As of September 2026, Latka tracks 7 reference management software companies with $1M–$5M in annual revenue. They have combined revenues of $15.7M and employ 143 people.
Every company below sells reference management software to other businesses and is ranked by its most recent annual revenue. Revenue, funding, headcount and customer figures come from CEO interviews on the Latka podcast, public company filings, and Latka estimates where a company has not disclosed a number.
Reference Management Software facilitates the organization, storage, and retrieval of references and citations for academic and research purposes. This category is essential for researchers, students, and professionals who require efficient management of bibliographic information. The software typically includes features that allow users to import, organize, and format citations in compliance with various citation styles. Primary use cases for Reference Management Software include academic writing, research projects, and collaborative works where multiple sources must be tracked and referenced accurately. Common features may include the ability to manage PDFs, auto-generate citations, and create bibliographies. Users range from individual researchers and students to academic institutions and research teams, underscoring its importance in academia and professional research contexts.
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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.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
At Paperpile, we develop software that simplifies the way researchers and students find, organize, read, and write academic papers. Our suite of apps—spanning web, mobile, and desktop platforms—is trusted and loved by thousands of users worldwide in academia and industry. In addition to our industrial-strength reference management solutions, our free citation tool BibGuru is used by more than 2 million students every month.
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
"Get credit for all of your research." Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already been carried out. FigShare allows you to share all of your data, negative results and unpublished figures. In doing this, other researchers will not duplicate the work, but instead may publish with your previously wasted figures, or offer collaboration opportunities and feedback on preprint figures.
Latka tracks 7 reference management software companies with $1M–$5M in annual revenue. Together they generate $15.7M in annual revenue and employ 143 people.
Clearbrief.ai is the largest, with $3.6M in annual revenue, founded in 2020.
The average reference management software company in this list makes $2.2M a year, across 7 companies with reported revenue.
Ranked by annual revenue, the leaders are Clearbrief.ai, Sourcer, DeepDyve, Digital Scholar and wizdom.ai.
- Must enable users to import and organize references from various sources. - Must include tools for citation formatting in multiple styles (e.g., APA, MLA). - Should allow for collaboration among multiple users or researchers. - Must offer the ability to manage attached documents, such as PDFs. - Not just a citation generator; must also provide robust reference management capabilities.
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