Academic & professional publishing in India_
As of 4 November 2026, 624 academic & professional publishing companies are based in India; 3 are hiring right now and Science College has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 624
- Hiring now
- 3 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Multidisciplinary oa publishers · 344
- Top city
- Science College · 17
- Parent market
- Media & content · 8,738
Academic & professional publishing in India, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Multidisciplinary oa publishers | 344 | 55% |
| Medical biomedical journals | 179 | 29% |
| Humanities social science journals | 161 | 26% |
| Stem science journals | 84 | 13% |
| Professional & reference publishers | 50 | 8% |
| Other academic & professional publishing | 47 | 8% |
| Clinical professional medical publishers | 33 | 5% |
| University & scholarly presses | 24 | 4% |
| Health information portals | 13 | 2% |
| Trade & industry press | 13 | 2% |
| Education & career media | 12 | 2% |
| Book publishers | 10 | 2% |
| Business press | 8 | 1% |
| General interest magazines | 6 | 1% |
| Online news portals | 6 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 92 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 79 · 0 |
| 11-50 employees | 409 · 3 |
| 51-200 employees | 36 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 5 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 2 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Science College | 17 | 3% |
| D. K. Mohan Garden | 12 | 2% |
| Civic Centre | 9 | 1% |
| Bengaluru | 8 | 1% |
| Delhi | 7 | 1% |
| Johannesburg | 7 | 1% |
| Rohini sec-11 | 7 | 1% |
| Hauz Khas | 6 | 1% |
| Hosūr | 6 | 1% |
| Chennai | 5 | 1% |
| Noida Sector 27 | 5 | 1% |
| Kandivali West | 4 | 1% |
The biggest academic & professional publishing companies in India
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The stack of academic & professional publishing in India
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Other segments of media & content in India
Media & content in India, the whole market →
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Visual art galleries & prints · 230 →
Writers & independent publishing · 223 →
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624 academic & professional publishing companies are based in India; 3 are hiring right now and Science College has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/india/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 India: questions
How many academic & professional publishing companies are there in India?
624 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 multidisciplinary oa publishers, medical biomedical journals, humanities social science journals. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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