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SURPRISING FACTS FROM 2021
As a global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier helps researchers share knowledge, collaborate, find funding opportunities and make discoveries. We help universities and governments evaluate and improve the impact of their research strategies. We help doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients, providing insights and tools to find the right clinical answers.
In 2021, remarkable progress has been made.
Here are the highlights and some surprising facts.
Elsevier services are focused on the following areas: Primary Research, Databases, Tools and e-Reference, and Print products. This story looks at Primary Research, Databases & Tools.
A full review is available in the 2021 RELX annual report.
PRIMARY RESEARCH
Primary Research accounts for around half of Elsevier's revenues.
Article submission volumes were 2.5m in 2021, in line with the elevated levels of 2020 and over 1.6bn articles were consumed by researchers.
Serving the global scientific research community, Elsevier published over 600,000 articles in 2021, 89% more than a decade ago.
Elsevier published over 119,000 open access articles in 2021, a year on year growth rate of over 46% and now accounts for around 20% of their total articles published. In 2021, Elsevier launched 105 new journals of which 95% were Gold open access, growing the Elsevier portfolio to over 600 Gold open access journals, more than any other publisher.
Elsevier’s over 2,700 journals enhance the record of scientific knowledge by applying high standards of quality in everything they publish and ensuring trusted research can be accessed, shared and built upon by others. In collaboration with 29,000 editors and 1.3m expert reviewers around the world, many Elsevier journals are the foremost publications in their field, including flagship families of journals such as Cell Press and The Lancet.
Articles published in Elsevier’s journals account for around 18% of global research output and 28% of citations, demonstrating Elsevier’s commitment to delivering research quality significantly ahead of the industry average.
Research content is distributed and accessed via ScienceDirect, the world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research. Elsevier has continued to invest in ScienceDirect and integrate new remote access methods to provide researchers with the ability to easily use its tools when working from home, safe in the knowledge that they are doing so securely, and that their privacy and data are protected.
DATABASES & TOOLS
Elsevier offers a broad portfolio of tools for academic and corporate researchers, healthcare organisations and medical and nursing schools. Leading solutions include Scopus, SciVal, Pure, ClinicalKey, ClinicalPath, Reaxys, SciBite, HESI, Sherpath, Shadow Health and Complete Anatomy.
Success in today’s research ecosystem requires access to quality information and insights to support decision making so that research can flourish, advance society and drive economic growth. Elsevier’s research intelligence portfolio of web-based products brings together quality structured data, advanced data science, an array of indicators and clear visualisations to enable researchers, university management, policy-makers, funders and corporate R&D executives to generate insights, set and implement research strategies and take decisions with confidence. From the curated and connected data in solutions such as Scopus, and the advanced artificial intelligence and semantic technology in SciVal, to the interoperability possible through Application Programming Interface technologies (APIs) enabling data exchange and transparent data inspection, the research intelligence portfolio integrates with and enhances the complex systems and services that institutions rely on for research success.
Elsevier is also committed to working with the community to help researchers solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Since the establishment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, Elsevier’s data scientists have been working to map global research to the UN SDGs, provide a measurable view of progress through a research lens and offer evidence-based insights for action. As well as SDG-focused reports, Elsevier has created, in partnership with the research community, pre-set Scopus search queries for each SDG, which are used in SciVal to help researchers and institutions track and demonstrate progress towards the SDG targets.
For healthcare professionals, Elsevier’s flagship clinical reference platform, ClinicalKey, is a knowledge solution designed to help doctors, nurses and students find the most clinically relevant answers through a wide range of trusted content across specialties. This includes Elsevier’s vast collection of leading medical reference content, including over 1,300 clinical overviews that provide quick clinical answers and summaries, over 5.3m images and over 80,000 medical videos in a single, fully integrated site. In 2021 an enhanced version of ClinicalKey was launched with a faster, more effective point of care guidance for physicians.
Elsevier’s clinical solutions also include Interactive Patient Education and Care Planning. ClinicalPath provides clinical pathways for cancer treatment, with personalised, evidence- based oncology guidance at the point of care. In 2021, Elsevier was awarded the Digital Health Award for its Covid-19 Healthcare Hub in the category of Web-based Digital Health.
In medical education, Elsevier serves students of medicine, nursing, and allied health professions in multiple ways including e-books and digital solutions. For example, Sherpath, an adaptive teaching and learning solution for nursing and health education, provides highly focused, personalised learning paths at over 500 institutions, supporting more than 200,000 course enrolments. Remote options for medical education continue to see strong adoption. Sherpath saw very strong growth, and Complete Anatomy, our 3D anatomy platform exceeded 2 million registered users, with 32% growth in subscribers. ClinicalKey Student is used by over 290,000 students in more than 280 medical schools and 260 nursing schools.
In 2021, Reaxys integrated its award-winning predictive retrosynthesis tool and substantially increased its patent coverage.
Elsevier employs 8,700 people, including 1,906 technologists around the world. Many of which began their careers in research and healthcare. We are committed to quality and innovation to improve the value we deliver to researchers, research leaders, librarians, funders, healthcare professionals and educators in an open, inclusive and collaborative manner.
Researchers
Elsevier supports academic researchers as they seek to break ground with their discoveries. We are honored to convene and support expert editorial teams who, in turn, ensure the quality of research. We enhance and amplify the work of researchers and help them stay on top of the never-ending flow of information in their fields and related fields. And we provide insights that help find funding, identify international, interdisciplinary and commercial collaborators, and manage data to ensure that their work is reproducible.
Librarians
Elsevier supports librarians in their role as connectors of the quality of knowledge and knowledge dissemination to advance their institutional mission. We provide options to publish and showcase their collections and share them openly.
Leaders and funders
Elsevier helps research leaders and funders understand their performance and the research landscape, identify researchers and cross-sector partners to advance their programs, recognize funding opportunities and manage the research enterprise.
Health professionals
Elsevier helps physicians, nurses and other clinicians improve the lives of patients. We provide evidence-based tools to help healthcare providers make faster, better decisions at the point of care and improve outcomes for patients. We provide content and digital tools to help them manage their work more efficiently and give patients a consistent quality of care.
Health educators and students
Elsevier works with health educators to prepare today's students for successful careers in medicine, nursing and health professions, providing world-class content and innovative teaching and learning tools that improve educational outcomes and help prepare students for healthcare practice.
R&D professionals
Elsevier supports corporate R&D professionals with information, data and analytics that allow them to save time, make better decisions and innovate at the speed and scale society expects of them.
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