The Qualitative Study of Academic Publishers is a report of the Spanish Association of Publishers. It was conducted by Elea Giménez and the Research Group on Academic Groups (ILIA) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). They collected the data by means of a survey to university professors from 2010 to 2016.

The publisher of the Universitat de València is the 3^rd publisher in Geography (behind Síntesis and Ariel); the 9^th in Linguistics, Literature and Philology; the 10^th in History and the 17^th in Archaeology, Prehistory and Economics.

The academic collection Historia is the 3^rd most prestigious in the field. It is ranked behind Historia of Macial Pons and Manuales de Arte of Cátedra). Both collections of the Universitat de València obtained the seal of quality CEA-APQ of UNE, ANECA and FECYT in the last edition. They have also appeared in the surveys made to university professors. Particularly, Aldea Global (published by the Universitat de València, UAB, UJI and Pompeu Fabra) was ranked in the 4^th position among the most prestigious collections on Communication.  Desarrollo Territorial was ranked in the 6^th position among the collections of Geography. In any case, these collections are the first university and institutional publishers.

The survey did not only ask for the most prestigious publishers of each discipline, but also for the publishers in which the interviewee had published their work. This distinction permitted to further analyse the data and answer to the reviews of the prestigious rankings, in which the best publishers appear.