Fast facts about Elsevier
Elsevier is the world’s leading scientific publisher and data analytics company, with a legacy that extends back more than 140 years. We help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Our 9,700 employees serve academic and government institutions, top research and development intensive corporations, healthcare institutions, and medical and nursing students in over 170 countries and territories.
Trusted partner
17% of global research output
In the latest long-term market comparison, Elsevier journal articles accounted for over 17% of global research output and 29% of citations, demonstrating Elsevier’s commitment to quality significantly ahead of the industry average.
3,000 digitized journals
We publish more than 3,000 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell. Our 48,000+ eBook titles include iconic reference works such as Gray’s Anatomy.
99% of Nobel Laureates
Since the year 2000, more than 99% of the Nobel Laureates in science and economics have published in Elsevier journals.
1.5m Research4Life downloads
As a founding partner and leading contributor to Research4Life, a unique UN-publisher partnership, Elsevier provides 16% of the 245,000+ peer reviewed resources, encompassing about 5,400 journals and 34,000 eBooks. In 2024, there were over 1.3 million Research4Life downloads from ScienceDirect.
Open access
36k institutions served
Elsevier offers a range of pay-to-read and pay-to-publish options, both subscription-based and transactional, to fit the diverse needs of institutions, funders and researchers worldwide. As of 2024, Elsevier serves over 3,600 institutions worldwide with transformative deals that support open access to research.
3k dedicated open access journals
Nearly all of Elsevier’s 3,000+ journals enable open access publishing, with more than 890 dedicated author-pays journals — the largest portfolio of open access titles in the industry.
250k open access articles
Elsevier published more than 250,000 open access articles in 2024 — a year-on-year increase of over 30%.
Supporting the research community
3.5m article submissions
In 2024, Elsevier received nearly 3.5 million article submissions, publishing over 720,000 new research articles following peer review, with the global scientific community accessing articles over 2.4 billion times across its journal platforms.
22m articles and book chapters
ScienceDirect®, the world’s largest platform dedicated to peer-reviewed primary scientific and medical research, hosts over 22 million pieces of content from over 5,100 journals and over 48,000 eBooks and has over 20 million monthly researchers.
90m scholarly records
Scopus® uniquely combines an expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and links to scholarly content with more than 90 million records from over 30,000 journals, 149,000 conferences, 289,000 books and 1.56 million preprints from more than 7,000 publishers in 105 countries.
1b chemistry data points
Reaxys, Elsevier’s chemistry research platform, combines over 1 billion chemistry data points with AI to support innovation in drug discovery, chemical R&D and academia. It utilizes data on 298 million substances and 68 million reactions, with over 118 million documents and 44 million patents.
18.6m biological relationships
In 2023, Elsevier launched EmBiology, a research tool that draws on more than 150,000 clinical trials and includes 1.49 million biological entities and over 18.6 million biological relationships extracted from literature to help researchers to gain a rapid understanding of disease biology and focus on critical evidence.
Supporting the health community
700 educational institutions
Sherpath® provides highly focused, personalized learning paths at over 700 institutions, supporting more than 300,000 course enrollments in nursing and health education.
4.5m registered users worldwide
Over 4.5 million registered users in more than 650 medical schools and universities worldwide are using Complete Anatomy, the world’s most advanced 3D anatomy education platform — with the most comprehensive full female anatomy model and the first model with diverse skin tones and facial features to better represent populations worldwide. In 2024, we introduced Complete HeartX, the #1 rated healthcare app for the Apple Vision Pro.
5k hospitals and medical schools
ClinicalKey®, our flagship clinical reference platform, is used by doctors, nurses, medical students and educators at 5,500 institutions in over 80 countries and territories, and ClinicalKey Student is used in over 360 medical schools globally.
4m registered learners worldwide
Osmosis®, the world’s leading medical education platform, has more than 4 million registered learners, over 3 million YouTube subscribers, and over 200 institutional partnerships, including marquee clients such as NYU, Imperial College London, CDC and NORD.
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