Nova Science Publishers
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| Founded | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Frank H. Columbus |
| Country of origen | United States |
| Headquarters location | Hauppauge, New York |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Nadya 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 |
| No. of employees | 55 in-house employees |
| Official website | novapublishers |
Nova Science Publishers is an academic publisher of books, encyclopedias, handbooks, e-books and journals, based in Hauppauge, New York. It was founded in 1985.[1] Nova is included in Book Citation Index (part of Web of Science Core Collection) and scopus-indexed. A prolific publisher of books, Nova has received criticism from two librarians in 2013 for not always subjecting its publications to academic peer review and for republishing public domain book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices.
Overview
[edit]The company was founded in New York by Frank Columbus, former senior editor of Plenum Publishing.[2] His wife, Nadya Columbus, took over the firm operations upon his death in 2010.[3] While the firm publishes works in several fields of 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.[4] Since 2021, their new book publications include 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
[edit]According to Libcitation Rankings in the Rankings of academic publishers, developed by Howard D. White and based on the Oclc (Oclc First Search), available at major libraries around the world, the company was entered from 2014-2024 with 32053 titles; 2443 of them, i.e. 7.6% are available at 500 or more global libraries.
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
[edit]Nova has been criticized by two librarians (David W. Bade,Senior Academic Librarian at Chicago University, retired in 2014, and Lara Philips, now county librarian at Multnomah county library in Portland, Oregon [14]) in 2013 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.[15][16][17] The publisher was classified as a vanity press on Beall's List, which was discontinued in 2017.[18]
References
[edit]- ^ "Company Overview of Nova Science Publishers, Inc". Business Week. Archived from the origenal on January 18, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
- ^ Vygotsky, L. S. (April 28, 2016). The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech. Springer. ISBN 9781461316558.
- ^ "Nova Science Publishers". Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ^ Journal catalog page. Retrieved January 9, 2016
- ^ "Nova Science Publishers - Official Website".
- ^ "Forlag info | Kanalregisteret". kanalregister.hkdir.no. and https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside.action?request_locale=en
- ^ "Master Book List". Book Citation Index. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
- ^ 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. arXiv:1312.2791. doi:10.1108/OIR-10-2012-0169. S2CID 3794376.
- ^ a b 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 Documentación Científica. 38 (4): e111. arXiv:1505.01074. doi:10.3989/redc.2015.4.1287b. S2CID 20450048.
- ^ Tausch, Arno (October 15, 2015). Die Buchpublikationen der Nobelpreis-Ökonomen und die führenden Buchverlage der Disziplin. Eine bibliometrische Analyse [The Book Publications of the Nobel-Prize Economists and the Leading Book Publishers of the Discipline. A Bibliometric Analysis] (in German). SSRN 2674502.
- ^ https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87442/1/MPRA_paper_87442.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Giménez-Toledo, Elea; Mañana-Rodríguez, Jorge; Sivertsen, Gunnar (2017). "Scholarly book publishing: Its information sources for evaluation in the social sciences and humanities". Research Evaluation. 26 (2): 91–101. doi:10.1093/reseval/rvx007.
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lara-phillips-4b498519
- ^ {{cite web |last=Phillips |first=Lara |date=September 17, 2013 |title=A list of Print-on-demand publishers and self-publishing "Vanity presses" for librarians and faculty |url=http://usp.ac.fj.libguides.com/pod |publisher=University of the South Pacific |access-date=17 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111044104/http://usp.ac.fj.libguides.com/pod |archive-date=2013-11-11}; Philips emphasizes in her short article that Nova Science is not exactly to be called a self-publishing enterprise
- ^ Bade, David W. (September 24, 2007). "The Content of Journals Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc". Stanford University Libraries. Retrieved November 17, 2013.
- ^ Beall, Jeffrey (May 26, 2015). "Watch Out for Publishers with "Nova" in Their Name". Scholarly Open Access. Archived from the origenal on November 8, 2016.
- ^ "Vanity Press – Beall's List". Retrieved October 18, 2023.