Nova Science Publishers is an
academic publisher of books, encyclopedias,
handbooks,
e-book
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s and
journals, based in
Hauppauge, New York. It was founded in 1985. 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 librarians for not always subjecting its publications to
academic peer review and for republishing
public domain
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book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices.
Overview
The company was founded in New York by Frank Columbus, former
senior editor of
Plenum Publishing. His wife, Nadya Columbus, took over the firm operations upon his death in 2010. While the firm publishes works in several fields of
academia
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, most of its publications cover the fields of
science
Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
,
social science
Social science (often rendered in the plural as the social sciences) is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among members within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the ...
, and
medicine
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.
Nova listed 100 currently published journals.
[Journal catalog page](_blank)
Retrieved January 9, 2016 Since 2021, their new book publications include
Digital Object Identifiers. 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 .
Rankings
Nova is included in the
Book Citation Index. 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), 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.
However, it had the lowest
citation impact among the five most prolific publishers in both fields.
[ 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.]Scopus
Scopus is a scientific abstract and citation database, launched by the academic publisher Elsevier as a competitor to older Web of Science in 2004. The ensuing competition between the two databases has been characterized as "intense" and is c ...
, CRIStin
CRIStin (Current Research Information System in Norway) is the national research information system of Norway, and is owned by the Royal Ministry of Education and Research. CRIStin documents all scholarly publications by Norwegian researchers, an ...
, 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.
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.
References
External links
* {{Official website, http://www.novapublishers.com/
Academic publishing companies
Publishing companies of the United States
1985 establishments in New York (state)
Publishing companies established in 1985
Companies based in New York City