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Breeding, Marshall. ProQuest merges into Clarivate: an update on business integration. February 2022. Library Technology Newsletter. The acquisition of ProQuest by Clarivate rattled the library industry, in a bold move that further deepens consolidation. This $5.3 billion transaction brings ProQuest under the umbrella of Clarivate, a major force in the scholarly communications and intellectual property business sectors. Though not a primary publisher, Clarivate offers key content and analytics products including Web of Science, ScholarOne, Publons, InCites analytics, and Endnote. Clarivate competes with Elsevier and Digital Science as a workflow and analytics provider in the scholarly communications business ecosystem. By acquiring ProQuest, Clarivate extends its product strategy to include core library technologies as well as a major portfolio of database and content products. This acquisition moves ProQuest into the ranks of publicly traded companies. The merger was pitched to investors as saving $100 million in operational expenses across the two companies. Libraries naturally have an interest in seeing how these savings are accomplished.

Breeding, Marshall. Clarivate to Acquire ProQuest. July 2021. Smart Libraries Newsletter. The commercial landscape that includes the scholarly communications sector and library systems and services will take new form with the proposed acquisition of ProQuest by Clarivate, a large publicly traded company with diverse products and services spanning the scientific research and intellectual property sectors. This $5.3 billion transaction is the largest by far in the library sector.

Breeding, Marshall. Clarivate Analytics Acquires Kopernio. May 2018. Smart Libraries Newsletter. In recent years, several companies in the scholarly publishing industry have expanded their portfolios with new workflow and analytics products and services. In a move consistent with this trend, Clarivate Analytics has acquired Kopernio, a company that has created a web browser extension that facilitates access to scholarly articles. The acquisition of the product further extends the tools Clarivate Analytics offers in scholarly communications arena.

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December 15, 2025. Syndetics offers complimentary cover image service for libraries affected by Content Café closure. As of Monday, December 15th , Baker & Taylor will be closing their Content Café catalog enrichment serivce—which may leave libraries without cover images and other essential elements for their catalogs. In response to this urgent need for images, Syndetics is offering all Content Café subscribers free access to cover images through January 31st, 2026 to ensure your catalog images remain undisrupted and to maintain the look and feel that your patrons expect.

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December 15, 2025. Clarivate Library Innovation Awards launch to celebrate global library excellence. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced the launch of the inaugural Clarivate Library Innovation Awards, an annual program designed to recognize and support innovation by academic, national, and public libraries worldwide. In a time when libraries face unprecedented challenges - from evolving digital demands and budget constraints to shifting community needs - the Clarivate Library Innovation Awards will demonstrate the resilience, creativity, and impact of library professionals. The awards will celebrate inspiring projects, innovations, or transformational initiatives that have made a tangible impact on librarians, patrons, students, or communities.

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December 8, 2025. Clarivate A&G Software Group achieves TX-RAMP Level 2 certification for HEP. The Clarivate A&G Software Group announced that the Higher Education Platform cloud offering has officially achieved TX-RAMP Level 2 certification, reaffirming Clarivate's commitment to delivering secure, compliant, and trusted solutions for the public sector and higher education communities.

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December 8, 2025. ProQuest DEI Ebook Subscription is named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Each year, Choice — the trusted review publication of ACRL – curates its Outstanding Academic Titles list, highlighting the most significant and high-quality scholarly works, guiding academic librarians in building collections that support institutional goals and maximize impact. the ProQuest Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ebook Subscription, has been selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2025, a recognition that reflects our commitment to providing libraries with comprehensive, credible and evolving content.

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December 4, 2025. Clarivate and the Chinese Academy of Sciences release the 2025 Research Fronts Report. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences released the 2025 Research Fronts, an annual report that identifies key areas of research to watch. This report marks the 12th annual collaboration between the two organizations and was launched at a ceremony held in Beijing. The report identifies a total of 128 Research Fronts, which include 110 hot Fronts and 18 ‘emerging' Fronts. A hot Research Front represents an active area of study, while an emerging Research Front indicates a rapidly developing field in scientific research. The ability to identify these specialty areas of research provides a distinct advantage for administrators and policymakers who need to monitor, support, and advance research, often in the face of finite resources.

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December 4, 2025. Clarivate presents Cortellis Regulatory AI Assistant to cut through complexity in safety and compliance. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, has launched its Cortellis Regulatory Intelligence AI Assistant. Powered by agentic AI, the assistant introduces new capabilities that redefine how life sciences professionals access and apply regulatory information. Following a successful beta release earlier this year, the assistant is now available to all Cortellis Regulatory Intelligence customers. The latest release enhances usability, personalizes the user experience, and strengthens decision support, reflecting the company's commitment to applying artificial intelligence to real-world regulatory challenges.

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December 2, 2025. Clarivate reveals global shifts in research collaboration. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, published a new report from the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate, Research collaboration in a changing world. The report examines how global research collaboration is evolving in response to geopolitical tensions, pandemic disruptions, and strategic national investments.

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November 25, 2025. Clarivate launches Derwent Patent Monitor to enable fast and accurate decision-making with AI. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, announced the launch of Derwent Patent Monitor to streamline intellectual property and research and development collaborative patent reviews when determining patentability, assessing freedom to operate and evaluating opposition or assertion. Built with proprietary data, Derwent Patent Monitor offers AI-powered evaluation of potential threats helping to accelerate first-pass reviews (Threat Analysis) to surface the most critical risks for stakeholders. This feature empowers patent professionals to proceed quickly and with higher confidence.

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November 20, 2025. Research Offices of the Future: Key findings from the 2025 report. A new report from Research Professional News, an editorially independent part of Clarivate, explores the key priorities, challenges and drivers of change for academic research offices. Based on a global survey of more than 2,500 research office staff and researchers, the 2025 Research Offices of the Future report provides a comprehensive overview of the outlook for research offices and their relationships with researchers.

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November 12, 2025. Clarivate announces Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list. Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released the Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list. This annual list recognizes researchers whose contributions have demonstrated broad and significant influence in their fields. Analysts from the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate recognized 6,868 individuals with 7,131 awards from more than 1,300 institutions in 60 countries and regions. The rigorous evaluation and selection process draws on data from the Web of Science Core Collection, and uses quantitative metrics and qualitative analysis to identify individuals whose work has had a genuine, global influence on their fields. The list offers valuable insights into the global landscape of top research talent and identifies trends across countries, regions and institutions.

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Dec 22, 2021 Clarivate acquires Patient Connect
Clarivate has acquired Patient Connect, a provider of patient engagement solutions that enable the measurement of clinical and commercial outcomes and inform the advancement of healthcare. Patient Connect patient engagement solutions improve patient outcomes by delivering clinical messaging to physicians and pharmacists at the point of patient contact. Clinical messaging is delivered in physician and pharmacist workflows, to help guide patients to better understand their treatment and disease and empower them to make informed healthcare decisions. Patient Connect has a global reach of 834,000 physicians, 600,000 pharmacists and 1,000,000,000 patients, by point of contact.

May 16, 2021 Clarivate to acquire ProQuest
Clarivate announced a definitive agreement to acquire ProQuest, a leading global software, data and analytics provider to academic, research and national institutions, from Cambridge Information Group, a family-owned investment firm, and other partners including Atairos, for $5.3 billion, including refinancing of ProQuest debt. The consideration for the acquisition is approximately $4.0 billion in cash and $1.3 billion of equity. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals, is expected to close during the third quarter of 2021.

Nov 09, 2020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers acquires Techstreet from Clarivate
Clarivate and The American Society of Mechanical Engineers announced that the International Society of Interdisciplinary Engineers LLC, a new for-profit subsidiary of ASME, has acquired Techstreet.

Nov 2020 Kopernio relaunched as EndNote Click

Oct 30, 2020 Clarivate acquires Hanlim IPS
Clarivate announced that it has acquired South Korean Hanlim IPS. By combining strengths, Clarivate and Hanlim IPS will be able to provide a more comprehensive suite of intellectual property solutions to customers in South Korea and worldwide, covering the entire innovation and IP lifecycle – from scientific and academic research to IP portfolio management and protection.

Oct 26, 2020 Clarivate acquires IncoPat
Beijing Incopat Co., Ltd has joined Clarivate. By combining strengths, Clarivate and IncoPat will be able to provide a more comprehensive suite of intellectual property solutions to customers in China and worldwide, covering the entire innovation and IP lifecycle – from scientific and academic research to IP portfolio management and protection.

Oct 01, 2020 Clarivate completes acquisition of CPA Global
Clarivate announced the completion of the previously announced acquisition of CPA Global, creating an intellectual property powerhouse.

Mar 02, 2020 Clarivate Analytics closes acquisition of Decision Resources Group
Clarivate Analytics announced it has completed its acquisition of Decision Resources Group from Piramal Enterprises Limited. DRG is a premier provider of high-value data, analytics and insights products and services to the healthcare industry. DRG specializes in enabling the world's leading pharma, biotech and medical technology companies to achieve commercial success in complex health markets with the creation of effective patient-centric commercial strategies.

Dec 02, 2019 Clarivate Analytics acquires Darts-ip
Clarivate Analytics announced it has acquired Darts-ip, a leading provider of case law data and analytics for intellectual property professionals. Recently awarded best legal tech company by Trends Legal Awards in Belgium, Darts-ip's case law data and supporting analytics solutions will be offered alongside Clarivate's trusted patent, trademark and domain data and solutions, across Derwent, CompuMark and MarkMonitor.

Sep 09, 2019 Clarivate Analytics acquires SequenceBase
Clarivate Analytics announced that it has acquired the business of SequenceBase, a leader in providing patent sequence information and search technology to the biotech, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The acquisition will deliver an expanded solution to the fast-growing biologics market. It complements Derwent’s GENESEQ database and leading patent research platform Derwent Innovation, providing users with an intuitive solution to easily search, analyze and find context in sequence data within patents. GENESEQ is a proprietary database trusted by the largest players in biologics today. It is the only database to provide annotated analysis to help simplify the complexity of searching and identifying biological sequences (DNA, RNA and protein sequences) covered in patents from over 50 patent issuing authorities.

May 13, 2019 Clarivate Analytics becomes a public company through merger with Churchill Capital Corp
Clarivate Analytics, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, and Churchill Capital Corp, a publicly traded investment vehicle, announced the closing of their merger following the receipt of stockholder approval at Churchill's special meeting of stockholders. In connection with the consummation of the merger, the combined company was renamed Clarivate Analytics Plc, and anticipates that starting on May 14, 2019, its ordinary shares and warrants will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange and NYSE American under the symbols CCC and CCC WS, respectively.

Oct 30, 2018 Clarivate Analytics acquires TrademarkVision
Clarivate Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced the acquisition of Australian AI-technology company TrademarkVision. It joins Boston-based company CompuMark, the trademark clearance and protection partner for 9 out of 10 of the world's most valuable brands.

Apr 10, 2018 Clarivate Analytics acquires Kopernio
Clarivate Analytics announced the strategic acquisition of AI-technology startup Kopernio, to create the definitive publisher-neutral platform for research workflow and analysis for scientific researchers, publishers and institutions worldwide. Kopernio's vision is to legally provide one-click access to millions of journal articles and academic research papers across the globe, dramatically improving and facilitating access to scientific knowledge.

Jul 2017 Kopernio was founded by Jan Reichelt and Benjamin Kaube

Jun 01, 2017 Clarivate Analytics acquires Publons
Clarivate Analytics today announced the acquisition of Publons and its leading global platform for researchers to share, discuss and receive recognition for peer review and editing of academic research. The acquisition brings together the world's preeminent citation database and the world's largest researcher-facing peer-review data and recognition platform.

Oct 04, 2016 Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science becomes Clarivate Analytics
The previously announced sale of the Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business to Onex Corporation and Baring Private Equity Asia was completed . The company's many well‐known brands include Web of Science, Cortellis, Thomson Innovation, Derwent World Patents Index, Thomson CompuMark, MarkMonitor, Thomson IP Managerand Techstreet, among others. The newly independent company will be known as Clarivate Analytics, a name that speaks to accelerating the pace of innovation with the trusted insights and analytics it provides to customers. Clarivate Analytics enables users around the world to discover, protect and commercialize their ideas, faster.

Oct 2013 Thomson Reuters acquires Entagen, builds Cortellis data fusion technology
Opportunities created by Cortellis Data Fusion are a result of the recent acquisition by Thomson Reuters of Entagen, an industry-leader in providing semantic search/navigation software and custom development services to large pharma, biotech and laboratory automation companies.

2012 Publons founded by Andrew Preston and Daniel Johnston

2012 MarkMonitor purchased by Thomson Reuters

2011 Thomson Reuters launches Cortellis

Jul 01, 2008 ProQuest acquires Dialog from Thomson Reuters
ProQuest acquired Dialog from ThomsonReuters and named industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. Ms. BeDell will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn.

2008 Patient Connect founded by Dr.Grace Lomax and Zoe Barker

Mar 05, 2007 Thomson agrees to buy Reuters for $17.2 bln
Thomson Corp has agreed to buy Reuters Group for about 8.7 billion pounds ($17.20 billion) to create the world's biggest financial news and data company, the two firms said on Tuesday.

2006 Darts-IP founded by Jean-Jo Evrard

Jun 2005 SequenceBase founded by Martin Goffman

Apr 15, 1999 Institute for Scientific Information acquires Niles Software and EndNote
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) today announced the acquisition of Niles Software, Inc. and the formation of a new company, ISI ResearchSoft. Berkeley,California-based Niles Software, creators of the EndNote bibliographic management program, will combine forces with another ISI subsidiary, Research Information Systems

1999 MarkMonitor Inc. founded by Faisal Shah, Ed Priddy and James Hepworth

1997 ISI launches Web of Science

1996 Hanlim IPS was founded by Lim, Dong-Choon

1992 Institute for Scientific Information acquired by Thomson Scientific & Healthcare and named Thomson ISI

1990 Decision Resources Group founded by Samuel C. Fleming and Sarah Fuller
Decision Resources was founded in 1990 by Samuel C. Fleming, CEO, and Sarah W. Fuller, President.

1988 JPT holdings and Ted Cross acquire majority ownership of ISI
In 1988 Ted Cross and JPT holdings acquired over 50% of ISI’s shares.

1985 Niles Software Inc. founded by Richard Niles
In 1985, Dr. Richard Niles, then a Mathematician, noticed that his wife (a scientist herself) was spending long hours compiling bibliographies for different journal formats. He decided to create a tool that would help his wife and other researchers to manage references and compile bibliographies automatically. Niles Software Inc. was founded in 1985 with a mission to create innovative software that simplifies the research and writing needs of the academic, biomedical, and scientific communities.

1969 CPA Global Founded
Patent lawyers from different law firms in United Kingdom established CPA Global sharing the same objective, which is to provide intellectual property renewal services specializing in patents

1965 Science Citation Index, later known as Web of Science, launched by Eugene Garfield

1960 Eugene Garfield Associates Inc renamed to Institute for Scientific Information

1958 Institute for Scientific Information founded by Eugene Garfield
The company was originally known as Documation. Eugene Garfield starts ISI by borrowing $500 from Household Finance. Current Contents of Chemical, Pharmaco-Medical & Life Sciences is the sole product. It covers 200 journals in about 32 pages per issue.