free web service for generating bibliographies [5] - A barcode scanner for iOS [6] - Regular updates and bug fixes [7] [1] https://www.zotero.org/blog/google-docs-integration/ [2] https://www.zotero.org/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpa... [3] https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0-36/ [4] https://twitter.com/zotero/status/991052142717886464 [5] https://www.zotero.org/blog/introducing-zoterobib/ [6] https://www.zotero.org/blog/scan-books-into-zotero-from-your... [7] https://www.zotero.org/support/changelog (Disclosure: Zotero developer) |
It is fair to say though that it isn’t as well resourced as others, and is also starting from behind. As long as that momentum continues it should eventually be the de facto solution (iff Mendeley are going to make user unfriendly choices), but as yet I don't think it is comparable to the behemoths like R that have maturity and continuous development and thus are superior in every possible way to the paid alternatives (Stata, SPSS).