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Top 25 Scholarly publishers worldwide

Name: Scholarly publishers worldwide
Creator: RevenueBase
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026 1,662 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 1,662 scholarly publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 56,245 professional contacts across them, including 15,662 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.

This list covers scholarly 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for scholarly 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.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 22, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

1,662Companies

56,245Contacts tracked

15,662Verified emails

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The 25 largest scholarly publishers worldwide

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 1,662 scholarly publishers worldwide, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 22, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to scholarly publishers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	Springer Nature	Partial evidence	Berlin, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	5,001-10,000	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 22, 2026
2	MDPI	Partial evidence	Basel, SwitzerlandHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	5,001-10,000	4,170 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Headquartered in Switzerland, MDPI is a fully open access publisher with a portfolio of more than 500 journals across all scientific disciplines.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
3	Taylor & Francis Group	Partial evidence	Milton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	3,064 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Taylor & Francis Group partners with researchers, scholarly societies, universities and libraries worldwide to bring knowledge to life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
4	Frontiers	Partial evidence	Lausanne, SwitzerlandHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,855 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Frontiers is a leading research publisher.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
5	SAGE	Partial evidence	Thousand Oaks, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	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 Sep 22, 2026
6	Ebsco Information Services	Indirect evidence	Ipswich, MA, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	1,001-5,000	2,332 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “At EBSCO Information Services, we hire great people and let them thrive.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
7	DE Gruyter Brill	Partial evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	501-1,000	817 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
8	Nature Portfolio	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	501-1,000	772 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Springer Nature publishes journals, databases and online products and services across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
9	BMC	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	656 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BMC is a pioneer of open access publishing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
10	Hindawi Publishing	Indirect evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	501-1,000	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 22, 2026
11	IOP Publishing	Indirect evidence	Bristol, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	524 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We work closely with researchers, librarians, and partners worldwide to produce academic journals, books and conference series.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
12	Atypon	Indirect evidence	Hoboken, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	371 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Atypon develops publishing technologies that help deliver trusted content to the researchers and practitioners who need it most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
13	IGI Global Scientific Publishing	Indirect evidence	Hershey, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	n/a	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 22, 2026
14	Bloomsbury USA	Indirect evidence	New York, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	303 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
15	DUNOD	Partial evidence	Malakoff, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	283 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
16	Palgrave Macmillan	Partial evidence	Basingstoke, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	218 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Palgrave Macmillan is a global academic and business publisher for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
17	Acta Scientific Publications Private Limited	Indirect evidence	Hyderabad, IndiaHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	214 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Acta Scientific is an Internationally peer-reviewed publishing group that is indulged in publishing original articles with an emphasis on latest research findings.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
18	Deanta	Partial evidence	Dublin, IrelandHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	198 contacts →
	Partial evidence “We support academic, STM, legal & professional publishers to digitally transform their organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
19	Silverchair	Strong evidence	Charlottesville, VA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	197 contacts →
	Strong 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 22, 2026
20	Intechopen	Partial evidence	London, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	188 contacts →
	Partial 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 22, 2026
21	Karger Publishers	Indirect evidence	Basel, SwitzerlandHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	201-500	183 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Connecting people and science since 1890, Karger provides scientists, healthcare professionals, patients, and the broader public with reliable and tailored information in Health…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
22	Springer	Indirect evidence	Berlin, GermanyHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	5,001-10,000	163 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
23	DIE Keure Professional	Indirect evidence	Brugge, BelgiumHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	148 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Kennis delen en kennis opdoen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
24	Ingenta	Indirect evidence	Oxford, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	51-200	137 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Ingenta is a world-leading provider of highly configurable SaaS solutions helping to advance research by building digital publishing platforms with subscription, hosting and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026
25	Éditions Ellipses	Indirect evidence	Paris, FranceHQ checked Sep 22, 2026	11-50	135 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “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.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026

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: scholarly 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 scholarly publishers.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of scholarly publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name scholarly 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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Scholarly publishers worldwide at a glance

As of Sep 22, 2026

27.8%Verified-email coverage

33.8Average contacts per company

11-50Median size (employees)

4.2%Largest-city concentration · London

Sep 22, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

783

11-50

528

51-200

225

201-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

10001+

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 scholarly 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 scholarly publishers are linked below.
What qualifies: Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “scholarly 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 scholarly 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 scholarly 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, 15,662 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 22, 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.

Scholarly publishers by location

9 lists · largest first

Every 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 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 scholarly 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 scholarly publishers are there worldwide?

RevenueBase identified 1,662 scholarly 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 scholarly publishers?

The United States leads with 262 companies, followed by India (216) and the United Kingdom (128). Every scholarly publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.

Which city has the most scholarly publishers?

London leads with 70 headquartered companies, followed by New Delhi (28) and Sao Paulo (25).

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 15,662 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,662 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 22, 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.