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Citavi Picker

by Citavi by Swiss Academic Software GmbH

v2025.11.12.23 Updated Nov 18, 2025 1.41MiB
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Description

Citavi is a program for reference management and knowledge organization published by Swiss Academic Software (Switzerland). The Citavi Browser Picker help you easily transfer information from your browser to your Citavi project. The Picker uses three different methods to import bibliographic information into your Citavi project: * Importing with the Hunter * Finding Bibliographic Information by ISBN or DOI * Adding Webpage Metadata Languages: English, German, French, Spain, Italian, Portuguese, Polish
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Reviews (19 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-15
Rayen Ochi

doesn't work 80% of the time, does not react to clicks most of the time, doesn't recognize a lot of pdfs... imagine paying for citavi and having to rely on this extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-17
Sönke P

Doesn't work at all anymore, for several weeks already (Win 11, Chrome v 134.0.6998.89)

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-25
Ainur Rosyidah

Not compatible with Chrome anymore

★☆☆☆☆2024-03-01
Kemal Karabulut

Hate from germany.

★☆☆☆☆2023-01-06
sherwin hatam

Needed it for uni work since my group settled on this "tool" to track our sources, somehow i ended up feeling like the tool, manually adding in sources. "With the add-on its really easy to add sources.", it's not. For the love of me i couldn't find my projects after logging in and as i can read from others here, people seem to share my experience. And how is it that all my google searches like "Citavi Picker Chrome Store" all lead to Citavis website and none to the chrome web store? Long story short, use anything but citavi.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-08
Nicolas Schlecker

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2022-01-26
Ki ng

Since a few days the web login doesn't function. The picker also doesn't recognize any open projects. Therefore, it can't be uesed at all. Restarting the machine several times as well as completely uninstalling the picker and Citavi, then installing the newest version of both didn't resolve the issue neither...

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-27
Jennifer Stevens

The picker does not work on the Citavi 6 update. Completely useless. Used to use it all the time. Nearly catestrophically disappointing as I was going to recommend this software to my employer, who employs ~14,000 scientists and engineers.

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-02
Amanda Taylor

Rubbish. Since Citavi 6 the picker hasn't worked. Unfortunate because when it was working it was really useful!

★☆☆☆☆2020-11-09
D D

both the program and plugin are getting worse with every patch... how are they even making money anymore?

★☆☆☆☆2020-10-08
李冲

always produces mistakes

★☆☆☆☆2016-11-11
Euler Tim (Oiler)

Abandoned. It doesn't work on Chromium based browser as SRWare Iron

★☆☆☆☆2015-01-24
MiK

Crashing after first attempt in Chrome 32Bit. Have to always repair Citavi in Windows to reactivate.

★★☆☆☆2020-03-04
Will Strong

citavi pickers is very useful for reference collection. However it crashed when Citavi upates.

★★★☆☆2022-10-31
horatiu noge

SOLUTION after 2 hours: 1. In Firefox: open the Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A). If the Citavi Picker is disabled, click Enable. It may not appear, go to search bar and write citavi picker and then install. 2.Chrome: FAQ from citavi support opened automatically in MS edge => picker does not appear => last option go to chrome webstore and download, problem was that on edge the download button did not appear and if I tried to go to the chrome web store in chrome it did not find citavi picker. UNTILL copied the link from ms edge in chrome and ONLY then it worked. 3. MS edge: can't remeber exactly, go to extensions and it should appear

★★★☆☆2020-01-15
TT Wen

Why do your engineers ignore the crash bug?

★★★☆☆2019-10-23
Ming

Citavi is the best software for organizing the knowledge and references. However, it is a pity that the citavi picker doesn't work perfectly for me. I'm now using the citavi 6.3 with chrome and firefox. Citavi picker doesn't appear after the ISBN number or DOI number all the time. For a search on google scholar, the picker flash and then disappears. Hope that the support team could help fixing this problem.

★★★☆☆2019-03-03
Xiaojun Qian

It was useful until these days. It is keep crashing now. I don't know what happened. Please fix this problem!

★★★☆☆2015-08-07
Rupert Jung

Doesn't show up in store when searching for 'citavi' or even copy & paste the name from this site. For some reason it sometimes takes ages until the result shows up in citavi.

Permissions (11)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks clipboardWrite Can write to your clipboard contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess identity Can use your Google account identity nativeMessaging Can communicate with programs on your computer offscreen scripting Can inject scripts into web pages storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 2025.11.12.23
Updated Nov 18, 2025
Size 1.41MiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026