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Top 25 Academic self publishing worldwide
RevenueBase identified 657 academic self publishing worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 18,618 professional contacts across them, including 4,797 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers academic self publishing 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 self publishing follow the table.
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The 25 largest academic self publishing worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 7,110 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 | 2,855 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Frontiers is a leading research publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 656 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SSRN is an online repository of scholarly research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Accdon, LLC is a leading author and research communications services company headquartered in the Boston area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 16 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Érudit is a non-profit multi-university consortium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our IOS Press account is closing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scholastica is an academic journal publishing technology provider with modern easy-to-integrate peer review, production, hosting, and discovery support solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Nestes 60 anos de existência, a Editora Blucher tem reafirmado constantemente o seu compromisso com a ciência e com a democratização do conhecimento.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide publishers and societies with workflows for transforming scholarly communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “MDPI is a leading global open access academic publishing company supporting academic communities since 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “PKP is a multi-university and community-based initiative developing free and open source software (#FOSS) and conducting research to improve the quality and reach of scholarly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “GRIN Publishing, located in Munich, Germany, has specialized since its foundation in 1998 in the publication of academic papers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We believe in the global impact of research from China.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In 2023, Scifiniti was established to be a frontrunner in scholarly publishing.” 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 self publishing. 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 self publishing.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of academic self publishing, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name academic self publishing. 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 self publishing 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 self publishing, 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 self publishing are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “academic self publishing”. 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 self publishing), 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 self publishing, 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, 4,797 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 self publishing by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Academic self publishing 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 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 self publishing, 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 self publishing are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 657 academic self publishing 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 self publishing?
The United States leads with 107 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (50). Every academic self publishing list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most academic self publishing?
London leads with 29 headquartered companies, followed by Hyderabad (10) and New York (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
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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.