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Elsevier

Amsterdam, Netherlands• Founded 1880

Elsevier is a global information analytics and scientific publishing company that provides journals, books, and digital solutions for researchers, clinicians, and institutions. It is part of RELX and operates platforms and tools that support research discovery, clinical decision support, and research performance analytics.

AI Strategy

Elsevier applies machine learning and natural language processing across its content and analytics platforms to improve search, recommendation, entity linking, and research/clinical insights. Its AI strategy centers on embedding AI into workflow products while leveraging proprietary curated content and taxonomies to enhance model performance and trust.

Key AI Products

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Financials

Business Focus

Scientific publishingResearch information & analyticsClinical decision supportResearch workflow tools

Competitive Analysis

Strengths

  • Large corpus of peer-reviewed scientific and medical content
  • Strong portfolio of research and clinical workflow products
  • Established institutional distribution and long-term contracts
  • Data/metadata assets (citations, abstracts, indexing) that support analytics and AI features

Challenges

  • Reputational and pricing pressure in academic publishing (open access and subscription costs)
  • Dependence on institutional budgets and policy shifts (open science mandates)
  • Competition from open platforms and alternative metrics/analytics providers

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