Company lists · Data refreshed August 2026
Top 25 Academic publishing platforms worldwide
RevenueBase identified 432 academic publishing platforms worldwide as of August 2026 and tracks 24,389 professional contacts across them, including 6,159 with verified work emails and 34 with mobile numbers. India is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers academic publishing platforms 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 August 30, 2026. Country and city lists for academic publishing platforms 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 publishing platforms worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,435 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,418 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Research and Education are the cornerstones of progress, which is why we open doors to discovery for our communities, enabling millions of researchers, clinicians, educators &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 636 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hindawi is no longer in operation and the journals are now part of Wiley’s open access journal portfolio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 524 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We work closely with researchers, librarians, and partners worldwide to produce academic journals, books and conference series.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 371 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atypon develops publishing technologies that help deliver trusted content to the researchers and practitioners who need it most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 365 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ITHAKA's mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Silverchair is the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, serving our growing community through flexible technology and unparalleled…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “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…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 176 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of health profesionals, science and technology researchers, empowering them to make…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our Company was incorporated in 2018 with a focus to provide software products to the scholarly and academic publishing industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dove Medical Press Ltd is an online open access academic publisher specialising in science, technology and especially medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SSRN is an online repository of scholarly research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Empowering Knowledge STM Journals, a division of Consortium E-Learning Network Pvt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 89 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Exeter, we steadfastly believe that authors are the raison d’être for us and the publishing industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About Research Square Research Square Company, a five-time INC award winner, exists to make research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “J&J Editorial is an publishing services company dedicated to providing efficient and professional support to editorial offices, publishers, and societies.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Committed to open, trusted by researchers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) is committed to enhancing the reach, rigour, and relevance of science so that people can find, trust, and use it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cambridge Scholars Publishing is an independent academic publisher, committed to providing a forward-thinking publishing service that champions original thinking, whilst ensuring…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “HighWire is an industry leading global provider of digital publishing tools and platform solutions across all aspects of the publishing life cycle, including content management…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Aug 30, 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 publishing platforms. 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 publishing platforms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic publishing platforms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic publishing platforms. 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 publishing platforms worldwide at a glance
As of Aug 30, 2026Companies by employee count
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 publishing platforms, 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
- 4 countries, largest first: India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada. Country and city lists for academic publishing platforms are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “academic publishing platforms”. 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 publishing platforms), 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 publishing platforms, 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, 6,159 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 between August 30, 2026 and September 14, 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 publishing platforms by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Academic publishing platforms list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Academic publishing platforms based in India162
- Academic publishing platforms based in the United States155
- Academic publishing platforms based in the United Kingdom84
- Academic publishing platforms based in Canada31
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 publishing platforms, 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 publishing platforms are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 432 academic publishing platforms worldwide as of August 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?
Taylor & Francis Group, headquartered in Milton, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most academic publishing platforms?
India leads with 162 companies, followed by the United States (155) and the United Kingdom (84). Every academic publishing platforms list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most academic publishing platforms?
London leads with 50 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (17) and New York (16).
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 6,159 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 432 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled from the company graph between August 30, 2026 and September 14, 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.