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Top 25 Academic publishers based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 178 academic publishers headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 2,554 professional contacts across them, including 592 with verified work emails. Roma is the largest hub.
This list covers academic publishers headquartered in Italy, 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.
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The 25 largest academic publishers based in Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 450 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dal 1859 pubblichiamo libri per la scuola e per la formazione universitaria, dizionari e libri di divulgazione: abbiamo un catalogo di opere e pubblichiamo circa cento testi…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editoriale Domus was founded in Milan by Gianni Mazzocchi in 1929.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La nostra storia ha inizio il 10 maggio 1901, quando con una lettera circolare Giovanni Laterza (1873-1943) annuncia la nascita della Casa Editrice Gius.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “G.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Società editrice il Mulino è stata costituita nel giugno del 1954 per iniziativa del gruppo promotore della rivista "il Mulino", che aveva iniziato le pubblicazioni a Bologna…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1958, Casalini Libri is a leading supplier of publications from across Europe and advanced library services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 35 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore is a well-known Italian scientific publishing company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Raffaello Cortina Editore è nata nel 1980 e si è imposta inizialmente sul mercato pubblicando testi legati a tematiche psicologiche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edimill è una società di servizi per l’editoria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Publishing house” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Associazione Italiana Editori è l’associazione di categoria, aderente a Confindustria, degli editori italiani – e di quelli stranieri attivi in Italia – di libri, riviste…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nata nel 1980 per iniziativa di Giovanni Carocci, la casa editrice si è ben presto affermata nel panorama italiano come una delle principali university press per il rigore delle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le nostre pubblicazioni riguardano principalmente le facoltà di Ingegneria, Medicina, Economia, Scienze Matematiche Chimico-Fisiche, Veterinaria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Tribuna opera nel settore dell'editoria professionale dal 1954 e fin dai primi anni sessanta si specializza nella pubblicazione di libri e riviste giuridiche.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Codice Edizioni si costituisce a Torino nel settembre 2003, come naturale prosecuzione del progetto elaborato attraverso la costituzione della società Codice.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Edi.Ermes è una casa editrice di Milano, specializzata in pubblicazioni medico-scientifiche a vari livelli, dai testi per studenti universitari a quelli per professionisti.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Medical and Scientific publisher” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Biblion Edizioni, casa editrice milanese specializzata in saggistica, grazie a comitati editoriali formati da studiosi di prestigio e a consolidati rapporti con importanti…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Da 85 anni costruiamo sapere per il vostro futuro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Casa editrice Ledizioni nasce nel 2007, ad opera di Eleonora Weihs e di Nicola e Lorenzo Cavalli, rispettivamente figlia e nipoti di Ingo Weihs, attore e colto intellettuale di…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ariesdue pubblica prodotti editoriali di successo, realizzando in questo modo la propria missione: offrire informazione e aggiornamento in campo odontoiatrico, medico e…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nuova Cultura è un editore universitario che ha l'obiettivo di ottimizzare la produzione scientifica in linea con disposizioni legislative definite dall’ANVUR.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “in riga è una casa editrice digitale per pubblicazioni tecniche legate al mondo universitario e professionale.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Clueb is an academic press strictly connected to the educational and research activities of the University of Bologna in Italy.” 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 Italy at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 178 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 Italy 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 Italy 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, 592 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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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 Italy?
RevenueBase identified 178 academic publishers headquartered in Italy 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?
Zanichelli Editore S.P.A, headquartered in Bologna, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most academic publishers?
Roma leads with 21 headquartered companies, followed by Milano (15) and Bologna (14).
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 592 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 178 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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