Intelligence Gathering: always one step ahead.

In addition to providing state-of-the-art professional publishing and support, Elsevier also shares with our publishing partners crucial and even unique market intelligence data and offers strategic advice based on the outcome of ongoing research.

Elsevier can provide sophisticated bibliometric and scientometric analyses (quantitative analysis-techniques of bibliographic and economic information) and couple this with related qualitative research data, all of which is offered as a service to our society partners. We can assist in detailed Impact Factor analysis to ascertain why these indicators have changed from one year to the next.

By using sophisticated journal profiling, keyword analysis techniques and citation mapping, the professional running of your society publication is accentuated and journal development can be facilitated using detailed performance indicators.

Apart from offering these comprehensive market performance analyses, Elsevier also undertakes key research activities. One example of this is a questionnaire based author satisfaction tool known as the Author Feedback Programme (a key indicator of how authors perceive journals, both Elsevier titles and the competitor titles). This questionnaire system can be activated for society journals that publish in partnership with us.

Society journal editors have the opportunity to attend the  Elsevier Editors′ Conferences and meet and discuss current issues with other editors from all areas of science, medicine and social sciences. We also offer communication activities with key abstracting and indexing services such as ThomsonScientific and Medline / PubMed.