Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd

What Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd does

Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd. is an India-based journal and electronic publishing services company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Ghatkopar, India. The company operates as a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer N.V., a publicly traded Dutch information solutions and software company listed on Euronext Amsterdam (ticker: WKL) since 1996, with a corporate history dating to 1836. Wolters Kluwer serves professionals in five vertical segments: Healthcare, Tax & Accounting, Financial & Corporate Compliance, Legal & Regulatory, and Corporate Performance & ESG. Medknow's 51–100 employees support the parent's publishing operations, with no product-level detail disclosed at the Medknow entity level in the available source material.

Wolters Kluwer's underlying technology stack comprises AI-enabled expert solutions (Wolters Kluwer Expert AI, built on more than a decade of AI investment), cloud-based software suites (CCH Axcess, CCH Tagetik, Legisway, Kleos, Enablon, TeamMate), evidence-based clinical content platforms (UpToDate, Ovid), and digital legal and tax research databases (VitalLaw). Sub-brands relevant to Medknow's publishing domain include Ovid (medical research platform providing access to hundreds of leading journals and databases) and UpToDate (clinical decision support).

Wolters Kluwer generates revenue primarily through enterprise software subscriptions, content and research subscriptions, professional and compliance services (registered agent, entity management), and transaction-based fees (digital lending, business license research). Distribution occurs via direct enterprise field sales, inside sales, the eShop bookstore channel, self-serve product portals, and an expanded OpenAI collaboration integrating content into ChatGPT Enterprise. Specific revenue, pricing, and customer concentration data are not disclosed at the Medknow subsidiary level.

Name

Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd

Legal name

Wolters Kluwer N.V.

Website

https://medknow.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

1836

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd. is an India-based journal and electronic publishing services subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer N.V., founded in 1997, providing medical and scientific publishing operations within the parent's global Healthcare and information solutions portfolio.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic and Scientific Publishing Services

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (51312), Periodical Publishers (513120)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical, Clinical & Biomedical Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

Keywords

• Academic journal publishing
• Medical journal publishing
• Electronic publishing services
• Scholarly publishing platforms
• Open access publishing

Headquarters

HQ city

Ghatkopar

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscriptions: Annual and multi-year subscription licenses for software products including CCH Axcess, CCH Tagetik, Legisway, Kleos, Enablon, TeamMate, UpToDate, Ovid, and VitalLaw. Subscriptions are typically sold per seat or enterprise-wide with tiered access levels. This represents the primary recurring revenue stream.
2. Information Solutions and Content: Trusted information solutions, expert-curated content, and research databases sold through subscriptions and one-time licenses. Includes legal research, tax and accounting research, clinical decision support content, and regulatory compliance information. Revenue is generated through subscriptions, site licenses, and pay-per-access models.
3. Professional and Compliance Services: Registered agent services, entity management, business incorporation services, compliance program management, and lending compliance services. Revenue is generated through service fees, transaction fees, and managed services engagements.
4. eOriginal Digital Lending: Digital transaction management and electronic signature solutions for financial institutions, generating revenue through transaction-based fees and platform licensing.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd provides journal and electronic publishing services, primarily for medical and scientific scholarly journals. The company manages the end-to-end publishing workflow, including peer review coordination, production, online hosting, and digital distribution of journal content on behalf of medical associations and academic societies. Operating as a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer N.V., Medknow supports scholarly publishing for healthcare and scientific communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• UpToDate: Industry-leading clinical decision support solution under Wolters Kluwer Health division.
• Ovid
• CCH Axcess
• CCH ProSystem fx
• CT Corporation
• BizFilings
• eOriginal
• VitalLaw
• Legisway
• CCH Tagetik
• Enablon
• TeamMate

Products and services

• Journal Publishing Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 500,000 businesses served through BizFilings/CT Corporation entity formation services
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OpenAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationWolters Kluwer and OpenAI have expanded their enterprise AI collaboration to advance trusted expert AI solutions. Wolters Kluwer content and Expert AI capabilities are integrated into OpenAI's enterprise offerings, including ChatGPT Enterprise, enabling broad distribution of Wolters Kluwer's trusted expert-curated content through OpenAI's platform. This partnership combines deep domain expertise with advanced AI capabilities.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Dove Medical Press: Specialist medical journal publisher now part of Taylor & Francis, focused on open-access clinical and medical research titles. Highly comparable to Medknow's niche in clinical journal publishing.
• SAGE Publications: Independent academic publisher with a sizeable medical and clinical journal portfolio. Comparable in scale and model to Medknow, including society journal hosting and electronic publishing services.
• MDPI: Open-access STM publisher with a large portfolio of medical journals, headquartered in Basel with significant operations in China and southern Europe. Comparable to Medknow on journal hosting services, though differentiated by its open-access model.
• Karger Publishers: Family-owned medical and scientific publisher with a long-standing focus on clinical journals. Comparable to Medknow in its specialty medical journal publishing model, though with a stronger European society footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Elsevier: Major medical and scientific journal publisher and owner of ScienceDirect. Competes with Medknow for society journal hosting contracts and shares Wolters Kluwer's position as a top-tier STM platform.
• Taylor & Francis: Large academic publisher with hundreds of medical journals and a strong society publishing arm. Closely comparable to Medknow's society-journal publishing and electronic production services.
• Wiley: Diversified academic and medical publisher with significant journal hosting and society publishing services. Directly comparable to Medknow on journal production services and society partnership models.
• Springer Nature: One of the largest STM publishers globally with a deep portfolio of medical and scientific journals. Highly comparable to Medknow's journal publishing services for medical societies, but operates at materially larger scale.

Emerging players

• Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP): Open-access academic publisher with significant medical journal output and presence in emerging markets. Comparable to Medknow in journal-hosting services for the medical research community.
• MedCrave: Smaller medical and scientific open-access publisher serving the international research community. Overlaps with Medknow on niche medical journal publishing services.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@WoltersKluwerComms
• Facebookfacebook.com/wolterskluwer
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wolters-kluwer-medknow
• Instagraminstagram.com/_wolterskluwer

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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