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Addressing the needs of India’s academic and healthcare communities through enablement, collaboration and innovation
Elsevier in India
Addressing the needs of India’s scholarly and healthcare communities through enablement engagement, collaboration and innovation.
Incorporated since 1996, Elsevier has been delivering verified research content, localized digital solutions and insightful analytics alongside its pursuit for scientific and healthcare excellence. We help academic, corporate and medical researchers in India gain access to and publish quality research, supporting the global amplification of their scientific achievements and contributing to the canon of scholarly articles. In healthcare, we enable medical, clinical and nursing students to transition from classroom settings to clinical environments, helping them improve learning and patient outcomes.
As an academic publisher, we’re proud of our pioneering efforts in helping to establish a robust foundation of scientific and medical research in India, contributing to its status as one of the world’s leading research nations. Having evolved from our roots in publishing, we’re now responding to the needs of India's new generation of academic and healthcare professionals through skills enablement, stakeholder engagement, strategic collaboration and with our extensive suite of AI-powered digital platforms and solutions.
Our presence
People
Diversity & inclusion, agility and innovation are at the core of Elsevier’s culture. Our inclusive mindset helps attract talented people with diverse backgrounds across all levels, creating value for the company and a dynamic work environment. More than 46% of our employees in India are women, and they come from diverse educational and professional backgrounds. Over the past three years, we have been expanding our India team: new hires now make up nearly 80% of our workforce of nearly 1,450 employees. We value the unique and diverse experiences and perspectives our employees bring, and we aim to create a psychologically safe environment to help foster their professional growth.
Technology
Our technology centers – staffed by nearly 250 technologists, engineers and data scientists – work alongside global innovation teams to support the company’s portfolio of products.
The Chennai technology center actively drives innovation through AI, machine learning and data analytics in areas such as content enrichment, semantic search, predictive analytics and user experience to enhance the research and publishing ecosystem.
The center in Bengalaru, on the other hand, optimizes data science, VR and AR to accelerate the development of Elsevier’s global health sciences and research-related solutions for customers across APAC & the Middle East.
Our operations centre in Chennai — with its 18-year presence — plays a significant role in managing Elsevier's vast content database, facilitating content digitization, indexing and organization, inventory management as well as logistics distribution of more than 90% of Elsevier’s print books and over 85% of our journal titles. The centre also provides customer support services to Elsevier's global customer base helping to manage inquiries, offer technical assistance and resolve product-related issues or concerns.
Our approach
Supporting the evolving needs of our stakeholder communities in India.
1. Skills enablement
National Capacity Building Program
In 2024, we entered a strategic collaboration with Ministry of Education to introduce National Capacity Building Program, a comprehensive, encompassing and structured approach to enable and empower our stakeholders along the research ecosystem through skillset building.
National Education Program (NEP)
When NEP 2020’s Equity and Inclusion initiativeopens in new tab/window was introduced, we conducted more than 450 [to update] capacity-building workshops for over 300,000 [to update] researchers across India. These include:
Forums and workshops
We designed a series of Engineering forums to equip engineering professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to be successful in their workplace as well as aid educators in building essential skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration teamwork and project management amongst engineering students.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, we responded to the urgent need in pivoting from a classroom environment to technology-assisted learning with our series of Better Together forums, which showcased how Elsevier’s portfolio of full-text journal articles and eBooks can be made accessible and available to India’s higher education institutions via online platforms for undisrupted and continuous learning.
We conducted targeted workshops to clarify common misconceptions and facilitate understanding on subjects such as open access, sustainable development and predatory publishing to help India’s academic community navigate emerging and complex topics associated with scholarly publishing.
We organized author, reviewer and editor workshops on aspects of scholarly publishing to support the work and aspirations of our editorial partners and researchers in India.
Education & development
We extended our expertise to support several Government of India’s Faculty Development Programs (FDPs) to ground researchers in the fundamentals of producing quality academic papers that are of global standard to accelerate their accessibility and visibility.
To promote high librarianship standards and improve the quality of library services, we introduced a comprehensive librarian development program for more than 1,000 library professionals across India in collaboration with library associations, with the objective of facilitating access to quality scholarly content for researchers at their institutions.
Through Elsevier’s online self-learning platform – Researcher Academyopens in new tab/window – researchers can access complimentary courses developed by global experts on topics that are essential to help them progress along their career journey.
Awards
In 2009, Elsevier instituted the annual NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards program in recognition of India’s outstanding young research talent through a strategic collaboration with the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI)opens in new tab/window. The awards help researchers building careers in academic research gain international exposure. To date, there have been more than 100 recipients of the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Awards.
2. Strategic collaboration
Advancing impactful and purposeful work
Facilitating dialogue
Elsevier released a report – Fostering collaboration: a study of scientific publications with authors in G20 countries – at a seminar jointly-organized with the Ministry of Education when India was Chair for the G20 Summit 2023, noting the nation’s milestone progress in overtaking the United Kingdom as the third largest global producer of research publications, behind China and the U.S.
Globalization has quickly created a network of collaborations between countries across the globe, particularly within the Asia Pacific region. This infographic looks at the emergence of research-intensive Asian nations with a focus on India.
India's Research Landscape: Output, Collaboration & Comparative Performance — Bibliometric Studies by Elsevier — Elsevier produced a data-based analytical report for India’s Department of Science and Technologyopens in new tab/window (DST) in 2016 to benchmark India’s research performance against other research-intensive comparator nations.
Making connections
First made available to the India research community, our exclusive “Researcher Discovery” feature on Elsevier’s Scopus platform enables researchers to effectively identify academic rising stars for potential collaborations and partnerships, key individuals as potential mentors and to expand their academic network as well as potential partners for grant applications.
Elsevier’s first University Grants Commissionopens in new tab/window (UGC) Dialogue in 2019 on Promotion of Good Publication Practices facilitated open discussions and consensus-building amongst regulators, funders, researchers, publishers, experts and indexing bodies on ways to advance and enable India’s growing academic publishing landscape.
We conduct webinars for researchers to better leverage our digital analytics platform, SciVal, to effectively identify peers from similar or complementary disciplines for potential collaboration.
We conduct webinars for institutions to maximize the potential of our research information management system, Pure, for the development of evidence-based strategies to increase funding, driving more international collaborations and gaining greater research visibility.
Responsible innovation
Supporting better decision-making and outcome through technology-driven solutions
News & announcements
TBC
Our commitment
Academic research
Over the past decade, the growth of India’s academic research has been on an upward trajectory averaging about 6% a year, outpacing the global output average of 4%. Taken in context with PM Modi’s Atmanirbhar Bharat of achieving greater self-reliance, the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020 (STIP 2020)opens in new tab/window was put forward for industry consultation on effective ways to raise India’s status as a key contributor to the world’s canon of scientific literature and innovations.
