RELX
RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British[2] multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Its businesses provide scientific, technical and medical information and analytics; legal information and analytics; decision-making tools; and organise exhibitions. It operates in 40 countries and serves customers in over 180 nations.[3] It was previously known as Reed Elsevier, and came into being in 1993 as a result of the merger of Reed International, a British trade book and magazine publisher, and Elsevier, a Netherlands-based scientific publisher.
For the employment agency, see Reed (company).Company type
Information and analytics
- Elsevier
- Reed International PLC
August 1993
(by merger)
London, England, UK
- Paul Walker (chairperson)
- Erik Engström (CEO)
- Nick Luff (CFO)
Information and data analytics, academic and business publishing, exhibitions
£9.161 billion (2023)[1]
£2.682 billion (2023)[1]
£1.788 billion (2023)[1]
£14.917 billion (2023)[1]
£3.439 billion (2023)[1]
36,500 (2023)[1]
The company is publicly listed, with shares traded on the London Stock Exchange, Amsterdam Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange (ticker symbols: London: REL, Amsterdam: REN, New York: RELX). The company is one of the constituents of the FTSE 100 Index, AEX Index, Financial Times Global 500 and Euronext 100 Index.
Operations and market segments[edit]
Scientific, Technical & Medical[edit]
RELX's Scientific, Technical & Medical business provides information, analytics and tools that help investors make decisions that improve scientific and healthcare outcomes. It operates under the name of Elsevier:
ScienceDirect, an online database of primary research, contains 18 million documents.[67]
Scopus is a bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. It contains more than 50 million items in more 20,000 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide.[68]
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online.[69]
Elsevier is the world's largest publisher of academic articles. It published 600,000 articles in 2021.[70] Its best-known titles are The Lancet and Cell. In 1995, Forbes magazine (wrongly) predicted Elsevier would be "the first victim of the internet" as it was disrupted and disintermediated by the World Wide Web.[71]
