Nova Science Publishers
| Founded | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Frank H. Columbus |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Key people | Nadya S. Gotsiridze-Columbus (President); Donna Dennis (Vice-President) |
| Publication types | Academic journals, books, encyclopedias, handbooks |
| Nonfiction topics | Science and Technology, Medicine and Biology, Social Sciences |
| Fiction genres | Academic; STM |
| Imprints | NOVA, NOVA Biomedical, Novinka |
| Number of employees | 55 in-house employees |
| Official website |
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Nova Science Publishers is an academic publisher of books, encyclopedias, handbooks, e-books and journals, based in Hauppauge, New York.[1] While the firm publishes in several fields of academia, most of its publications cover fields of science and social science. As of November 2013, it listed 103 currently published journals.[2] It was founded in 1985 in New York by Frank Columbus. On his death in 2010, his wife Nadya Columbus became the CEO.[3]
Nova Science Publishers is included in the Book Citation Index.[4] In terms of number of books published from 2005 to 2012 period, Nova ranked 4th, among the top three in 8 of 14 scientific fields (engineering, clinical medicine, human biology, animal and plant biology, geosciences, social science medicine and health, chemistry, physics and astronomy),[5] and ranked as the 5th most prolific book publishers from 2009-2013, ranking 3rd in Engineering and Technology and 2nd in Science by numbers of books published.[6] However, Nova had the lowest citation impact among the five most prolific publishers in both fields.[6] In a 2011 report of twenty-one international social-science book publishers that determined penetration on international markets and mention of books in international science index systems such as Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Nova Science Publishers ranked 17th out of 21.[7]
Nova has been criticized for not always evaluating authors through the academic peer review process[8] and for republishing, at high prices, old public domain book chapters and freely-accessible government reports as if they were new.[8][9] These criticisms prompted librarian Jeffrey Beall to write that in his opinion Nova Science Publishers was at the "bottom-tier" of publishers.[10]
References
- ↑ "Company Overview of Nova Science Publishers, Inc.". Business Week. Retrieved 2012-08-08.
- ↑ Journal catalog page accessed November 17, 2013
- ↑ Merrick, Joav. "Editorial: A Tribute to Frank Columbus (1941–2010)". International Journal of Child Health and Human Development. 4 (2): 0. Retrieved 2012-08-31.
- ↑ "Master Book List". Book Citation Index. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
- ↑ Torres-Salinas, Daniel (2013). "Coverage, field specialization and impact of scientific publishers indexed in the 'Book Citation Index'". Online Information Review. 38 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1108/OIR-10-2012-0169.
- 1 2 Torres Salinas, Daniel; Robinson-Garcia, Nicolás; Jiménez-Contreras, Evaristo; Fuente-Gutiérrez, Enrique (2015). "The BiPublishers ranking: Main results and methodological problems when constructing rankings of academic publishers". Revista Española de Documentacion Cientifica. 38 (4): e111. doi:10.3989/redc.2015.4.1287b.
- ↑ Tausch, Arno (2011). "On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries". Journal of Scholarly Publishing. 42 (4): 476. doi:10.3138/jsp.42.4.476.
- 1 2 Phillips, Lara (17 September 2013). "A list of Print-on-demand publishers and self-publishing "Vanity presses" for librarians and faculty". University of the South Pacific. Retrieved 2013-11-17.
- ↑ Bade, David W. (24 September 2007). "The Content of Journals Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.". Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved 2013-11-17.
- ↑ Beall, Jeffrey. "Watch Out for Publishers with "Nova" in Their Name". Retrieved 27 May 2015.