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 librarians 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.
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| Founded | 1985 |
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| Founder | Frank H. Columbus |
| Country of origin | 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 |
Overview
editThe 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
editNova 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
editNova 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
edit- ^ "Company Overview of Nova Science Publishers, Inc". Business Week. Archived from the original 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 original on November 8, 2016.
- ^ "Vanity Press – Beall's List". Retrieved October 18, 2023.