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Taylor & Francis traces back to Richard Taylor's publishing company, founded in 1798. William Francis joined Taylor as a partner in 1852, and the firm took the name Taylor & Francis from that partnership.
Taylor & Francis publishes academic books and journals across subjects including law, medicine, engineering, and the social sciences. Its imprints include CRC Press, Routledge, F1000 Research, and Dovepress. A 2018 report counted more than 2,700 journals and about 7,000 new books published each year.
Taylor & Francis merged with Informa in 2004 to form a company called T&F Informa, which was later renamed Informa. Taylor & Francis Group now operates as the academic publishing division of Informa.
Taylor & Francis is headquartered at Milton Park in Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom. The group employs about 1,800 people across at least 18 offices worldwide, including locations in Stockholm, Singapore, and New York City.
Taylor & Francis was criticized in 2024 for selling access to its authors' research to Microsoft as part of an AI partnership. It did so without informing or seeking consent from those authors, and the Society of Authors raised concerns about publishers striking such deals without consulting creators.
Taylor & Francis charges $7,000 through its Accelerated Publication service, which lets a scientist speed up peer review. Using the service, a paper can be published in as few as three weeks.