Zotero is a free, open-source reference management tool that helps researchers collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share research sources. Its group libraries feature enables teams to collaboratively build and maintain shared reference collections, making it widely used in interdisciplinary and academic research projects. Zotero integrates with word processors and supports hundreds of citation styles. It is particularly relevant in Education, Social Sciences, Healthcare and Environmental Science.

Zotero supports interdisciplinary, co-production and distributed collaboration and is suited for pair work, small teams and organizational settings in remote, hybrid and in-person settings.

Zotero is classified as a well-documented tool, indicating broad adoption and available documentation. It is open source (licensed under AGPL-3.0), available on Web, macOS, Windows, Linux.