Thomson Scientific was one of the six (later five)
strategic business units of
The Thomson Corporation, beginning in 2007, after being separated from Thomson Scientific & Healthcare. Following the merger of Thomson with
Reuters Group
Reuters Group plc was a British multinational media and financial information company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It was acquired by the Thomson Corporation in 2008, forming Thomson Reuters, and moved its head office to Toronto.
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to form
Thomson Reuters
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in 2008, it became the "Scientific" business unit of the new company. In 2009, the unit came together with the Healthcare division of Thomson Reuters to form the Healthcare & Science division. The healthcare business was sold in 2012 to become
Truven Health Analytics. The Science unit of Thomson Reuters provided information services for the academic, business, and R&D communities. It had headquarters in
Philadelphia
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, London, Singapore and Tokyo with about 2,400 staff in more than 20 countries. Its products were Aureka, Delphion, Cortellis,
Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI),
EndNote
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, Horizon Global, Horizon Sourcing, IDdb, IDRAC, IP Management Services,
ISI Web of Knowledge,
MicroPatent PatentWeb, Techstreet Industry Standards, ThomsonPharma, GeneGo, IDDB, Thomson Regulatory Solutions, and
Web of Science
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 proceedi ...
.
In late 2011, Thomson Reuters announced a new organizational structure, with one of its divisions being Intellectual Property & Science. This science unit of Thomson Reuters (known as IP & Science unit) was sold in 2016 to
Onex and
Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.5 billion. The newly independent company was named
Clarivate Analytics
Clarivate Plc is a British-American publicly traded analytics company that operates a collection of subscription-based services, in the areas of bibliometrics and scientometrics; business and market intelligence, and competitive profiling ...
.
See also
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Institute for Scientific Information
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) was an academic publishing service, founded by Eugene Garfield in Philadelphia in 1956. ISI offered scientometric and bibliographic database services. Its specialty was citation indexing and analysis, ...
References
Thomson Reuters
Clarivate
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