“Growing from our roots in publishing, we offer knowledge and valuable analytics that help our users spend more time making breakthroughs and drive societal progress,” for-profit journal giant Elsevier, by Twitter.

That will be those “roots in publishing” that earned Elsevier-owner RELX €1.2264bn in the six months to June 30, marginally down (€1.276bn) on 2020, for its scientific, technical and medical division.  STM is where the journals are.

Adjusted operating profit was €457m – that’s $A732m.