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Top 25 Academic and scholarly publishers worldwide

RevenueBase identified 1,699 company matches for academic and scholarly publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 54,954 professional contacts across them, including 14,762 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers company matches for academic and scholarly publishers worldwide, found by RevenueBase SmartSearch using the meaning of business descriptions in its company graph at Exact. Ranked by professionals tracked, largest first. Rows show recorded descriptions where available, Exact search membership and the snapshot date. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for academic and scholarly publishers follow the table.

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1,699Companies
54,954Contacts tracked
14,762Verified emails
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The 25 largest academic and scholarly publishers worldwide

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 1,699 company matches for academic and scholarly publishers worldwide, ordered by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase, largest first. Recorded Sep 19, 2026. The RevenueBase SmartSearch column shows Exact match membership in this saved search. Click a contact count to view that company's people. Totals use company locations recorded by RevenueBase; the displayed preview is a smaller selection.
#CompanyRevenueBase SmartSearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Exact matchBerlin, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0007,110 contacts →

Exact match

“Be Part of Progress - together we bring greater understanding to the world Springer Nature is one of the leading publishers of research in the world.”

Recorded in the RevenueBase company graph · Sep 19, 2026 · View company records in RevenueBase
2Exact matchBasel, SwitzerlandHQ recorded Sep 19, 20265,001-10,0004,170 contacts →

Exact match

“Headquartered in Switzerland, MDPI is a fully open access publisher with a portfolio of more than 500 journals across all scientific disciplines.”

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3Exact matchMilton, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0003,064 contacts →

Exact match

“Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life.”

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4Exact matchLausanne, SwitzerlandHQ recorded Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,855 contacts →

Exact match

“Frontiers is a leading research publisher.”

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5Exact matchThousand Oaks, CA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 19, 20261,001-5,0002,435 contacts →

Exact match

“Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.”

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6Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026501-1,0001,037 contacts →

Exact match

“Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes, and is the originating publisher and custodian of…”

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7Exact matchBerlin, GermanyHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026501-1,000817 contacts →

Exact match

“De Gruyter Brill is an independent, family-owned academic publisher and a global leader in the humanities and beyond.”

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8Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500656 contacts →

Exact match

“BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.”

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9Exact matchBristol, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500524 contacts →

Exact match

“We work closely with researchers, librarians, and partners worldwide to produce academic journals, books and conference series.”

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10Exact matchOslo, NorwayHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500421 contacts →

Exact match

“Cappelen Damm har omlag nye utgivelser årlig.”

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11Exact matchRozzano, ItalyHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500373 contacts →

Exact match

“Editoriale Domus was founded in Milan by Gianni Mazzocchi in 1929.”

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12Exact matchHoboken, NJ, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500371 contacts →

Exact match

“Atypon develops publishing technologies that help deliver trusted content to the researchers and practitioners who need it most.”

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13Exact matchHershey, PA, United StatesHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026n/a315 contacts →

Exact match

“Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA with offices in New York, New York, USA, and in Beijing, China (IGI Science and Technology, Ltd.), IGI Global…”

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14Exact matchMalakoff, FranceHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200283 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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15Exact matchBasingstoke, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500218 contacts →

Exact match

“Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).”

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16Exact matchDublin, IrelandHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200198 contacts →

Exact match

“We support academic, STM, legal & professional publishers to digitally transform their organisations.”

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17Exact matchLondon, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200188 contacts →

Exact match

“Founded in 2004, IntechOpen, the world's leading publisher of Open Access books - Built by scientists, for scientists provides a collaborative environment for peer-reviewed…”

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18Exact matchBerlin, GermanyHQ recorded Sep 19, 20265,001-10,000163 contacts →

Exact match

“Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality…”

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19Exact matchBrugge, BelgiumHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200148 contacts →

Exact match

“Kennis delen en kennis opdoen.”

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20Exact matchPune, IndiaHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200139 contacts →

Exact match

“Our Company was incorporated in 2018 with a focus to provide software products to the scholarly and academic publishing industry.”

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21Exact matchOxford, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200137 contacts →

Exact match

“Ingenta is a world-leading provider of highly configurable SaaS solutions helping to advance research by building digital publishing platforms with subscription, hosting and…”

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22Exact matchParis, FranceHQ recorded Sep 19, 202611-50135 contacts →

Exact match

“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.”

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23Exact matchMacclesfield, United KingdomHQ recorded Sep 19, 202651-200116 contacts →

Exact match

“Dove Medical Press Ltd is an online open access academic publisher specialising in science, technology and especially medicine.”

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24Exact matchParis, FranceHQ recorded Sep 19, 2026201-500114 contacts →

Exact match

“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…”

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25Exact matchLouvain-la-neuve, BelgiumHQ recorded Sep 19, 202611-50113 contacts →

Exact match

“Avec un catalogue de près de titres, plus de 250 nouveautés publiées chaque année, et une équipe de 35 personnes localisée à Louvain-la-Neuve et à Paris, De Boeck Supérieur est…”

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Academic and scholarly publishers worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 19, 2026
26.9%Verified-email coverage
32.3Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
3.6%Largest-city concentration · London
Sep 19, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
805
11-50
548
51-200
222
201-500
57
501-1,000
16
1,001-5,000
22
5,001-10,000
10
10001+
7

Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.

How this list was built

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Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase SmartSearch, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
Coverage
Every country. Country and city lists for academic and scholarly publishers are linked below.
What qualifies
Company records worldwide whose business descriptions match “academic and scholarly publishers” by meaning at the Exact setting. Descriptions are compiled in the RevenueBase company graph from public websites, profiles and company information where available; they are not guaranteed quotations from the company's website.
RevenueBase SmartSearch
Describe a niche company in your own words to find businesses by meaning. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control the breadth of RevenueBase SmartSearch. This saved list uses Exact. Each row's Exact match badge shows inclusion in that search, not an individual score or a service-quality judgment.
Public preview
The public preview omits records without a verified work email. Dataset totals and geographic summaries describe the full matched records before these preview filters.
Match quality
RevenueBase's August 25, 2026 study assessed 4,198 description/company pairs across matching settings. The publisher reports 86% good or better at Exact. This evaluates the method across queries; it does not audit this individual list. Recorded company descriptions, where available, help you judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built and what the study measures.
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 displayed company carries at least one verified work email. RevenueBase tracks 14,762 professional contacts with verified work emails across the full matched dataset. 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.
Record context
Company records and descriptions can change. Check the company's website for its current services and locations.

Academic and scholarly publishers by location

9 lists · largest first

Every Academic and scholarly publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.

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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase SmartSearch?

RevenueBase SmartSearch finds niche companies by the meaning of their business descriptions in the RevenueBase company graph. Exact, Similar, Related and Broad control how closely companies must fit your description. This list uses Exact for “academic and scholarly publishers”; each Exact match badge shows search membership, not an individual similarity or quality score.

How many academic and scholarly publishers are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 1,699 company matches for academic and scholarly publishers worldwide as of September 2026, using the meaning of business descriptions at Exact. This is the recorded matched set in the RevenueBase company graph.

What is the largest company on this list?

Springer Nature tops the displayed preview by professional contacts tracked in RevenueBase. Recorded headquarters appear in the company rows.

Which country has the most academic and scholarly publishers?

The United States leads with 236 companies, followed by India (230) and the United Kingdom (128). Every academic and scholarly publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most academic and scholarly publishers?

London leads with 61 company records, followed by New Delhi (34) and Sao Paulo (29).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work limited free results with 500 credits to start. Upgrading provides access to the 14,762 professional contacts with verified work emails tracked across these 1,699 companies; direct dials are available where recorded.

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 SmartSearch, 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.