Market View: Scientific, Technical & Medical

This report covers the drivers and the leading players in the Scientific, Technical & Medical (STM) Information and Solutions market, forecasting its growth through 2023. We recommend actions for companies to boost their value propositions, enhance their brands, and address new audiences.

Market Definition and Methodology

The STM segment includes the Scientific & Technical Information & Solutions and Medical Information and Solutions subsegments.

Outsell’s definition of Scientific & Technical Information & Solutions includes information providers that derive revenues from core information and services activities associated with scientific and technical research. This segment of the scholarly communications market includes scientific books, journals, major reference databases and tools, abstracting and indexing (A&I) databases, certification/testing, bibliometrics, altmetrics, analytics software and solutions, standards, research management software and platforms, engineering discovery, workflow and software solutions, funding analysis platforms, and continuing professional education (CPE).

The Medical Information and Solutions subsegment covers providers that derive revenues from core publishing activities related to basic medical research and clinician readiness, including medical books, journals and reference databases, medical education, physician certification/recertification software and solutions, and continuing medical education (CME).

Outsell bases the information in this report on a comprehensive and rigorous methodology we developed. This methodology provides financial estimates for the overall market and specific companies in the ecosystem. Outsell methodology starts with its growing database of over 10,000 global data and information companies, which we assign to all appropriate segments in which they operate.

Outsell uses all publicly available information and its own insight and research with the companies themselves to size each player in the space. We size public companies primarily on their reported results, though we also apply Outsell analysis to further segment and align their revenues according to Outsell’s industry segmentation. We size private companies using the best available information on each company, augmented by our own primary research.

For each market segment, we identify the largest players in the space (by revenue) in a table. Those companies that derive revenue from multiple segments have their revenue allocated by segment. We only identify the portion of a provider’s total revenue from the subject segment under that company for that segment.

Table of Contents

Why This Segment

Market Definition and Methodology

Market Drivers and Inhibitors

Market Size and Forecast for STM

Scientific and Technical Information and Solutions

Medical Information and Solutions15 to Watch

Implications

Essential Actions

Related Research

About the Author

About Outsell

List of Figures

Figure 1: Scientific and Technical Information and Solutions Revenue by Geographic Region, 2019

Figure 2: Medical Information and Solutions Revenue by Geographic Region, 2019

List of Tables

Table 1: Scientific, Technical & Medical Information and Solutions Market Size and Forecast ($billions)

Table 2: Scientific and Technical Information and Solutions Market Share by Region, 2018-2019. 8

Table 3: Scientific and Technical Information and Solutions Market Share by Format, 2018-2019. 9

Table 4: Top 20 Scientific and Technical Information and Solutions Players and Market Share, 2017-19. 10

Table 5: Medical Information and Solutions Market Share by Region, 2018-2019. 16

Table 6: Medical Information and Solutions Market Share by Format, 2018-2019. 17

Table 7: Top 20 Medical Information and Solutions Players and Market Share, 2017-19. 18