Top 21 Reference Management Software SaaS Companies in May 2026

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

ProQuest, from Clarivate, is committed to supporting the important work happening in the world’s research and learning communities. We curate content that matters to the advancement of knowledge, assembling an archive of billions of vetted, indexed documents. ProQuest simplifies workflows so that people and institutions use time effectively. And because ProQuest connects information communities, complex networks of systems and processes work together efficiently. With ProQuest, finding answers and deriving insights is straightforward and leads to extraordinary outcomes.

Denver, Colorado, United States

Turn data complexity into clarity with Lumivero – a leading provider of research and decision software built to help organizations simplify complex data, uncover meaningful insights, and drive confident decision-making. Whether you're in academia or enterprise business, our powerful combination of data analysis tools, AI-driven workflows, and expert-developed scientific methodologies gives you the clarity you need to discover innovations and make mission-critical decisions.

Henderson, Nevada, United States

Research Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: RSSS) is a leading provider of advanced, cloud-based technologies that streamline the process of discovering, accessing, and managing knowledge. Our suite of products, trusted by top-tier corporations, emerging businesses, and prestigious universities, are powered by AI and Natural Language Processing technologies with the ultimate goal of making data actionable, providing comprehensive and crucial information to support innovation from inception to realization.  Our recent acquisitions of scite and ResoluteAI have further bolstered our offerings, providing organizations with enhanced search, discovery, analysis, and knowledge management tools.  Serving over 70 vertical markets globally, we offer scalable solutions that simplify and enhance the entire research process for both internal and external data. Let's fuel the future of energy innovation together.

London, United Kingdom

Mendeley brings your research to life, so you can make an impact on tomorrow.

San Diego, California, United States

SourceForge is the complete software platform. SourceForge is the largest B2B software review and comparison directory in the world with nearly 20 million monthly users looking for software, reading user reviews, and comparing B2B software products. SourceForge's business software reviews and comparison directory lists over 105,000 B2B software products across over 4000 B2B software categories, and offers robust tools for business software and service comparisons and buying decisions, which allows B2B professionals to compare software and services by price, user reviews, integrations, deployment, region, support and training offerings, and more. Our team of business software and service experts, who have thousands of hours of software review and analysis experience, are constantly analyzing the B2B SaaS and service industry to bring users and B2B software shoppers the most up to date and cutting-edge analysis and comprehensive research. All product information, pricing, reviews, specifications, and details are provided by SourceForge’s team of research analysts, in conjunction with the vendors. The research and analysis produced by our business software and service analysts is exclusive to SourceForge. SourceForge also provides powerful tools for business software and services vendors to accurately showcase their offerings to potential buyers. With the tools we provide, developers on SourceForge have created over 500,000 software projects, and we host millions of registered users. Our popular directory connects nearly 20 million monthly users and serves more than 2.6 million downloads a day. Our open source toolset includes code repositories, download binary hosting, bug tracking, version control, download statistics, mailing lists, discussion forums, & more.

Seattle, United States

Find, analyze, and share the evidence behind your writing, right from Word. 2023 Litigation Product of the Year, Legalweek. 2022 New Law Company of the Year, LegalWeek. 2021 Startup of the Year, American Legal Technology Awards Clearbrief brings AI into Microsoft Word to give litigators faster insight into the evidence while they draft.

Delft, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands

Sourcer is an easy-to-use browser extension that aims to educate users on media literacy and make their process of reading news more efficient. We do that by providing insight that broadens readers’ knowledge in a time-saving manner. We aim to help academia educate students 
on media literacy, give them tools to supplement their research, and ultimately contribute to creating a more
 open-minded and informed society.

Redwood City, California, United States

DeepDyve is the largest online rental service for scientific, technical and medical research with over 30 million articles from thousands of authoritative journals. DeepDyve provides affordable access across thousands of peer-reviewed journals. Content from the world's leading publishers including Reed Elsevier, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and more. Using DeepDyve, people quickly and easily find, rent, and read the in-depth, high quality information they need to answer tough research questions spanning Life Sciences, Medicines, Physical Sciences, Technology, Patents, and other reference categories, with more vertical domains to be added over time.

Vienna, Virginia, United States

Parent organization for Omeka, PressForward, Sourcery, Tropy, and Zotero.

Milton, United Kingdom

wizdom.ai is an award-winning start-up launched through University of Oxford’s software incubator, which was acquired by Informa, a FTSE 100 company with 160 offices around the world. By leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data analytics, wizdom.ai combines various data sources across research outputs including publications, grants, patents, and clinical trials. With the most up-to-date picture of the global research landscape, wizdom.ai presents actionable insights that deliver intelligence for everyone.