US Software Company Acquires Citavi

QSR International is a growing innovator of software and services that enable the academic and the professional research communities to accelerate their work and quality of research outcomes. Citavi enables researchers to search resources from around the world, create tasks, analyze texts, save quotations and ideas, create outlines for drafts, and write reports, articles, or books – faster and efficiently.

Swiss Academic Software, the company behind Citavi, has now become part of QSR International. Citavi joins QSR’s product suite, alongside NVivo, the latest version of its popular research tool used by health, government, non-profit, academic and commercial researchers worldwide, as well as its Sonia student placement solution. “The combination of NVivo and Citavi raises the bar for research tools. With our NVivo qualitative data analysis suite and now, Citavi’s reference and knowledge management and note-taking solution, we provide a full breadth of capability while providing a platform for researchers to work individually or as a team through each step of the research process”, said Chris Astle, CEO of QSR International.

The synergies between QSR International and Citavi extend beyond just the companies’ formidable research tools, however. “We see this as a powerful next step toward forging a truly global research community by combining NVivo’s extensive network of users with Citavi’s user base concentrated in Germany, Switzerland and across Europe,” Astle said.