Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
Research Solutions, Inc. is a technology-enabled information services company that operates in the scholarly research, academic publishing, and enterprise research management industries. The company provides cloud-based platforms and transactional services that help organizations discover, access, manage, and analyze scientific, technical, and medical (STM) content. Its core value proposition centers on simplifying and optimizing how enterprises procure and manage research literature while reducing costs and improving compliance with publisher licensing terms.
The company’s primary revenue drivers are subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms and transactional article delivery services. Research Solutions serves a global customer base that includes pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology firms, medical device manufacturers, academic institutions, government agencies, and corporate research organizations. Founded in 2006, the company initially focused on pay-per-view article delivery and document procurement, later evolving into a recurring-revenue SaaS business through platform development, acquisitions, and partnerships with academic publishers and content providers.
Business Operations
Research Solutions operates through two primary business segments: SaaS-based research platforms and transactional literature services. The SaaS segment includes enterprise software solutions that allow organizations to manage research workflows, control spending, analyze usage, and ensure copyright compliance. Revenue from this segment is primarily recurring and subscription-based. The transactional segment facilitates on-demand access to individual research articles from thousands of publishers, generating revenue through per-article fees and service charges.
The company conducts operations both domestically and internationally, with customers across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Its platforms integrate with publisher systems, internal enterprise tools, and third-party content providers. Research Solutions maintains partnerships with numerous academic publishers and content aggregators, and it operates through wholly owned subsidiaries that support software development, sales, and customer service functions. Data inconclusive based on available public sources regarding the full scope of all publisher-specific contractual arrangements.
Strategic Position & Investments
Research Solutions’ strategic direction emphasizes expanding its SaaS platform ecosystem, increasing recurring revenue, and deepening enterprise penetration within regulated and research-intensive industries. The company has pursued growth through targeted acquisitions that enhance analytics, content management, and research workflow capabilities, with scite being a notable acquisition that added AI-driven citation analysis and research validation tools to its portfolio.
The company continues to invest in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to improve research discovery, citation context, and decision support. These investments align with broader industry trends toward evidence-based research evaluation and automated literature intelligence. Research Solutions positions itself as an independent intermediary between publishers and research organizations, which it views as a strategic advantage in maintaining neutrality and broad content access.
Geographic Footprint
Research Solutions is headquartered in the United States, with a primary corporate presence in California. The company serves customers across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, reflecting the global nature of scientific research and enterprise R&D activity. Its platforms are designed for multinational organizations with distributed research teams and centralized procurement oversight.
International operations are supported through a combination of direct sales, regional teams, and global digital delivery of services. While the majority of revenue has historically been generated from U.S.-based customers, international markets represent a growing portion of the company’s customer base as global enterprises seek standardized research management solutions. Data inconclusive based on available public sources regarding revenue concentration by individual country.
Leadership & Governance
Research Solutions is led by an executive team with experience in enterprise software, information services, and research publishing markets. The leadership emphasizes disciplined capital allocation, recurring revenue growth, and product innovation aligned with customer research workflows.
Key executives include:
- William “Bill” McGinty – Chief Executive Officer
- Chris Donat – Chief Financial Officer
- John Schmitt – Chief Technology Officer
- Lisa K. Gillis – Chief Operating Officer
- Robert Negron – Chief Revenue Officer
The company operates under a publicly traded governance framework, with oversight provided by a board of directors responsible for strategic guidance, executive accountability, and shareholder interests.