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As of 4 November 2026, 1,011 academic & professional publishing companies are based in Spain; 4 are hiring right now and Madrid has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 1,011
- Hiring now
- 4 · 0 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Humanities social science journals · 210
- Top city
- Madrid · 185
- Parent market
- Media & content · 50,787
Academic & professional publishing in Spain, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Humanities social science journals | 210 | 21% |
| Clinical professional medical publishers | 117 | 12% |
| Medical biomedical journals | 112 | 11% |
| Professional & reference publishers | 103 | 10% |
| Science research communication media | 90 | 9% |
| Other academic & professional publishing | 88 | 9% |
| Health information portals | 81 | 8% |
| Multidisciplinary oa publishers | 69 | 7% |
| Education & career media | 59 | 6% |
| Trade & industry press | 50 | 5% |
| Other news & content portals | 49 | 5% |
| General interest magazines | 48 | 5% |
| Reference & manual sites | 48 | 5% |
| Book publishers | 46 | 5% |
| Business press | 38 | 4% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 540 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 311 · 3 |
| 11-50 employees | 146 · 1 |
| 51-200 employees | 11 · 0 |
| 201-500 employees | 2 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Madrid | 185 | 18% |
| Barcelona | 75 | 7% |
| Valencia | 24 | 2% |
| Sevilla | 22 | 2% |
| Oviedo | 9 | 1% |
| A Coruña | 8 | 1% |
| Granada | 8 | 1% |
| Zaragoza | 8 | 1% |
| Malaga | 6 | 1% |
| Pamplona/Iruña | 6 | 1% |
| Las Rozas De Madrid | 5 | 0% |
| Murcia | 5 | 0% |
The biggest academic & professional publishing companies in Spain
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The stack of academic & professional publishing in Spain
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Other segments of media & content in Spain
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1,011 academic & professional publishing companies are based in Spain; 4 are hiring right now and Madrid has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/media_content/spain/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 Spain: questions
How many academic & professional publishing companies are there in Spain?
1,011 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 humanities social science journals, clinical professional medical publishers, medical biomedical journals. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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