Ranking List of Academic Book Publishers

This ranking list made reference to the rankings used by the Australian Political Studies Association

(APSA)

http://www.raw-rhodes.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/rqf-publishers-ranking-2007.pdf as the first point of internal ranking of academic publishers, supplemented by publisher rankings developed by the Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) http://www.sense.nl/uploads?&func=download&fileId=855 General Board, then the ranking system of the Centre for Resource Studies for Human Development (CERES) of the University of Utrecht http://ceres.fss.uu.nl/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,7/. There was a high level of consistency in the ranking of Book Publishers among the three systems. The higher rank for a Book Publisher is used.

Name of Publisher Ranking

Cambridge University Press A*

Chicago University Press A*

Columbia University Press A*

Harvard University Press A*

MIT Press A*

Oxford University Press/Clarendon (UK/US) A*

Princeton University Press A*

Stanford University Press A*

University of Calfornia Press A*

Yale University Press A*

Alfred A Knopf A

Allen & Unwin A

Cornell University Press A

Duke University Press A

Edward Elgar A

Elsevier Science Ltd A

IPA, Warsaw A

JHU Press, Baltimore (MD), USA A

John Hopkins University Press A

Kluwer, London A

Kluwer, The Hague A

Kluwer/Springer A

Manchester University Press A

Melbourne University Press A

New York University Press A

Oxford University Press (Australia) A

Palgrave MacMillan (UK & Australia, St Martins' Press in US) A

Penguin A

Politico's A

Polity Press A

Routledge (Taylor and Francis) A

Sage Publications A

Sage, London/New Delhi A

Science Publishers A

Univ of Pennsylvania Press A

University of Chicago Press A

University of Michigan Press A

University of Minnesota Press A

University of New South Wales Press A

University of Toronto Press A

WHO/EDM, Gen?ve A

Wiley-Blackwell A

AP, London A

Basic Books, New York A

Blackwell, Oxford A

Clarendon Press, Gloucestershire, UK A

CRC, Ghent, Belgium A

CRC, New York A

Harper & Row, New York A

John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, UK A

Pergamon Press, Oxford/Amsterdam A

Prentice Hall, Eaglewood Cliffs (NJ), USA A

Random House, New York A

Springer, London/Berlin A

Addison Wesley B

American Chemical Society (ACS) B

Arnold, London B

Ashgate B

Aspen B

Australian National University Press B

Beacon Press B

Berg, Oxford B

Black Inc Press B

Brill B

Bruylant B

Butterworth Heinemann B

Cameron May B

Continuum/Cassell B

Curzon Press B

Dekker, New York B

Duckworth B

Earthscan B

Edinburgh University Press B

EE, Cheltenham, UK B

FAO, Rome B

Federation Press B

Francis and Taylor B

Frank Cass B

Garland Science (part of Taylor and Francis) B

Garrisberg MacMillan B

Hale & Iremonger B

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

B

Harper Collins B

Hart B

Harwood Academic Publishers B

Heinemann B

Hodder B

Houghton Mifflin Company B

IIED, London B

Indiana University Press B

Island Press, Washington (DC), USA B

IU Press, Bloomington (IN), USA B

IWA publishers B

James Currey B

Jossey-Bass B

Karthala B

Kegan Paul International B

Kluwer Academic Publishers B

Kluwer, Amsterdam B

Kluwer Law International B

Longman B

Lynne Rienner B

M E Sharpe B

MacMillan, Windhoek, Namibia B

Macmillan/Palgrave Press B

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers B

Methuen B

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft B

NYU Press, New York B

OECD, Paris B

Open University Press (McGraw-Hill) B

Pearson Education Australia B

Pennsylvania State University Press B

Permanent Black/Orient Longman B

Pluto Press B

Praeger Publishers B

Psychology Press (part of Taylor and Francis) B

Queen's McGill Press B

Routledge B

Routledge Cavendish B

Routledge Curzon B

Routledge, London/New York B

Rowman and Littlefield B

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) B

Russell Sage Foundation B

Rutgers University Press B

Scribe Publications B

SETAC Press B

Singapore University Press B

St. Martin Press B

State University of New York Press B

Swets Blackwell B

T&T Clark B

Texas University Press B

Thomson – Sweet & Maxwell B

Transaction Publishers B

United Nations University Press B

University of Arizona Press, Arizona B

University of Hawaii Press B

University of Ottawa Press B

University of Pennsylvania Press B

University of Queensland Press B

University of Texas Press, Austin (TX), USA B

Verso B

VERSO B

VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften B

Wakefield Press B

Westview Press B

Westview Press, Boulder (CO), USA B

Wiley and Sons B

Wiley Publishing B

WorldBank, Washington (DC), USA B

WW Norton and Company B

Brasiliense, S?o Paulo, Brasil B

Greenwood Press, London B

JAI Press, Greenwich (CT), USA B

John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia B

Lexington Books, Lanham (MD), USA B

Manohar, New Delhi B

UNESCO, Paris B

University of Illinois Press, Champaign (IL), USA B

UW Press, Washington (DC), USA B

Zed Books, London B

Aalborg University Press C

Academic Press London C

Addis Ababa University C

Amsterdam University Press C

Arhus University Press C

Aristotle University C

Arizona University Press C

Asia Pacific Press C

Ateneo de Manila, University Press C

Atlas uitgeverij C

Backhuys Publications C

Bath University (DWP) C

Belhaven Press C

Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla C

Benjamins C

Berg Publishers C

Berghahn Books C

Boom Juridisch C

CABI - CAB International Publishing C

Carolina AP C

Cassell C

Catena Verlag C

Charles Scribner's Sons C

Chatto and Winden, UK C

Chinese University Press C

Civilizacao Brasileira C

CNRS C

Cranfield University C

Dar es Salaam University Press C

De Gruyter, Academic Press C

Deakin University C

Delft University Press C

Dutch University Press C

Ediciones Universidad de Navarra C

Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca C

Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica C

Editorial Universidad de la Republica C

Eindhoven University Press C

El Collegio de Mexico C

El Collegio Mexiquense, Toluca C

Eudeba, Universidad de Buenos Aires C

FGV (Fundacao Getulio Vargas) C

Flacso C

Fondo de Cultura Economica C

Gadjah Mada University Press C

Garland Publishers Inc.

C

Graham and Trotmann C

Greenleaf C

Hampton Press C

Hong Kong Baptist University C

Hurst C

IAHS – International Association of Hydrological Sciences Press C

Ian Randle Publishers C

IEP (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos) C

IEPRI C

Intermediate Technology Press C

Intermediate Technology Publications C

Jorge Zahar C

KNAW C

Königshausen & Neumann C

Left Coast Press Ltd.

C

Leiden University Press C

Leske & Budrich C

L'Harmattan C

Lit Verlag C

Marburg C

Marcel Dekker C

Marcial Pons C

Metzler Verlag C

Meyer and Meyer Sport C

Moi University Press C

Netherlands Geographical Studies C

NIAS Press C

Niemeyer Verlag C

Nijmegen University Press C

North Holland Publications C

Norton Publishing C

Nova Science Publications C

Nueva Sociedad C

Ohio State University Press C

Orstom C

Parthenon C

Peter Lang C

Pinter C

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and CIRAD, Bogota C

Poznan University of Economics C

Presse de l'Université de Lyon C

Presse de l'Université de Quebec C

Presses Universitaires de Namur C

Presses Universitaires de Nancy C

Pública/Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa C

Pustaka Pelajar C

R. Koppe C

Reimer Verlag C

RIVM/NOP C

Rodopi C

Roskilde University Press C

Rozenberg Publishers Amsterdam C

Schweizerbart, Bomtraeger and Cramer Science Publishers, Stuttgart C

Seoul University Press C

SicSat C

Siglo XXI Editores C

Stockholm University Press C

Suhrkamp Verlag C

Sussex University Press C

Syracuse University Press C

Tilburg University Press C

TM Editores C

Twente Universidad Press C

UAM C

Una Publications, Universidad de Buenos Aires C

UNAM C

Universidad Autonoma de Pueblo C

Universidad Complutense C

Universidad de Chile C

Universidad de Los Andes C

Universidad de Michoagan C

Universidad de Valencia C

Universidad Mayor de San Andres C

Universidad Nacional Autonomica de Nicaragua C

Universidad por La Paz C

Universidade Estadual de Campinas C

Universidat de Lleida C

Universitat Hamburg C

Universitat von Konstanz (UVK), Universitatsverlag, Konstanz GmbH C

Universität Wien C

Universitatsverlag Rasch C

Universiteit van de Nederlandse Antillen (UNA) C

University of Birmingham C

University of Bonn C

University of British Columbia (UBC) Press C

University of Canberra C

University of Cape town Press, SA C

University of Colombo C

University of Copenhagen Press C

University of Deusto C

University of Groningen C

University of Kwazulu Natal Press, Durban SA C

University of Leeds Press C

University of Manchester C

University of Massachusets Press C

University of Mexico Press C

University of San Catolina Press C

University of Stellenbosch C

University of Tennessee Press C

University of the Philippines Press C

University of the West Indies C

University of Western Cape C

University of Zimbabwe Press C

USP C

Utrecht University C

UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz C

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht C

Verlag Otto Harassowitz C

Vervuert C

Vervuert Iberoamericana C

Vossiuspers C

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) C

Vrije Universiteit Uitgeverij C

VU University Press C

VUB Press C

Wageningen Academic Publishers C

Wageningen University Press C

Witwatersrand UP, Johannesburg SA C

Woodhead Publishing Limited C

World Meteorological Association (WMO) C

Xuzhou City University of Mining Press C