Citavi is a reference manager which works well with various word processor software. However, Citavi is more than reference manager. It also provides tools for users to quote important texts, to write summary and to arrange the references according to your article's structure. After you have done those, when you are working with your article, Citavi will detect the current chapter of your article and will show you relevant references and knowledge (those quotations and summaries that you have made before). Very handy! Citavi also provides a free student version which allows users to manage up to 100 references. This is very generous, considering Citavi has excellent features necessary for writing scientific articles.

Citavi does not work on Mac. Users need to install third party software to allow Citavi in a Mac. That's a shame since this limits the user base.

By using a literature program you want to collect knowledge and want to share it. Working together in a team can be done now with the cloud version very easily without boundaries. Making comments, notes and using the citations for the resulting article can be done quickly and efficiently.

The list of features is very long. All in all it is the easyness of using the program at first which makes it possible to use it for beginners and also later on for real research. We can make Citavi as required for our students without making them troubles - it is the opposite. Often students discover that they get more time concentrating on the content and do not have to think about citation rules, e.g.

For sure there are missing features - this is always the case when you use a software as this is a living process. But the missing points are on a high level. Often it could be discovered that they have been built in already when asking the support people. So, there is no speacial feature which could be presented here.

The category function, where you can categorize your literature sources, meaning divide your literature sources per topic. You can take notes or extract portion of a document and label it as direct or indirect citation

It's free of charge until 100 references. This is few for a normal project/manuscript or for a thesis

- It offers everything you need for research (finding texts, analysing texts, formatting the in-text citations and the Works Cited, etc.) - It helps you keep track of your tasks (which texts do I still have to read/scan/borrow, etc.) - The customisable categories and keywords are extremely helpful when you quickly need to find all titles concerned with a specific topic. - Allows you to compile grouped lists of titles (e.g. all titles from a certain time span or all titles within a certain category). - Allows you to search all of your quotes and all OCR’d pdfs in your project at once. - The support is phenomenal! They answer extremely fast and always propose helpful individual solutions. I once had a pretty big bug in my project and the support spend several days solving it – even though I’m only a PhD student. Long story short: I couldn’t write my PhD thesis without Citavi.

It might be a bit too complex for undergraduate students, but with their 10-25 pages papers and 30 secondary sources max, they don’t need a knowledge management system anyways. I’d say the best time to start using Citavi is in your first M.A. semester.

I have been using Citavi since my last years of high school all through university and for my PhD thesis. Without citavi, I would not know how to effectively organize my sources. With citavi, it is super easy to keep track of thousands of sources and also retrieve them again after years, even if you didnt know anymore that you have a source.

The product is incredibly powerful. In my opinion, there are two core functions: on the one hand, you can use Citavi to organize materials (like papers and other files). On the other hand, you can use citavi to facilitate citing those materials when writing papers. But, you do not have to use both. Already, the organizing function is incredibly powerful.

Personally, I am not missing anything. But you have to keep in mind that it is an incredible powerful tool, so you need time to discover those functions you need most.

Our experience has been mostly positive, although our few encounters with others besides our sales contact has not been great. The company needs to have a more responsive tech support team willing to talk with customers on the phone. They keep wanting to deflect us to Q&As and email questions. Since we are in North America and Citavi is in Europe, this can mean at least 24 hours before our query is read and responded to.

Can be adaptable to our house style, has gatekeeper functionality, quite easy to learn and use

Support is not as responsive as we had hoped; The Rep on the sales side has saved us from extreme frustration; support people unwilling to help in any way besides email - which we find inflexible and counter to our reasons for choosing this provider. Citavi is lucky to have that rep on their team!

I am writing papers in social science/education. (you should give the item education without management to your 'industry drop down menu). It's so helpful in gathering sources quickly and not always re-search citations again. I would never miss it.

CITAVI is a SUPER stable, easy to use and useful program. Within years of working with it I collected 1635 sources, many with quotations and some with full text. The most extreme example for its value: I wanted to contribute to a scientific discussion in a journal where the deadline was already over. But since they were also interested in my statement, they gave me 5 days for the article. So I wrote a theoretical statement about sience in a certain context of 22 pages within only 5 days (working day and night ;-}} ). Without CITAVI I would have needed at least 14 days!!!! I really would never miss it!

I am sorry. I worked with Citavi for years (Vers. 2?) and never found a spare wish.

Citavi is a comprehensive software that can handle reference management, annotation, outlining, organization, citation, and more. I use it daily for my scholarship requirements at my university and to work on my dissertation. I can't imagine managing all of my resources, annotations and ideas without it. It's absolutely essential for me and I would highly recommend it. I've also found the Citavi support team to be outstanding - very knowledgeable and I've always received a response within 24 hours.

Very little. It could be a bit more user friendly, especially with citations, and can be occasionally buggy, but that's because it has so much functionality.

Citavi allows me to manage a big part of my scientific work at one place

The possibility to link dozens of scientific sources, to analyse literature digitally, to import literature sources directly from the internet and to manage bibliographies when writig publications is great, because ist is so easy and reliable.

The export of all the citations and comments out of one single source should become less laborious.

I used Citavi mainly during my studies to write scientific papers.

The automatic creation of the literature list and the function to load bibliographic information based on the DOI have saved me days of error-prone work. The knowledge management functions are also good, even if I have not used them so intensively.

I often had problems with the Word plugin. In this case, Citavi sometimes crashed completely. There are workarounds for this on the internet, but it's still not ideal.

Lo he utilizado desde hace aproximadamente 5 años, desde su versión 5 hasta la más reciente, sumamente útil para crear mis "bibliotecas" digitales y realizar de forma organizada mis lecturas.

Permite gestionar una gran cantidad de material bibliográfico, así como su captura mediante la extensión del explorador web, y su facilidad de manejo mediante el Plug-in de Citavi en Word, haciendo posible añadir citas textuales y sus respectivas referencias de manera sencilla en nuestros escritos, lo cual posibilita que los procesos de lectura y escritura vayan de la mano en todo momento.

El único aspecto negativo se debe a que no cuenta con un plug-in para software libre de procesamiento de textos, como lo es OpenOffice.

Alles in einem ist Citavi ein gut geeignetes Toll, wenn man bereits einige Zeit auf dem Feld der wissenschaftlichen Forschung ist und kein Problem mit einem nicht intuitiv bedienbarem Softwareinterface hat. Besonders geeignet ist die Software für Personen, die Wert auf eine Literaturstrukturierung legen, Citavi wird in diesem Fall auf jeden Fall Abhilfe schaffen!

Der größte Vorteil von Citavi ist wahrscheinlich die Intention der Software, eine umfangreiche Literatur- und Wissensverwaltung zu ermöglichen, weshalb sie hauptsächlich von mir genutzt wird.  Konkret gesagt kann man mit ihr gut Ideen strukturieren und Texte analysieren und behält so einen Überblick beim Schreiben einer wissenschaftlichen Arbeit. Lobenswert ist zudem das Recherchetool sowie der Internet - Picker, mit dem Informationen simpel inkludiert werden können. Ferner ist die Teamfunktion ziemlich praktisch, denn durch diese wird eine Zusammenarbeit an den Quellen bzw. der Literatur im Allgemeinen ermöglicht. Bücher können zudem per ISBN importiert werde, was ebenfalls ziemlich sinnvoll ist. Abschließend sind noch die einfache Integration in Microsoft Word sowie die Möglichkeit in der Cloud zu arbeiten positiv erwähnenswert.  Alles in einem kommt man auch mit der kostenfreien Variante weit!

Negativ anzumerken sind erfahrungsbasierte Verluste von Daten und das Softwareinterface. Letzteres ist nämlich meiner Meinung nach sehr unübersichtlich und nicht anfängerfreundlich gestaltet, an dieser Stelle ist die Beachtung der UX leider zu kurz gekommen.

Pour moi le meilleur, grace à ce gestionnaire de connaissances. Il nécessite un temps d’adaptation pour être bien maîtrisé, mais s’utilise assez facilement si on reste sur les fonctions de base référencement, citation.

En plus de la gestion bibliographique citavi gère les connaissances, c.-à-d. toutes les notes, surlignages associés à un article qui peuvent être classées et cherchées. La citation dans Word se fait par recherche de la référence ou de la connaissance associée, plus besoin de se souvenir de la publi, juste de ce qu’il y a dedans. Plugin citation, plugin capture, travail collaboratif. Une version gratuite permet de gérer 100 citations par bibliothèque créées. Peu s’utiliser comme une GED pour les plus débrouillards

Assez pratique en mode une bibliothèque = 1 thèse / articles, un peu plus compliqué quand on cherche à n’avoir qu’une bibliothèque pour tout, cours, articles, pour tout organiser correctement (>700 réf). Les références doivent alors être gérées par catégorie plutôt qu’en « chapitre ». Le gestionnaire de connaissances nécessite un temps de prise en mains pour comprendre les différents types de référencement.

sehr viele verschiedene Möglichkeiten zur Literaturverwaltung, hohe Anpassungsfähigkeit an individuelle Wünsche und Bedürfnisse; guter Support;

Die systematischen Literaturrecherchen können mit Citavi sehr gut organisiert, strukturiert und verwaltet werden. Ich benötige keine zusätzlichen Excel-Listen o.ä. Sehr hilfreich finde ich die verschiedenen Varianten zur Textannotierung und die unterschiedlichen Verknüpfungsmöglichkeiten mit meinen Texten. z.T. sind verlagsspezifische Zitierstile hinterlegt, das ist sehr komfortabel; Arbeiten im Team mit gemeinsamen Cloud-Projekten ist gut möglich.

Beim Umzug von Citavi 5 (lokales Projekt) auf Citavi 6 (Cloud-Projekt) gingen Anhänge, Verknüpfungen und vereinzelt Titel verloren. Damals umfasste das Projekt ca. 1500 Titel. Die Anleitungen im Handbuch dazu fand ich nicht ausreichend. Der Support war bemüht mir zu helfen, es konnte aber nicht das gesamte Projekt gerettet werden.

Eine sehr gute Software ohne Schnick-schnack, die sich ständig weiterentwickelt mit einem qualitativ sehr hochwertigen Support. Bei richtiger Verwendung spart die Software viel Zeit und Nerven

- Zentrales Management der Metadaten an einer Stelle (Autorenname, Journal etc.) - Zitierstile jeglicher Journals (international) enthalten, immer aktuell und mit einem Klick umstellbar - Citavi-Picker, mit einem Klick Quellen importieren (spart sehr viel Zeit) - Sehr schneller und sehr guter Kundensupport, auch am Wochenende - Arbeit mit mehreren Autoren an einem Projekt möglich - Verschlagwortung der Artikel, Zitate etc. möglich - Export nach Excel, z.B. für Meta-Analysen der verwendeten Literatur

- Je nach Version lädt Word das Citavi Add-in manchmal nicht, kann einfach behoben werden (Optionen - Add-ins)