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.
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 Dr. Joeran Beel Product Management & Research     |
 Stefan Langer Research & Development |
 Prof. Dr. Andreas Nürnberger OvGU |
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 Marcel Genzmehr Software Development |
Jun.-Prof. Bela Gipp University of Konstanz Information Science Group  |
 Prof. Jim Pitman UC Berkeley |
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| Volunteers, Students & Interns |  Dr. Richard Geibel S.U.P |
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 Christoph Müller Software Development |
 Corinna Breitinger Research |
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 Norman Meuschke Software Development |
 Cheng Xie Software Development |
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 Julius Seltenheim Software Development |
 Alexander Schwank Software Development |
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 Florian Wokurka Software Developer |
Michael Schleichardt Software Developer |
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| Paul Stüber Software Developer |
 Mario Lipinski System Administration |
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 German Federal Ministryof Economics and Technology |
 Data and Knowledge Engineering Group |
 Europäischer Sozialfonds |
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 University of California, Berkeley |
 OvGU Magdeburg |
 EXIST |
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 Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt |
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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
