Academic & professional publishing in Australia
As of 5 November 2026, 367 academic & professional publishing companies are based in Australia; 1 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most.
As of 5 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 367
- Hiring now
- 1 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Health information portals · 45
- Top city
- Melbourne · 16
- Parent market
- Media & content · 29,552
Academic & professional publishing in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Health information portals | 45 | 12% |
| Professional & reference publishers | 45 | 12% |
| Trade & industry press | 45 | 12% |
| Clinical professional medical publishers | 34 | 9% |
| Multidisciplinary oa publishers | 34 | 9% |
| Humanities social science journals | 33 | 9% |
| Other news & content portals | 25 | 7% |
| Science research communication media | 24 | 7% |
| Business press | 22 | 6% |
| Education & career media | 22 | 6% |
| Medical biomedical journals | 19 | 5% |
| Other academic & professional publishing | 18 | 5% |
| Book publishers | 15 | 4% |
| General interest magazines | 15 | 4% |
| Reference & manual sites | 15 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 192 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 103 · 1 |
| 11-50 employees | 60 · 0 |
| 51-200 employees | 10 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 16 | 4% |
| Haymarket | 11 | 3% |
| Petrie Terrace | 7 | 2% |
| Sydney | 5 | 1% |
| Canberra | 3 | 1% |
| Collingwood | 3 | 1% |
| University Of Melbourne | 3 | 1% |
| Victoria | 3 | 1% |
| Auburn | 2 | 1% |
| Blackmans Bay | 2 | 1% |
| Brighton | 2 | 1% |
| Glebe | 2 | 1% |
The biggest academic & professional publishing companies in Australia
The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
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The stack of academic & professional publishing in Australia
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Other segments of media & content in Australia
Media & content in Australia, the whole market →
News & content portals · 12,703 →
User content aggregator platforms · 5,891 →
Visual art galleries & prints · 3,307 →
Travel blogs guides · 2,438 →
Books publishing & retail · 2,165 →
Writers & independent publishing · 1,803 →
Music & radio · 1,739 →
Creator channels & influencers · 1,117 →
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367 academic & professional publishing companies are based in Australia; 1 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 5 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/australia/academic_and_professional_publishing)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Academic & professional publishing in Australia: questions
How many academic & professional publishing companies are there in Australia?
367 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Media & content → Academic & professional publishing → leaf niches such as health information portals, professional & reference publishers, trade & industry press. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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