To provide an organic electroluminescent element having high emission efficiency, and a display device or a lighting system equipped with it.

This organic electroluminescent element has one or more organic layers between a negative electrode and a positive electrode. The organic electroluminescent element is characterized by containing, in at least one of the organic layers, a multi-branched structure compound having a core compound being a luminescent compound and having a repeating unit expressed by general formula (1) at least in the second generation or in a subsequent generation. In a formula (1), Ar1is an arylene group or a heteroarylene group that may have a substituted group; and L1is any link selected from the following link group 1.

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