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Embase provides unparalleled coverage of biomedical literature, including information not available in MEDLINE (see journal coverage and FAQ below). Regulatory bodies recognize Embase as a literature source for systematic literature reviews.
Embase has over 50 million records, an average of 8,500 new entries daily and more than 17 million records not in MEDLINE. Embase content is deeply indexed with Emtree, the Embase life science thesaurus, for more precise search results.
Embase journal coverage includes 8,597 active journals with 98% of MEDLINE journals covered plus an additional 3,516 journals unique to Embase.
Embase journal coverage includes representation from 95 countries with deep coverage of European journals.
Records from 1947 on are included in Embase Classic.
The Embase journal list is updated twice a year.
Embase provides fast access to the latest discoveries in conferences with 5.8 million conference abstracts from 18,098 conferences.
Embase conference coverage spans a variety of biomedical fields. Examples of conferences covered in Embase include the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, European Congress of Rheumatology, IFCC-EFLM EuroMedLab Congresses, World Transplant Congress, Digestive Disease Week®, ICOMS Singapore, ISN World Congress of Nephrology and thousands more.
Embase indexes ClinicalTrials.gov content with Emtree, so you can find the data you need with greater precision and speed. Embase includes 552,000+ clinical trials from around the world.
Embase provides access to 37 ClinicalTrials.gov fields, including detailed description, collaborators and investigators, inclusion and exclusion criteria, study type, keywords, intervention model and more.
To help you quickly determine availability and recency of ClinicalTrials.gov information, Embase shows whether study results are available and the most recent update date from ClinicalTrials.gov.
Embase provides fast access to new research from preprints within bioRxiv, medRxiv and SSRN. The preprint servers cover a variety of health, life sciences, clinical and medical areas:
bioRxiv content — preprints in the life sciences
medRxiv content — preprints in the medical, clinical and related health sciences
Social Science Research Network (SSRN) content, focusing on health and life sciences subject areas
Embase biomedical data is available as enriched, machine-readable data for AI and applied analytics projects.
Embase has flexible data packages, supported by a team of data experts, to help your projects succeed. Embase data includes synonyms and relevant terms for:
Generic drug names from the FDA/EMA
International nonproprietary names (INNs) for drugs and drug trade names
Diseases, organisms, biological functions, medical and biological parameters
Medical devices
Discover how the Medical Information team at Recordati paired an AI-powered workflow with trusted biomedical datasets from Embase.
Embase updates daily, adding more than 8,500 new records to its biomedical database every working day — that's over 2.9 million new records each year. More than 400,000 of the records added to Embase each year are conference abstracts.
Ahead of print articles are added to Embase as soon as they are available. Ahead of print articles are listed electronically before being assigned to a journal volume/issue.
PubMed consists of three biomedical and life sciences databases: MEDLINE, PMC and Bookshelf. MEDLINE is the life sciences journal citation and abstract database of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). MEDLINE content is indexed with the NLM's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus. Embase is also a life sciences journal citation and abstract database from Elsevier with more comprehensive content than MEDLINE. Embase has approximately 18 million more records than MEDLINE. Embase includes conferences, MEDLINE does not. Embase has more coverage of journals outside the US than MEDLINE, and Embase has approximately 70,000 more preferred terms indexed than MEDLINE. PMC is an archive of full-text life sciences and biomedical journal literature. Bookshelf is an archive of full-text books and other documents in life sciences and healthcare. Source: NLM website. About NLM's Literature Databases, accessed January 30, 2026.
To be considered for coverage in Embase, all journal titles must meet these minimum criteria:
Scientific quality and editorial coverage
Peer-reviewed content with a publicly available description of the peer review process
English language abstracts and titles
Diversity in geographical distribution of editors and authors
Clarity of abstracts
Quality of and conformity to the stated aims and scope of the journal
Readability of articles
Information about the journal
Published periodically with an ISSN
Available in electronic format
Publicly available publication ethics and publication malpractice statement
Clear and convincing editorial policy
Website accessible in English
Scope, subject and geographic coverage
The content of the recommended journal must be in the scope and subject areas covered by Embase for consideration. The submission form includes an Embase classification list from which covered subjects can be selected.
Title reevaluation
The quality of our content is paramount for Elsevier. In addition to journals undergoing a rigorous evaluation and selection processes prior to acceptance, they must also demonstrate the ability to maintain their quality year over year.
Elsevier runs an ongoing reevaluation program to identify outlier and underperforming journals.
Publishers or editors of a title can suggest a journal for coverage in Embase. Individual researchers and librarians can also suggest titles for Embase, but these suggestions need to be supported by the publisher and/or editor.
Before suggesting a journal title:
Check the current Embase journal title list to be sure it's not already indexed.
Carefully review the selection criteria above in the FAQ “How are journals evaluated for coverage in Embase?”
If your journal fulfills all the criteria, you can submit the title via the suggestion form.
Ready to suggest a title? Complete this form.
