Akadémiai Kiadó is Hungary's most important publisher of scientific and academic books and journals as well as the publisher of a wide variety of dictionaries in many languages. The company is majority-owned by the Amsterdam-based publishing conglomerate Wolters Kluwer and a minority is owned by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Akadémiai Kiadó has been a well-known brand name in the international science publishing field for many years. Its activity covers every major field of science and scholarship, and a major part of its output appears in foreign languages, mainly in English.