Elsevier
Dutch publishing and analytics company
Elsevier, Inc. ( EL-sə-veer) is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content. Its products include journals such as The Lancet, Cell, the ScienceDirect collection of electronic journals, Trends, the Current Opinion series, the online citation database Scopus, the SciVal tool for measuring research performance, the ClinicalKey search engine for clinicians, and the ClinicalPath evidence-based cancer care service. Elsevier's products and services include digital tools for data management, instruction, research analytics, and assessment. Elsevier is part of the RELX Group, known until 2015 as Reed Elsevier, a publicly traded company. According to RELX reports, in 2022 Elsevier published more than 600,000 articles annually in over 2,800 journals. As of 2018, its archives contained over 17 million documents and 40,000 e-books, with over one billion annual downloads.
As of 2019, Elsevier's about page no longer describes the company as a publisher, but as a "global information analytics business", with only their "roots in publishing".
Elsevier has been criticized for its high profit margins and copyright practices. The company had a reported profit before tax of £2.295 billion with an adjusted operating margin of 33.1% in 2023.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Elsevier” as dutch publishing and analytics company. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as dutch publishing and analytics company. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q746413. VIAF identifies the subject as 152166420. The Library of Congress control number is n79021939. 5 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2022, 2018 and 2019.
Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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- Expand the search: follow Elsevier primary sources, Elsevier archive and Elsevier research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
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- Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “Elsevier” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.