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As of 4 November 2026, 2,157 academic & professional publishing companies are based in France; 10 are hiring right now and Paris has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 2,157
- Hiring now
- 10 · 1 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Business press · 250
- Top city
- Paris · 214
- Parent market
- Media & content · 171,114
Academic & professional publishing in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Business press | 250 | 12% |
| Professional & reference publishers | 239 | 11% |
| Humanities social science journals | 224 | 10% |
| Other news & content portals | 214 | 10% |
| Clinical professional medical publishers | 211 | 10% |
| Health information portals | 169 | 8% |
| Education & career media | 158 | 7% |
| Science research communication media | 157 | 7% |
| Trade & industry press | 145 | 7% |
| Reference & manual sites | 133 | 6% |
| Book publishers | 122 | 6% |
| Medical biomedical journals | 106 | 5% |
| General interest magazines | 83 | 4% |
| Multidisciplinary oa publishers | 61 | 3% |
| Other academic & professional publishing | 58 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 1,662 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 241 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 203 · 7 |
| 51-200 employees | 40 · 3 |
| 201-500 employees | 5 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 5 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Paris | 214 | 10% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 148 | 7% |
| Roubaix | 79 | 4% |
| Paris 05 | 28 | 1% |
| San Francisco | 28 | 1% |
| Boulogne-Billancourt | 25 | 1% |
| Paris 15 | 24 | 1% |
| Paris 09 | 18 | 1% |
| Bordeaux | 17 | 1% |
| Paris 17 | 17 | 1% |
| Lyon | 15 | 1% |
| Paris 07 | 14 | 1% |
The biggest academic & professional publishing companies in France
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The stack of academic & professional publishing in France
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2,157 academic & professional publishing companies are based in France; 10 are hiring right now and Paris has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/france/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 France: questions
How many academic & professional publishing companies are there in France?
2,157 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 business press, professional & reference publishers, humanities social science journals. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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