Routledge

For people named Routledge, see Routledge (surname).

Routledge
Parent companyTaylor & Francis
StatusActive
Founded1851; 173 years ago (1851)
FounderGeorge Routledge
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationMilton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK
DistributionWorld wide
Key peopleJeremy North
(MD Books)[1]
Publication typesBooks and academic journals
Nonfiction topicsHumanities, social science, behavioral science, education, law
Official websiteroutledge.com

Routledge (/ˈraʊtlɪdʒ/ ROWT-lij)[2] is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 140,000 titles.[3] Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences.[4][5]

In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million.[6] Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing" division.[7] Routledge is headquartered in the main T&F office in Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and also operates from T&F offices globally including in Philadelphia, Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore, and Beijing.[8]

  1. ^ "Managing Director, Humanities & Social Science Books, Taylor & Francis Group". Informa. Archived from the original on 14 February 2016. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. ^ Upton, Clive; Kretzschmar, William A. Jr. (2017). The Routledge Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 1164. ISBN 978-1-138-12566-7.
  3. ^ "About Us – Routledge". Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  4. ^ "Publishing With Us – Routledge". Taylor & Francis Group. 2016. Archived from the original on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Outsell HSS Market Size Share Forecast" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  6. ^ Cope 1998.
  7. ^ "Academic Publishing". Archived from the original on 10 September 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2016.
  8. ^ "T&F Group Global Offices". Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 22 December 2016.