Here is a list of scientific publications which featured the Crazyflie (sorted by year):
J. Tosteberg and T. Axelsson, “Development of a wireless video transfer system for remote control of a lightweight UAV,” Master’s thesis, Linköping University, Sweden, June 2012. PDF
O. M. W. Dunkley, “Visual inertial control of a nano-quadrotor,” Master’s thesis, Technical University Munich, Germany, Sept. 2014. PDFCode
O. Dunkley, J. Engel, J. Sturm, and D. Cremers, “Visual-inertial navigation for a camera-equipped 25g nano-quadrotor,” in IROS2014 Aerial Open Source Robotics Workshop, 2014. PDFVideo
B. Landry, “Planning and Control for Quadrotor Flight through Cluttered Environments,” Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, June 2015. PDFVideoCode
W. Hönig, C. Milanes, L. Scaria, T. Phan, M. Bolas, and N. Ayanian, “Mixed Reality for Robotics”, IROS, 2015. Video