Is Citavi Picker (Beta) safe?
Citavi Picker (Beta) scans webpages for bibliographic identifiers and checks them against the user's local Citavi project.
It registers content scripts on all HTTP and HTTPS pages and scans page text for identifiers such as ISBNs, DOIs, PMIDs, PMC IDs, and arXiv IDs. When identifiers are found, it sends them through Chrome messaging to the Citavi native host to check whether they already exist in the user's local Citavi project.
Who publishes itSwiss Academic Software GmbH - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
Swiss Academic Software GmbH - 1 other listing from the same operator, none carrying a finding
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Same store account
1 other listing published from this account, 200k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
Shared hosts - 20 hostnames
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
AI-generated. Findings may contain errors. Those marked Verified have been manually reviewed.
Publishers can request a review.
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Citavi Picker (Beta) contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- com.citavi.picker
Citavi Picker (Beta) sends data to com.citavi.picker. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.