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Top 25 Academic publishers based in France
RevenueBase identified 195 academic publishers headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 5,038 professional contacts across them, including 781 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers academic publishers headquartered in France, 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 publishers based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,582 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Etudiant, a historically multimedia company, is the leading organisation in France in the field of higher education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 511 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editis est un leader français de l’édition qui fédère 55 maisons d'édition prestigieuses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 403 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Éditions Albin Michel sont une maison d’édition française fondée en 1900.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DUNOD, publishers of knowledges, is one of the most famous French publishing houses (for the Academy of Science in 1793) and publishes more than titles for the academics, the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créées en 1978, dans un village de la vallée des Baux, par Hubert Nyssen et sa femme, Christine Le Boeuf, bientôt rejoints par les autres fondateurs, Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créée en 2007 par François Guilmoto, Edilivre est une société d’édition qui a pour objectif de rendre l’édition plus accessible aux auteurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondées en 1973, les éditions Ellipses, ont connu une progression constante pour se situer aujourd'hui parmi les vingt premières maisons d'édition françaises indépendantes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 114 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Né du rapprochement des Éditions Belin et des Puf (les Presses universitaires de France), deux maisons emblématiques dans le domaine de l’éducation, de la connaissance certifiée…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editions Ouest-France - EDILARGE S.A-– Rennes (35) 1 500 titres, 2 auteurs, 150 nouveautés chaque année EDILARGE édite les livres sous la marque des Éditions Ouest-France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EDP Sciences was established in 1920 by a prestigious academic community of French learned societies seeking to inspire, innovate and inform others by sharing their knowledge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Groupe de presse de référence de l'actualité scientifique, Pour la Science édite deux magazines : Le mensuel Pour la Science est depuis plus de 30 ans un titre de référence de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “OpenEdition is an international digital publishing portal in the humanities and social sciences that brings together four platforms: OpenEdition Journals (e-journals), OpenEdition…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 2005 par des maisons d’édition francophones (De Boeck, La Découverte, Erès, Humensis, Gallimard), Cairn.info travaille aujourd'hui avec plus de 400 structures…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le CFC est l’organisme de gestion collective français qui gère les droits des auteurs et des éditeurs de la presse et du livre pour les reproductions et les rediffusions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a catalogue of 7 titles in print, PUF - France’s N°1 publisher of humanities and social science - has been disseminating knowledge authored by the most distinguished…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “publie depuis plus de 40 ans des ouvrages et revues qui contribuent, à leur niveau, aux avancées des recherches mais également à la formation continue en médecine et en sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maison d’édition spécialisée dans la diffusion du savoir et des connaissances en sciences humaines et en sciences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maison d'édition publiant des livres et revues en management, sur la gestion des entreprise et plus généralement sur les questions et enjeux de société.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Territorial édite des contenus (livres, revues, bases de données en ligne) destinés aux collectivités territoriales et aux établissements publics.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis 1874, les Éditions Honoré Champion sont spécialisées dans l’édition d’érudition en sciences humaines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondée en 1936, Citadelles & Mazenod est la maison d’édition de référence du livre d’art haut de gamme en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Après avoir travaillé 15 ans dans le milieu de l’édition au service de Maisons généralistes, Louis de Mareuil a créé en 2014 sa propre structure qu’il développe dans les domaines…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Éditions JFA Juristes & Fiscalistes Associés sont une maison d’édition indépendante créée à Paris à la fin de l’année 2018 par Thomas Jacquemont.” 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 publishers. 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 publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic publishers. 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 publishers based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 195 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 publishers, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “academic publishers”. 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 publishers), 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 publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 781 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
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
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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 publishers, 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 publishers are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 195 academic publishers headquartered in France 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?
L'etudiant, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most academic publishers?
Paris leads with 71 headquartered companies, followed by Caen (6) and Toulouse (4).
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 781 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 195 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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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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