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Top 25 Academic editing companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 959 academic editing companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 2,457 professional contacts across them, including 289 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers academic editing companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest academic editing companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 220 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Proofed is the world’s leading editing agency, outfitting businesses with hand-picked teams of professional proofreaders and editors-for less than the cost of one in-house editor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AJE exists to make research communication faster, fairer and more useful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accdon, LLC is a leading author and research communications services company headquartered in the Boston area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ProofreadingServices.com is an award-winning proofreading and editing service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our team of caring and supportive editors strives to uphold the highest ethical standards in our work with students, faculty, and academic and career professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering writers and promoting ideas, Flatpage is an editorial agency and publishing house that helps you connect with audiences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “nSight®, formerly Editorial Services of New England (ESNE), was founded in 1982 to meet the need for exceptional writing and editing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Professional Proofreading Services ProofreadingPal is your source for professional business, resume, academic, student, essay, and book/manuscript proofreading services, 24 hours…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We specialize in providing you with timely, reliable, and high-quality scientific editing services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Editorial Department is one of publishing's oldest authors' services firms with a 44-year track record of helping good manuscripts become great books.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Froebe Group is a leading full-service provider to academic and scholarly publishers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publications Professionals LLC (Pubs Pros) is a small, woman-owned, veteran-owned editorial services company that takes pride in the caliber of its staff members and freelance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Your agency or marketing team is scrambling.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Open Boat Editing provides services to nonfiction and fiction authors from inception to publication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Ugly Duckling Presse is a writing and editing company based out of 106 Ferris St, Brooklyn, New York, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We're the internet's simple subscription content copy editing and proofreading service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We proofread and edit business documents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “editorr is a website and mobile application that offers on demand proofreading and editing services to registered users.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Math Made Visible LLC is an editorial services company based out of Austin Texas, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At The Military Editor® Agency, we believe every story matters-especially yours.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Good Comma pays dividends both outside and inside your organization: • Enhances your message to your current and potential audience-and if you’re a not-for-profit org, your…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Plant Editors editing company offers rapid, competitively priced editing of scientific documents at all stages of preparation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Vma Communications Inc is a Writing and Editing company located in 141 Spring St # A, Claremont, California, United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Verto Literary Group is a Boston-based startup founded in 2019 by Pulitzer Prize winner Gareth Cook.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EdiPro offers copyediting and proofreading services to businesses, scholars, educators, publishers, and individuals - clarifying their language and structuring their content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: academic editing companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names academic editing companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic editing companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic editing companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Academic editing companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 959 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among academic editing companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “academic editing companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names academic editing companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among academic editing companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 289 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Academic editing companies by metro
- Academic editing companies in New York34
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names academic editing companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many academic editing companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 959 academic editing companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Proofed, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most academic editing companies?
New York leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (19) and Portland (18).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 289 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 959 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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