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SURPRISING FACTS FROM 2022
As a global leader in information and analytics, Elsevier helps researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. We do this by facilitating insights and critical decision-making for customers across the global research and health ecosystems.
In 2022, remarkable progress has been made. Here are the highlights and some surprising facts.
Elsevier’s services across Academic & Government, Corporate and Health markets focus on: Databases & Tools including e-Reference content; Primary Research; and Print products. This story looks at Primary Research, Databases & Tools.
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PRIMARY RESEARCH
Elsevier helps researchers validate, improve and disseminate their scientific findings through its more than 2,800 journals, enhancing the record of scientific knowledge by applying high standards of quality and ensuring trusted research can be accessed, shared and built upon. In collaboration with 32,000 editors and almost 1.4m reviewers worldwide, many Elsevier journals are the foremost publications in their field, including flagship families of journals like Cell Press and The Lancet, now the number one journal globally in the general and internal medicine category, measured by citations. Research content is distributed and accessed via ScienceDirect, the world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research.
In 2022, Elsevier received almost 2.7m article submissions, publishing over 600,000 new research articles following peer review, with the global scientific community accessing over 1.8bn articles across its journal platforms.
Elsevier published over 150,000 open access articles, a year-on-year increase of over 26%, and launched 88 new journals the majority of which were Gold open access, growing the Elsevier portfolio to over 700 Gold open access journals.
Elsevier has invested in other research solutions, such as SSRN an open access online preprint community where researchers post early-stage research, Scopus Author Profiles showing preprints to provide an early view into a researcher’s focus areas and Digital Commons helping academic libraries showcase and share their institutions’ research via institutional repositories for greatest impact.
DATABASES & TOOLS
Elsevier offers tools for Academic & Government, Corporate and Health organisations helping them to solve critical and complex problems. Solutions include Scopus, SciVal, Pure, Interfolio, ClinicalKey, ClinicalPath, Reaxys, SciBite, HESI, Sherpath, Shadow Health, Complete Anatomy, Osmosis and Gravitas.
In the research space, Elsevier’s intelligence portfolio of products combines quality structured data, advanced data science, an array of indicators and clear visualisations to enable researchers, university management, policy-makers, funders and corporate research and development (R&D) executives to generate insights, set and implement research strategies and make decisions with confidence.
From curated and connected data in solutions such as Scopus, and artificial intelligence technology in SciVal, to the interoperability driven by Application Programming Interface technologies (APIs), the research intelligence portfolio integrates with and enhances the systems institutions rely on. In 2022, Elsevier acquired Interfolio, a provider of faculty information solutions for higher education, expanding offerings for academic institutions. For corporates, SciBite tools and the Data-as-a-Service proposition follow Elsevier’s ontology-led approach and support corporate R&D customers in extracting scientific insights from vast amounts of unstructured text and databases.
In 2022, Reaxys, Elsevier’s chemistry research platform enhanced its market leading position in chemistry patent coverage by extending its collaboration with LexisNexis PatentSight. Reaxys won the Data Engineering Excellence Award at the Data Science Excellence Awards, with the judges highlighting Reaxys Content Catalyst, and AI-powered, automated content enrichment production pipeline.
In health, Elsevier’s clinical solutions include digital solutions for nurses, care teams and patients. Its clinical reference platform, ClinicalKey, is designed to help doctors, nurses and students find clinically relevant answers through a range of trusted content across specialties. This includes Elsevier’s collection of medical reference content, including over 1,400 clinical overviews, over 5.8m images and over 80,000 medical videos in one integrated site. In 2022, we introduced ClinicalKey Now in India.
ClinicalPath provides pathways for cancer treatment, disease screening, with personalised, evidence-based oncology guidance for healthcare workers at the point of care.
Elsevier also serves students of medicine, nursing, and allied health professions. Sherpath, an adaptive teaching and learning solution, provides personalised learning paths at over 600 institutions, supporting more than 200,000 course enrolments, while ClinicalKey Student is used in over 310 medical schools globally. In 2022 Complete Anatomy, our 3D anatomy platform, launched the world’s most advanced full female anatomy model and the first model with diverse skin tones and facial features to better represent populations worldwide. Shadow Health's Digital Clinical Experiences allow nursing students to perfect clinical reasoning skills using Digital Standardized Patients, including modules for LGBTQI patients.
In commercial healthcare, identity, claims and provider data is combined with patient information to assist healthcare providers, pharmacies and insurers in delivering improved health outcomes, ensuring accurate and complete provider data and regulatory compliance.
In electronic reference, Elsevier provides authoritative reference content to scientific, technical and medical professionals. Flagship titles include Gray’s Anatomy, Nelson’s Pediatrics and Netter’s Atlas of Human Anatomy. 2022 saw the expansion of the new digital and print-on-demand MedReprints service, responding to demand from pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.
Every day, research and health professionals dedicate themselves to improving outcomes for communities, patients and society at large. Elsevier is 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.
Research leaders & 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 & 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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