About

Docear was initiated in 2010 under the name SciPlore MindMapping by Joeran Beel and Bela Gipp as part of their PhD projects. In 2011, Stefan Langer and Marcel Genzmehr joined the core team and the project received research grants to further develop SciPlore MindMapping, since then being called Docear. This non-commercial open-source project, which has currently 36.000 registered users, is supported by several volunteers from around the world and by the DKE Group and the University of California, Berkeley.

If you want to cite Docear in your work, please cite:

Joeran Beel, Bela Gipp, Stefan Langer, and Marcel Genzmehr. 2011. Docear: An academic literature suite for searching, organizing and creating academic literature.  In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL‘11), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, pages 465-466, doi:10.1145/1998076.1998188. ACM.

 Team Project Partners
Joeran Beel
Dr. Joeran Beel
Product Management & Research
 Joeran Beel  
Stefan Langer
Stefan Langer 
Research & Development 
Prof. Dr. Andreas Nürnberger
Prof. Dr. Andreas
Nürnberger
OvGU
Marcel Genzmehr
Marcel Genzmehr 

Software Development

Jun.-Prof. Bela Gipp 

University of Konstanz
Information Science Group
 
Prof. Jim Pitman
Prof. Jim Pitman

UC Berkeley
Volunteers, Students & Interns Dr. Richard Geibel
Dr. Richard Geibel
S.U.P
Christoph Müller
Christoph Müller
Software Development
  Corinna
Corinna Breitinger
Research

Norman Meuschke
Norman Meuschke
Software Development

Cheng Xie
Software Development

Julius Seltenheim 
Software Development

Alexander Schwank
Software Development

Florian Wokurka
Software Developer
 
Michael Schleichardt
Software Developer
 
Paul Stüber
Software Developer
Mario Lipinski
Mario Lipinski
System Administration
 
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  Sponsors & Partners
Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology
German Federal Ministryof Economics and Technology
Data and Knowledge Engineering Group
Data and Knowledge
Engineering Group
 Europäischer Sozialfonds
Europäischer Sozialfonds
University of California, Berkeley
University of California,
Berkeley
 OvGU
OvGU Magdeburg 

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Investitionsbank Sachsen-AnhaltInvestitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt

Further credits go to (in no particular order): Dimitry Polivaev, Volker Boercher and the entire Freeplane team; Morten Omholt Alver and the entire JabRef team; Jörg Bühnemann; Jana Bork; Nick Friedrich; Hans-Henning Gabriel; Sebastian Götte; Patrick Lühne; Mathias Silbermann; Ammar Shaker; ookimi; nxstruong; Martin Nowack