Henk F. Moed to Join Elsevier as Senior Scientific Advisor

AMSTERDAM, December 14 - Elsevier, a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information products and services, today announced that Dr. Henk F. Moed will
join the company's academic and government products division as a Senior
Scientific Advisor, effective 1 February 2010. Dr. Moed is currently a senior
staff member with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in the
Department of Social Sciences at Leiden University.

Joining CWTS from when it opened in 1981, Dr. Moed supervised many large
projects commissioned and funded by external agencies, including the
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Ministry of the Flemish
Community, the European Commission and the Higher Education Funding Council
for England (HEFCE).

Over the course of his career, Dr. Moed has published more than 50
research articles in more than a dozen journals as well as Citation Analysis
in Research Evaluation, one of the few textbooks in the field of research
evaluation and citation-based indicators written for the broad scientific and
scholarly audience. He was a co-editor of the Handbook on Quantitative
Science and Technology Research (2004).

In 1999, he was the winner of the Derek de Solla Price Award, which is
periodically presented by the journal Scientometrics to scientists who have
made outstanding contributions to the fields of quantitative studies of
science. Recently, Dr. Moed served as program chair at the 10th International
Conference on Science and Technology Indicators and the 11th International
Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics
(ISSI).

At Elsevier, Dr. Moed will play an integral role in providing the most
current bibliometric insights as the organization develops performance and
planning solutions for the academic and government research strategy decision
makers. He will also be responsible for ensuring the reliability and
applicability of the company's bibliometric tools, metrics and techniques.

"We are proud to have Henk join us at Elsevier," said Niels Weertman,
Director of Product Management for Elsevier. "His deep knowledge of, and
extensive experience in, the field of bibliometrics and research performance
measurement will help us ensure that our current and future research
performance tools are based on appropriate and validated bibliometric
methodologies. His appointment is a testimony to the importance we place on
the scientific validity and robustness of our products."

About Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and
medical information products and services. The company works in partnership
with the global science and health communities to publish more than 2,000
journals, including The Lancet (www.thelancet.com) and Cell
(www.cell.com), and close to 20,000 book titles, including major
reference works from Mosby and Saunders. Elsevier's online solutions include
ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com), Scopus (www.scopus.com),
Reaxys (www.reaxys.com), MD Consult (www.mdconsult.com) and
Nursing Consult (www.nursingconsult.com), which enhance the
productivity of science and health professionals, and the SciVal suite
(www.scival.com) and MEDai's Pinpoint Review (www.medai.com),
which help research and health care institutions deliver better outcomes more
cost-effectively.

A global business headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier
(www.elsevier.com) employs 7,000 people worldwide. The company is part
of Reed Elsevier Group PLC (www.reedelsevier.com), a world-leading
publisher and information provider, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier
PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam),
REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

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