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Top 25 Academic book publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,925 academic book publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 58,515 professional contacts across them, including 13,864 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Sao Paulo the largest hub.
This list covers academic book publishers worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for academic book publishers follow the table.
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 book publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “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.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,477 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,064 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 2,435 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,398 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Berdiri pada 30 April 1952, Erlangga Group pada mulanya hanya menerbitkan buku-buku pelajaran saja.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,037 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 817 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “De Gruyter Brill is an independent, family-owned academic publisher and a global leader in the humanities and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Orient BlackSwan (formerly Orient Longman), is an Indian publishing house headquartered in Hyderabad, Telangana.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “I mere end 250 år har Gyldendal været med til at forme fortællingen om Danmark.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 421 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cappelen Damm har omlag nye utgivelser årlig.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 410 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A Editora Saraiva é líder no segmento de Livros Jurídicos e uma das maiores no mercado de Livros Didáticos e Paradidáticos para Ensinos Fundamental e Médio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 388 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Né des rêves et des ambitions de deux instituteurs, Larousse est aujourd’hui mondialement connu.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We publish for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 258 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondées par Alexandre Hatier à la fin du XIXe siècle, les Éditions Hatier éditent dès 1913 le premier Bescherelle.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 249 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A history stretching back over 200 years, HarperCollins is the second largest consumer book publisher in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 248 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Springer Publishing is an award-winning publisher of healthcare and behavioral sciences content, featuring books, apps, journals, and digital products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 239 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Aschehoug forlag gir lesere, lærere og elever litterære opplevelser og kunnskap gjennom bøkene og læremidlene våre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Liber är ett av Sveriges ledande utbildningsföretag.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Missão: Divulgar a informação e o conhecimento pelos meios de comunicação social.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 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. | |||||
| 25 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About Studentlitteratur Studentlitteratur AB is Sweden's leading publisher of qualified tuition and non-fiction.” 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 book 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 book publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic book publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic book 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 book publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 book 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for academic book publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “academic book 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 book 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 book publishers, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 13,864 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.
Academic book publishers by location
12 lists · largest firstEvery Academic book publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Academic book publishers based in the United States219
- Academic book publishers based in India172
- Academic book publishers based in Brazil152
- Academic book publishers based in the United Kingdom114
- Academic book publishers based in France110
- Academic book publishers based in Italy105
- Academic book publishers based in Germany99
- Academic book publishers based in Spain71
- Academic book publishers based in the Netherlands43
- Academic book publishers based in Canada38
- Academic book publishers based in Belgium27
Cities
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 book 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 book publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,925 academic book publishers worldwide 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?
Springer Nature, headquartered in Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most academic book publishers?
The United States leads with 219 companies, followed by India (172) and Brazil (152). Every academic book publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most academic book publishers?
Sao Paulo leads with 60 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (54) and London (46).
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 13,864 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,925 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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About this data
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.