Popularity

Popularity demonstrates the overall trends regarding the quantities of reviews of software in the Reference Management industry. While our popularity page does not discuss user satisfaction, product affordability, competition dynamics, or language support - Yummy will have pages for those subject matters too.

Overall Popularity

Reference Management is currently the 263rd most popular software category based on our figures with 77 ratings last year. Year over year, Reference Management's review count contracted by 52 ratings. Reference Management achieved its top popularity level in 2016 coming in 180th place with 83 ratings. It is presently seeing its worst relative popularity ranking. Over the last 7 years, the category has accrued 635 total reviews. As the 263rd most reviewed category globally, Reference Management is an extremely rare category.

Oldest and Newest Products in the Market

The oldest Reference Management product in our records is EndNote given its first customer review appearing 7 years ago. The newest Reference Management product in the category is ReadCube Papers with its first tracked review surfacing in 2019.

Popularity by Country and Region

The United States uses Reference Management software more than any other country and currently boasts 430 reviews. The United States is trailed by Canada, the United Kingdom, Spain, and India which have a collective average of 20 reviews. Over the past year Reference Management category lost popularity in the United States to become the country's 245th most reviewed category. The most frequently used Reference Management products are Mendeley with 298 ratings, EndNote with 205 ratings, and ReadCube Papers with 132 customer reviews.

Popularity by Business Size

Many companies using Reference Management technology products are large businesses, accounting for 49% of all reviews. They are trailed by small business customers (32%), and medium business customers (19%). The usage of Reference Management software solutions for large businesses appears to be shrinking currently, shrinking to 39% of the previous year's value. Reference Management software for medium businesses have experienced a recession as well, falling 39% of the prior year's value.

Popularity by Industry

The top industries for Reference Management are higher education, research, hospital and health care, education management, and biotechnology.