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Nova Science Publishers
Founded1985
FounderFrank H. Columbus
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationHauppauge, New York
DistributionWorldwide
Key peopleNadya Gotsiridze-Columbus (President); Donna Dennis (Vice-President)
Publication typesAcademic journals, books, encyclopedias, handbooks
Nonfiction topicsScience and technology, medicine and biology, social sciences
Fiction genresAcademic; STM
ImprintsNOVA, NOVA Biomedical, Novinka
No. of employees55 in-house employees
Official websitenovapublishers.com

Nova Science Publishers is an

academic peer review and for republishing public domain
book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices.

Overview

The company was founded in New York by Frank Columbus, former

academia, most of its publications cover the fields of science, social science, and medicine
.

As of February 2018,[update] Nova listed 100 currently published journals.

Digital Object Identifiers.[5] As of 2022, Nova was approved in the Norwegian register for scientific journals, series and publishers, published by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills .[6]

Rankings

Nova is included in the Book Citation Index.[7] In terms of number of books published from 2005 to 2012, Nova ranked 4th. They ranked in the top three in 8 of 14 scientific fields including engineering, clinical medicine, human biology, animal and plant biology, geosciences, social science medicine, health, chemistry, physics, and astronomy),[8] and ranked as the 5th most prolific book publisher from 2009-2013, ranking 3rd in Engineering and Technology and 2nd in Science by numbers of books published.[9]

However, it had the lowest citation impact among the five most prolific publishers in both fields.[9] In a 2017 ranking study of book publishers, Nova was ranked high on number of books published, but low on number of citations per book.[10] In 2018, it was ranked #13 on the global main publishers list of political sciences during the last 5 years.[11]

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, Nova was ranked #17.[12] A 2017 survey of national and international databases of scholarly book publishers, including the Book Citation Index, Scopus, CRIStin, JUFO, VIRTA, and SPI, identified Nova as one of a "core of publishers that are indexed in all five" of the information systems surveyed. This "core" contained 46 out of the 3,765 publishers identified.[13]

Criticism

Nova has been criticized by librarians for not always evaluating authors through the academic peer review process and for republishing old public domain book chapters and freely-accessible government reports at high prices.[14][15][16] The publisher is classified as a vanity press on Beall's List.[17]

References

  1. Business Week. Archived from the original
    on January 18, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  2. ISBN 9781461316558
    .
  3. ^ "Nova Science Publishers". Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  4. ^ Journal catalog page. Retrieved January 9, 2016
  5. ^ "Nova Science Publishers - Official Website".
  6. ^ "Forlag info | Kanalregisteret". kanalregister.hkdir.no. and https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside.action?request_locale=en
  7. ^ "Master Book List". Book Citation Index. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  8. ^ 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.
    S2CID 3794376
    .
  9. ^
    S2CID 20450048
    .
  10. SSRN 2674502
    .
  11. ^ https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87442/1/MPRA_paper_87442.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  12. doi:10.3138/jsp.42.4.476
    .
  13. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvx007
    .
  14. ^ Phillips, Lara (September 17, 2013). "A list of Print-on-demand publishers and self-publishing "Vanity presses" for librarians and faculty". University of the South Pacific. Archived from the original on November 11, 2013. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  15. ^ Bade, David W. (September 24, 2007). "The Content of Journals Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc". Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
  16. ^ Beall, Jeffrey (May 26, 2015). "Watch Out for Publishers with "Nova" in Their Name". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the original on November 8, 2016.
  17. ^ "Vanity Press – Beall's List". Retrieved October 18, 2023.

External links

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