🏢Publishers

Companies and organizations that distribute works

Publishers are companies and organizations that distribute journal articles, books, and theses. OpenAlex indexes about 10,000 publishers.

• Get a list of OpenAlex publishers: https://api.openalex.org/publishers

Our publisher data is closely tied to the publisher information in Wikidata. So the Canonical External ID for OpenAlex publishers is a Wikidata ID, and almost every publisher has one. Publishers are linked to sources through the host_organization field.

What's next

Learn more about what you can do with publishers:

• The Publisher object

• Get a single publisher

• Get lists of publishers

• Filter publishers

• Search publishers

• Group publishers