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RELX: History, Art, Science & Companies

RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Its businesses provide scientific, technical and medical information and analytics; legal information and analytics; decision-making tools; and event organisation. It operates in 40 countries and serves customers in over 180…

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RELX topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art, Science and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around RELX.

Related topics
121
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
127
Extracted relationships
107
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
127

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 40 topics
History · 29 topics
Controversy · 27 topics
Operations and market segments · 19 topics
Corporate affairs · 3 topics
Governance · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
August 1993; 33 years ago (1993-08) (by merger)
Industry
Information and analytics
Headquarters
London, England, UK
Formerly
Reed Elsevier plc (1993–2015)
ISIN
GB00B2B0DG97
Key people
Paul Ashton Walker (chairperson) · Erik Engström (CEO) · Nick Luff (CFO)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Operations and market segments

Governance

Corporate affairs

Controversy

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How RELX connects Entity context

The extracted context around RELX shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, RELX → British, Ecommerce, Eurogamer, Gamer Network, IGN Entertainment, In, In February, It, New York Comic Con, PAX, Popverse, Reed Exhibitions, ReedPop, RELX's, Rock Paper Shotgun, RX, The Haul, VG247, Ziff Davis Another extracted example is RELX → An, Climate Rights Coalition, Concerned Scientists, Elsevier, February, Given, Global Responsibility, In, Scientists, The, The Guardian, UCS, Union. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

RELX

Top relations

related to Exhibitions and popular culture · 19
RELX → British, Ecommerce, Eurogamer, Gamer Network, IGN Entertainment, In, In February, It, New York Comic Con, PAX, Popverse, Reed Exhibitions, ReedPop, RELX's, Rock Paper Shotgun, RX, The Haul, VG247, Ziff Davis
related to Support for fossil fuel expansion · 13
RELX → An, Climate Rights Coalition, Concerned Scientists, Elsevier, February, Given, Global Responsibility, In, Scientists, The, The Guardian, UCS, Union
related to Legal · 11
RELX → Butterworths, France, In, JurisClasseur, LexisNexis, Many, RELX's, The LexisNexis, These, Tolley, UK
related to Social responsibility · 9
RELX → CEO, Global Leadership, In, Law, LexisNexis, Mike Walsh, Rule, The RELX Environmental Challenge, UN Foundation
related to history · 8
RELX → British, Elsevier, February, Netherlands-based, Previously, Reed Elsevier, Reed International, The
related to Scientific, Technical & Medical · 6
RELX → Elsevier, It, Medical, RELX's Scientific, ScienceDirect, Technical
Traded as · 5
RELX → AEX component, Euronext Amsterdam: REN, FTSE 100 component, LSE: REL, NYSE: RELX (ADR)
Subsidiaries · 4
RELX → Elsevier, LexisNexis, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, RX
related to Collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · 4
RELX → Customs Enforcement, Immigration, In November, LexisNexis
related to External links · 4
RELX → Amsterdam, Business, GoogleSEC, London

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

elsevier reed company business sold data publishing international lexisnexis trade scientific 2019 including information announced legal financial analytics london february

RELX relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 107 structured relationships around RELX. Examples in this analysis include RELX → Formerly → Reed Elsevier plc (1993–2015) and RELX → Founded → August 1993; 33 years ago (1993-08) (by merger). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
RELXFormerlyReed Elsevier plc (1993–2015)1.00infobox
RELXFoundedAugust 1993; 33 years ago (1993-08) (by merger)1.00infobox
RELXHeadquartersLondon, England, UK1.00infobox
RELXIndustryInformation and analytics1.00infobox
RELXISINGB00B2B0DG971.00infobox
RELXKey peoplePaul Ashton Walker (chairperson)1.00infobox
RELXKey peopleErik Engström (CEO)1.00infobox
RELXKey peopleNick Luff (CFO)1.00infobox
RELXNet income£2.078 billion (2025)1.00infobox
RELXNumber of employees36,000 (2026)1.00infobox
RELXOperating income£3.027 billion (2025)1.00infobox
RELXPredecessorElsevier1.00infobox
RELXPredecessorReed International PLC1.00infobox
RELXProductsInformation and data analytics, academic and business publishing, exhibitions1.00infobox
RELXRevenue£9.590 billion (2025)1.00infobox
RELXSubsidiariesElsevier1.00infobox
RELXSubsidiariesLexisNexis1.00infobox
RELXSubsidiariesRX1.00infobox
RELXSubsidiariesLexisNexis Risk Solutions1.00infobox
RELXTotal assets£14.757 billion (2025)1.00infobox
RELXTotal equity£2.390 billion (2025)1.00infobox
RELXTraded asLSE: REL1.00infobox
RELXTraded asFTSE 100 component1.00infobox
RELXTraded asEuronext Amsterdam: REN1.00infobox
RELXTraded asAEX component1.00infobox
RELXTraded asNYSE: RELX (ADR)1.00infobox
RELXTypePublic1.00infobox
RELXWebsitewww.relx.com1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around RELX bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Data, Founded and Years. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • elsevier
    • Reed
    • Scientific
    • Trade
    • Announced
    • International
    • Publishing
    • Publisher
    • Relx
    • Magazine
    • Including
    • Merger
    • Sold
  • video business
    • Plc
    • Data
    • Information
    • Lexisnexis
    • Trade
    • Company
    • Relx
    • Reed
    • Founded
    • London
    • Publisher
    • Legal
  • reed construction data
    • Trade
    • Publishing
    • Plc
    • Risk
    • Services
    • Business
    • Group
    • Sold
    • Scientific
    • Announced
    • Including
    • London
  • flight international
    • Reed
    • Scientific
    • Merger
    • Publishing
    • Publisher
    • Group
    • Risk
    • Magazine
    • Announced
    • Including
    • Trade
    • Data
  • international publishing corporation
    • Reed
    • Founded
    • Trade
    • Scientific
    • Merger
    • February
    • Publishing
    • Publisher
    • Group
    • Risk
    • Technical
    • Magazine
  • data broker
    • Plc
    • Risk
    • Services
    • Business
    • London
    • Products
    • Relx
    • Research
    • Financial
    • Information
    • Lexisnexis
    • International
  • british medical journal
    • Technical
    • Scientific
    • Merger
    • Plc
    • London
    • Publisher
    • Trade
    • Analytics
    • Information
    • Magazine
    • February
    • Company
  • amsterdam stock exchange
    • Plc
    • London
    • Merger
    • Data
    • British
    • Founded
    • Products
    • Publisher
    • Relx
    • Years
    • Analytics
    • Business

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For RELX, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects RELX with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
RELXOverview · splits 87 ⟂ 41
RELXHistory · splits 98 ⟂ 30
RELXControversy · splits 100 ⟂ 28
RELXOperations and market segments · splits 108 ⟂ 20
RELXGovernance · splits 124 ⟂ 4
RELXCorporate affairs · splits 124 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

RELX

Nodes128
Edges127
Triples107
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.015625
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around RELX to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art, Science & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — RELX · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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