Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 16 Journal publishers based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 65 journal publishers headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 7,964 professional contacts across them, including 3,285 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers journal publishers headquartered in Germany, 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 20, 2026.
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The 16 largest journal publishers based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft is one of the leading academic publishers in the fields of law, social sciences and the humanities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Erkenntnisse aus der Forschung verständlich in die Öffentlichkeit zu bringen, ist wichtigstes Ziel des Verlags Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Heidelberg.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mit 400 neuen Buchtiteln pro Jahr und 14 Fachzeitschriften zählt Kohlhammer zu den größten wissenschaftlichen Verlagshäusern im deutschsprachigen Raum.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Der Pflaum Verlag wurde 1919 durch Richard Pflaum in München gegründet und hat sich zum führenden Fachverlag für Naturheilkunde, Physiotherapie und Lichttechnik entwickelt.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We provide publishers and societies with workflows for transforming scholarly communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “wbv Publikation bietet ein attraktives Programm in den Bereichen Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaften, Pädagogik sowie Verwaltung & Recht.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Publikationen des 1981 gegründeten Presse Fachverlages sind auf die Themen Vertrieb, Verkauf und Marketing von Zeitungen, Zeitschriften und sogenannten Non-Press-Produkten…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Verlag Neuer Merkur GmbH is a publishing company based out of Behringstr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft ist ein namhafter Fachverlag für Medizin, Management und Gesellschaft.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir machen Fachzeitschriften Die Stein-Verlag Baden-Baden GmbH ist ein renommierter Fachverlag für die Roh- und Baustoffindustrie und überzeugt mit Fachwissen aus der Branche für…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Als einer der führenden zahnmedizinischen Fachverlage bieten wir mit unseren Zeitschriften, Büchern, Online-Dienstleistungen und Events eine aktuelle und ansprechende…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LUKON ist ein medizinischer Fachverlag.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die edition text + kritik ist ein Fachverlag für Literatur, Musik, Film und Kulturwissenschaften.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die mdm -MedienDiensteMedizin- Verlagsgesellschaft mbH mit Sitz in Langenfeld (Rheinland) verlegt medizinische Fachzeitschriften.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: journal 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 journal publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of journal publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name journal 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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Journal publishers based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 65 companies.
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 journal 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “journal 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 journal 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 journal publishers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 3,285 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 20, 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.
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 journal 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 journal publishers are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 65 journal publishers headquartered in Germany 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, headquartered in Heidelberg, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most journal publishers?
Berlin leads with 15 headquartered companies, followed by Bielefeld (5) and Heidelberg (5).
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 3,285 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 65 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 20, 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.