Clarivate formed in 2016, following the acquisition of Thomson Reuters' Intellectual Property and Science business by Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia. Since 2016, Clarivate acquired various companies, notably ProQuest in 2021.
On July 11, 2016, Thomson Reuters a $3.55 billion sale of its Intellectual Property and Science business to private equity firms Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia. The transaction was completed on October 4, 2016, and Clarivate Analytics became an independent company as a corporate spin-off.
In May 2019, Clarivate merged with the Churchill Capital Corp SPAC to obtain a public listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), trading under symbol CLVT.
On March 11, 2022, Clarivate, which has an office in Odesa, Ukraine, announced it would cease all commercial activity in Russia following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 22, 2022.
Operations
As of 2023,[update] Clarivate conducts operations through three strategic business units: Intellectual Property Group, Life Sciences & Healthcare Group, and Academic and Government Group, each led by a president.
Clarivate has been criticized for anti-competitive practices in an already oligopolistic academic database market for increasing prices of acquired products, a lack of development and integration of acquired products, not developing its own products, outsourcing jobs from the US and UK to India, and for eliminating telephone support for many acquired products.
Leadership Changes
On July 11, 2022, Clarivate announced Jerre Stead's retirement and transition from Executive Chair and CEO to Non-Executive Chair. IHS Markit CFO Jonathan Gear joined Clarivate as CEO-elect on July 11, 2022, becoming CEO on September 1, 2022.
On September 1, 2022, Clarivate announced Jerre Stead's retirement from the Board and appointment as Chair Emeritus effective October 20, 2022. On August 6, 2024, Clarivate appointed former ProQuest CEO Matti Shem Tov as CEO.
Acquisitions
June 1, 2017: Publons, a platform for researchers to share recognition for peer review.
April 10, 2018: Kopernio, AI startup providing capability to search for full-text versions of selected scientific journal articles.
October 30, 2018: TrademarkVision, provider of Artificial Intelligence (AI) trademark research applications.
September 9, 2019: SequenceBase, provider of patent sequence information and search technology for biotech, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
January 17, 2020: Decision Resources Group (DRG), a leading healthcare research and consulting company, providing high-value healthcare industry analysis and insights.
June 22, 2020: CustomersFirst Now, provider of intellectual property (IP) software and tech-enabled services.
October 1, 2020: CPA Global, intellectual property (IP) software and tech-enabled services provider.
December 1, 2021: ProQuest, a software and data analytics provider to national academic and research institutions.
March 21, 2024: MotionHall, a Silicon Valley start-up serving the life sciences with industry vertical AI solutions.
April 23, 2024: Global QMS, Inc., expanding Clarivate's Life Sciences & Healthcare segment into new markets.
July 22, 2024: Rowan TELS, enhancing support for patent practitioners.
The Web of Science (WoS; previously known as Web of Knowledge) is a paid-access platform that provides (typically via the internet) access to multiple databases that provide reference and citation data from academic journals, conference proceedings, and other documents in various academic disciplines.
The Web of Science Core Collection consists of six online indexing databases:
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), previously entitled Science Citation Index, covers more than 9,200 journals across 178 scientific disciplines. Coverage is from 1900 to present day, with over 53 million records
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) covers more than 3,400 journals in the social sciences. Coverage is from 1900 to present, with over 9.3 million records
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) covers more than 1,800 journals in the arts and humanities. Coverage is from 1975 to present, with over 4.9 million records
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) covers more than 7,800 journals in all disciplines. Coverage is from 2005 to present, with over 3 million records
Book Citation Index (BCI) covers more than 116,000 editorially selected books. Coverage is from 2005 to present, with over 53.2 million records
Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) covers more than 205,000 conference proceedings. Coverage is from 1990 to present, with over 70.1 million records
As Clarivate acquired ProQuest, various products of ProQuest are being operated under Clarivate, which encompasses products that ProQuest had taken on relatively recently, through acquisitions of its own—notably those of the library technology company Innovative Interfaces: Vega, Sierra, Polaris, Millennium, and Virtua.
Ex Libris Group is a software company specialising in the development of integrated library systems and associated library software. In 2015, the company was acquired by ProQuest, which was subsequently acquired by Clarivate in December 2021.
Cortellis
Cortellis comprises life science related intelligence services used to inform decision making across the drug and device development lifecycle, including:
Other database products and services used for searching and analyzing patents; IP administration and prosecution support services to support the IP lifecycle include:
Derwent Innovation
Derwent SequenceBase
Derwent Data Analyzer
GENESEQ
CompuMark
Information services used by brand and trademark professionals to evaluate new potential trademarks and monitor existing trademarks for infringement, including:
SAEGIS, online trademark screening
TM go365, self-service trademark research application
Full Search, analyst driven trademark searching
Watching, trademark protection
ScholarOne
ScholarOne is a submission management system to allow an editor of an academic journal to manage electronic submission of authors' manuscripts for publication, to recruit reviewers of those manuscripts, to check authors' compliance with the journal's requirements, and to communicate with authors. It was sold to the American software company Silverchair in 2024.
Clarivate publishes an annual Highly Cited Researchers list. The list compiles "the world's most influential researchers of the past decade, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in Web of Science." According to Clarivate, researchers are selected for their "exceptional performance" in one or more of 21 fields (those used in Clarivate Essential Science Indicators, or ESI) or across several fields. The 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers was released on November 19, 2019.
Clarivate Citation Laureates, formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates, is a list of candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in their respective field. The candidates are so named based on the citation impact of their published research.Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates was established in 1989. The list pertains to likely Nobel Prize winners in medicine, chemistry, physics, and economics. There appears to be a correlation between high citation rates for a published researcher and the award of prestigious accolades. Furthermore, citation rates disclose researchers furnishing instrumental contributions that advance the science of their respective field. Finally, choosing one tenth of one percent (0.1%) of the highest impact papers winnows the analysis to the topics and people most likely to be selected by Nobel selection committee.
From 2002 to 2020, 59 individuals listed as Citation Laureates have received Nobel prizes.
The annual Top 100 Global Innovators report identifies the world's most innovative organizations. These businesses have successfully developed valuable patented inventions that also have strong commercialization potential based on market reach and impact on other downstream inventions. The 2020 Top 100 Global Innovators Report was released on February 19, 2020.
↑"Security Compliance". Clarivate. Retrieved January 14, 2024. The scope of the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification is limited to the information security management system (ISMS) supporting the systems, products and services provided by the Clarivate Intellectual Property Group (IPG), Life Sciences & Healthcare (LS&H) Group, and Academic and Government (A&G) Group ...
12"Silverchair ScholarOne Acquisition Resources". Silverchair (Official website). Retrieved January 10, 2025. On November 12, 2024, Silverchair closed our acquisition of ScholarOne Manuscripts and ScholarOne Conferences
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