Mendeley is an online application used for organizing research citation and annotating PDF documents. Mendeley enables arrangement of research articles with capabilities for working with academics, locally and internationally by using Web 2.0 idea for academic study. The present article will focus on characteristics, pros and cons of mendeley in research. Citation management, internet synchronisation and collaboration, Portable Document Format (PDF) management and annotation, and word processing programme integration are features of mendeley. This article considers potential effects of social networking tools like Mendeley in academic scholarship application process coming to close proximity