RELX: driving innovation in Europe
RELX is a global company, rooted in Europe and headquartered in the UK. The combination of our rich data sets, technology infrastructure and knowledge of how to use next generation innovation allow us to create effective solutions for our users. This enables the communities we serve to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
We help researchers advance scientific knowledge; doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients; lawyers promote the rule of law and achieve justice and fair results; businesses and institutions prevent fraud and fight financial crime; and connect thousands of businesses to foster economic development in Europe.
RELX is a responsible steward of data, a developer of innovative technology, and a provider of trusted information.
our business in numbers
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Risk
We combine data and analytics with deep industry expertise to help customers make better decisions and manage risk.
We do business with
84%
of the Fortune 500 companies and
9
of the world’s top 10 banks
Science, Technical & Medical
We help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes.
ScienceDirect hosts over
21m
pieces of content and has over
20m
monthly unique visitors
Legal
We provide legal, regulatory, and business information & analytics that help customers improve decision-making and achieve better outcomes.
On average, over
2.2m
new legal documents are added daily from over
50,000
sources
Exhibitions
We combine industry expertise with data and digital tools to help customers connect face-to-face and digitally.
Every year we connect more than
6m
visitors with thousands of European businesses in
300
face-to-face events across 42 industry sectors
advancing the UN Sustainable development Goals
In 2015, a global agenda to ensure a fairer, safer and more sustainable future by 2030 was unanimously adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations. The Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs are the to-do list for the world.
As we pass the halfway point for the SDGs, many of the goals are worryingly off track and progress on 85% of the target indicators has stalled or even reversed.
Through our information, products and people, RELX remains committed to advancing the Global Goals. Discover some of the ways that we continue to support their achievement.
RELX: a strong partner for a resilient Europe
Competitive
Enabling the communities we serve to innovate and enhance Europe’s competitive potential by combining data analytics, deep sector expertise and technology.
Resilient
Supporting the resilience of the digital economy with trusted solutions to address cyber threats, combat fraud and fight corruption and financial crime.
Democratic
Upholding European values and democracy through countering disinformation, advancing legal and financial transparency and inclusion.
Evidence-based
Helping shape the future by providing data-driven insights, foresight and strategic planning tools.
our commitment to safe, responsible & trustworthy AI
As data science and artificial intelligence are increasingly applied across RELX to improve customer outcomes and business processes, we created the RELX Responsible AI Principles to guide their use.
As part of our responsible AI approach:
- We consider the real-world impact of our solutions on people
- We take action to prevent the creation or reinforcement of unfair bias
- We can explain how our solutions work
- We create accountability through human oversight
- We respect privacy and champion robust data governance
Some of our innovation stories
Lexis+ AI
Transforming the work of legal professionals
Generative AI is transforming legal work and the industry as we know it. LexisNexis Legal & Professional’s Lexis+ AI is a generative AI solution featuring conversational search, intelligent legal drafting, insightful summarisation, and document upload and analysis capabilities. The solution is supported by state-of-the-art encryption and privacy technology to keep sensitive data secure.
Lexis+ AI answers are grounded in one of the world’s largest repositories of accurate and exclusive legal content from LexisNexis, minimising the risk of invented content or hallucinations, and checking all citations against Shepard’s, a powerful legal citation tool to ensure citation validation.
Lexis+ AI excels at transforming legal work because it uses subject matter experts to fine-tune models for specific legal use cases. It uses prompt engineering that analyses a customer’s question and provides additional instructions to improve the model and integrates vast amounts of case law, legal data, news and other content capabilities using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to extend the capability of a model.
ClinicalKey AI
Unlocking the power of AI in clinical decision support
Elsevier’s ClinicalKey AI helps physicians access accurate evidence-based information at the point of care by combining Elsevier’s large corpus of trusted medical information with advanced AI technology to deal the overwhelming volume of complex cases that clinicians are required to manage daily. It features personalised conversational search to accelerate access to succinct, evidence-based clinical information from one of the world’s largest and most trusted bodies of medical information available to date. The solution has been designed to provide high-quality curated content and constantly refreshed evidence-based research to help clinicians in offering optimal patient experiences whether in a small clinic or a large hospital.
Conversational search means physicians can address challenging patient cases by getting access to a combination of the latest research, reference textbooks, clinical overviews, drug information and much more that clinicians trust. Physicians will also see citation links and underlying documents used to answer their questions to review the primary source documents. Finally, ClinicalKey AI will support follow-up questions and will recommend related ones for the physicians to consider. All content is licensed so users and institutions can feel confident in the information they are using.
LexisNexis PatentSight+
Providing innovators with contextualised and evidence-based IP insights and analytics
PatentSight+ is the leading analytics platform to support strategic decision-making. It enables the evaluation of patent quality and the benchmarking of patent portfolios.
The software provides insights on where to focus, enables innovators to report on the development of their patent portfolio and benchmarks against competitors.
LexisNexis PatentSight+ software features scientifically proven quality metrics and the well-presented analytics create transparency in the ever-increasing mass of global patent applications. The Patent Asset Index methodology featured in the software, differentiates high-value patents from low-value patents – empowers clients to make sense of the vast volumes of patent data in existence so that they can become more efficient and use data-driven insights to guide their decisions. Users can analyse the portfolios of their competitors, suppliers and customers and track the presence of new industry players. This helps them to spot gaps in the market and to identify early on any disruptive technologies that might create a risk to their business or present new opportunities.
PatentSight+ already features machine learning and AI-powered technology classification and will soon provide further AI-supported features developed in close collaboration with customers and interested parties. This next generation of AI-powered IP analytics is designed to further strengthen the work of IP professionals by enabling faster speed to insight and expanding the range of business-relevant information made available by the IP team.
Scopus AI
Empowering researchers with novel ways to discover scientific information
Researchers, especially those early in their careers and those working across disciplines, face significant challenges and complexity in their daily work, including an ever-growing volume of data, prevalent misinformation and increasing workloads.
Elsevier’s Scopus AI, based on over 29,000 academic journals from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, helps them understand and explore a particular topic quickly, make connections across disciplines and collaborate with others to ensure the research has greater academic and societal impact. Scopus AI provides easy to read digestible summaries, with links to research papers and the ability to go deeper in seconds.
Scopus AI uses OpenAI’s GPT and other LLM technology in combination with Elsevier’s own technologies. It uses fine-tuned mini language models for vectorising abstracts and is hosted on Azure. Its front end is built with a mix of JavaScript and CSS, while Python, Java, Elasticsearch and Langchain are utilised in the backend.
Cirium
Shaping the future of aviation
Cirium empowers the aviation industry with unparalleled data and analytics. With insights from over 2,000 data sources flowing into its central data platform, The Cirium Core, Cirium delivers unique, refined intelligence tailored to the industry’s needs.
The Cirium Core processes millions of data points daily from all corners of the air travel industry, transforming them for real-world applications to provide a complete, 360-degree view of any flight. This robust dataset includes aircraft fleets, flight status, schedules, aeronautical data, traffic, and fare information—offering essential insights for any travel or tourism-connected business to drive informed decision-making.
One of Cirium’s newest offerings is EmeraldSky. This advanced solution combines Cirium’s extensive data, analytics, and cutting-edge mathematical modeling to provide precise calculations of CO₂ emissions and fuel burn for every flight and each individual aircraft seat. By factoring in service class and seat space based on the airline’s specific layout, EmeraldSky offers the most accurate historical and predictive emissions data available—empowering the aviation industry on its journey toward net-zero by 2050.
RELX CO2 Hub
Counting the cost of carbon
The RELX CO2 Hub was launched in early 2022 and is a platform that collects, analyses, and visualises data about RELX’s emissions on a series of live dashboards. The aim is not only to measure and report on CO2 emissions, but also to change behaviours to cut the company’s emissions to as close to zero as possible.
The RELX CO2 Hub’s thirty-one daily refreshed dashboards include buildings, cloud and data centres, commuting, flights, homeworking, hotels, supply chain and others. Employees can even see their individual travel footprints, right down to individual flights and hotel stays.
The Hub also includes flight emissions data, thanks to aviation analytics company Cirium, part of RELX. Cirium has developed a new methodology based on fuel-burn rather than distance-travelled. It factors in a vast array of variables, including actual flight time (more relevant than distance in determining how much fuel was used), aircraft model, aircraft age, engine type, number of seats, passenger load, cargo load, weather, taxi time – even how long a plane idles on the runway or circles in the air. The level of precision and accuracy of Cirium’s calculations, based on fuel-burn as opposed to distance-travelled, has been validated by major carriers.
LexisNexis Digital Identity Network
Cybercrime detection and online fraud prevention in near real-time
The global cybercrime industry generates revenues that rival some of the largest economies of the world. Cybercriminals leverage stolen data such as login credentials and payment details for fraudulent activity on online banking and e-commerce sites in the wake of large-scale data breaches. To compound the problem, cybercriminals are able to dramatically increase the efficiency and scale of such attacks by using bots and botnets to run massive identity testing sessions to penetrate fraud defences.
The LexisNexis Digital Identity Network crowdsources intelligence from millions of daily consumer interactions including logins, payments, and new account applications across thousands of global businesses. Companies contribute the data in an anonymous and secure way, essentially creating a vast global repository of information on every single transaction processed on a yearly basis.
Ask ICIS
Making sense of global value and supply chains
Ask ICIS AI assistant combines the power of generative AI with ICIS trusted intelligence.
The landscape of commodity markets is evolving rapidly, becoming increasingly complex and dynamic. In such a challenging environment, the demand for accurate, real-time information has never been more critical.
Leveraging over 500m data points, Ask ICIS is the only AI solution with access to the exclusive real-time market intelligence and content published by ICIS editors and analysts, underpinned by unparalleled chemical and energy market datasets and decades of editorial expertise. Ask ICIS supports timely and confident strategic decision-making.
Ask ICIS offers a personalised experience, tailoring ICIS content to users' roles, regions, and priorities. This personalised view enables users to focus on relevant insights, saving valuable time and resources. Moreover, Ask ICIS supports multiple languages and includes in-response citations enabling users to explore and delve deeper into the details accompanying each response. With Ask ICIS users will also receive bespoke suggested prompts and follow-up questions to allow users to uncover additional insights and “unknown unknowns” to gain an unprecedented view and understanding of market events.
RX
Embracing technology to create new online and in-person experiences
Attendees visit exhibitions to source new products, solutions and suppliers. And thanks to RX’s innovative range of digital engagement and event data capture tools, exhibitors now have more opportunities than ever to connect and do business with them:
- Over 90% of our 7m annual attendees use our online exhibitor directories to schedule their show ahead of their visit. Premium Listings, incorporating product carousels, offer enhanced opportunities to increase brand visibility, capture leads and secure one2one business meetings at this crucial time.
- Mercury, our registration system, uses attendee data and AI to recommend exhibitors to individual visitors based on the products and solutions they are searching for.
- Additional recommendations are generated on our event platforms based on visitor website navigation to suggest further qualified matches.
- Emperia, our badge-scanning mobile app, allows exhibitors to quickly and reliably capture and score leads on the show floor. These leads are informed by Mercury, enriching and qualifying the lead data.
eyeWitness to Atrocities
Helping bring war criminals to justice
In 2015 LexisNexis Legal & Professional and the International Bar Association (IBA) launched the eyeWitness to Atrocities app, which collects, verifies, catalogues and stores images for use as evidence in a court of law while safeguarding the individuals who have taken them. As a result, footage from app users is helping the investigations and analyses of organisations such as the United Nations and the International Criminal Court, as well as European war crimes units, domestic courts, and international police forces.
eyeWitness has captured over 65,000 photo, video and audio files across high-risk regions, and has submitted over 71 dossiers to accountability mechanisms around the world so far. In September 2018, a military tribunal in Bukavu (Democratic Republic of the Congo) condemned two high-ranking commanders for murder and torture constituting crimes against humanity. These convictions represent the first time eyeWitness app video footage was submitted to proceedings as incriminating evidence, and an all-time first in the DRC.
In December 2016, eyeWitness won the Geneva Centre for Security Policy Prize for Innovation in Global Security. The Prize for Innovation in Global Security recognizes individuals or organizations that have created innovative solutions that address international security challenges.
RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers, enabling them to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive.
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