Thomson Reuters is a publicly traded, corporation based in Toronto and New York, with extensive holdings in finance, news media, scientific publishing, and investment and trading technologies. The company was formed in 2008 with the acquisition by Toronto-based Thomson Corporation of London-based Reuters Group PLC. Thomson Reuters traces its origins to the establishment of Sweet & Maxwell legal publishing in London in 1799.
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Prior Names
Thomson Corporation
Reuters
Year established
2008
Still in Operation
Yes
Main Address
Thomson Reuters
3 Times Square
New York, NY 10036
United States
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CRL Analysis & Profile
History
Thomson Reuters traces its origins back to the establishment of the firm of Sweet & Maxwell legal publishing in London in 1799.
In 1985 Thomson acquired Gale.
In 1996 Thomson acquired West Publishing, the provider of legal publications.
In 2007 Thomson sold Thomson Learning, including its Gale division, to Apax Partners LLP (a private equity investment group) and Omer Capital Partners.
In 2008 The Thomson Corporation acquired the London-based Reuters Group PLC (established by Paul Julius Reuters in London in 1851) to form Thomson Reuters.
Financial Information
Thomson Reuters shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (symbol: TRI).
In 2013 TR reported total revenues of $12.5 billion and a 15.0% underlying operating profit margin.
Technical Information
The ISI Web of Knowledge platform provides a unique single, unified environment through which researchers can seamlessly access different types of information: journal literature, proceedings papers, patents, chemical reactions and compounds, as well as evaluated web content. In addition, the content found within the platform is multidisciplinary, ensuring that scholars are not restricted along subject-specific lines.
Information on ISI Web of Knowledge platform, provided by Thomson Reuters:
The ISI Web of Knowledge platform provides a single point of access to only that information relevant to the scholarly and research-oriented communities. Journals are thoroughly reviewed by editorial experts before being selected for inclusion in the database. Proceedings are selected with a focus on maintaining a multidisciplinary, international collection of over 2,500 conferences annually. Patent information is just as comprehensive, collected from 40 different patent-issuing authorities – over 1.5 million patents annually – in all technologies. Chemical information, chemical reactions and compounds reported in the most important 280 organic chemistry journals, must also meet a set of criteria before being selected for inclusion, these criteria having been determined by Thomson Reuters in conjunction with major pharmaceutical companies and universities.
Web of Science is updated with approximately 25,000 articles and 700,000 cited references added each week.
Science – covering over 6,200 international journals and highly cited book series in over 170 subject categories – available back to 1900.
Social Sciences – covering over 1,750 international journals and highly cited book series in 50 subject categories – available back to 1954.
Arts & Humanities – covering approximately 1,158 international journals and highly cited book series in over 25 subject categories – available back to 1975.
Sources
"Thomson Reuters" entry, Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson_Reuters)