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| founder = | founder = Frank H. Columbus
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| country = United States | country = United States
| headquarters = ] | headquarters = ]
| distribution = | distribution = Worldwide
| keypeople = Nadya S. Gotsiridze-Columbus, editor-in-chief | keypeople = Nadya Gotsiridze-Columbus (President); Donna Dennis (Vice-President)
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| topics = Science and technology, medicine and biology, social sciences
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| genre = | genre = Academic; STM
| imprints = | imprints = NOVA, NOVA Biomedical, Novinka
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'''Nova Science Publishers''' is an ] of books, encyclopedias, ]s, ]s and ], based in ]. It was founded in 1985.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=108755162 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118205213/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=108755162 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 18, 2013 |title=Company Overview of Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |work=] |access-date=8 August 2012}}</ref> 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 ] and for republishing ] book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices.
'''Nova Publishers''' is an ] of books and ]s based in ].<ref>

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==Overview==
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The company was founded in New York by Frank Columbus, former ] of ].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fjyVDAAAQBAJ&q=frank+columbus+plenum&pg=PR7 |title=The Collected Works of L. S. Vygotsky: Problems of General Psychology, Including the Volume Thinking and Speech |last=Vygotsky |first=L. S. |date=April 28, 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781461316558}}</ref> His wife, Nadya Columbus, took over the firm operations upon his death in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://cranburyinternational.com/pages/nova-science-publishers |title=Nova Science Publishers |website= |access-date=8 March 2018}}</ref> While the firm publishes works in several fields of ], most of its publications cover the fields of ], ], and ].
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{{asof|February 2018|post=,}} Nova listed 100 currently published journals.<ref name="NovaJCat">. Retrieved January 9, 2016</ref> Since 2021, their new book publications include ].<ref>{{cite news |title=Nova Science Publishers - Official Website |url=https://novapublishers.com/?s=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F&post_type=product}}</ref> As of 2022, Nova was approved in the Norwegian register for scientific journals, series and publishers, published by the ] .<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=12778|title=Forlag info &#124; Kanalregisteret|website=kanalregister.hkdir.no}} and https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside.action?request_locale=en</ref>
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==Rankings==
}}</ref> The firm publishes books and journals in science and the social sciences. As of January 2013, it listed 110 currently published journals.<ref name="NovaJCat"> accessed February 16, 2013</ref> It was founded in 1985 in New York by Frank Columbus. On his death in 2010 at age 69, his wife Nadya Columbus became the editor-in-chief.<ref>
Nova is included in the ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Master Book List |url=http://wokinfo.com/mbl/publishers/ |work=Book Citation Index |access-date=18 February 2013}}</ref> 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, ], animal and plant biology, ], social science medicine, health, chemistry, physics, and astronomy),<ref>
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{{Cite journal |last1=Torres-Salinas |first1=Daniel |s2cid=3794376 |year=2013 |title=Coverage, field specialization and impact of scientific publishers indexed in the 'Book Citation Index' |journal=Online Information Review |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1108/OIR-10-2012-0169 |arxiv=1312.2791}}</ref> 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.<ref name=TorresSalinas2015>{{cite journal |last1=Torres Salinas |first1=Daniel |first2=Nicolás |last2=Robinson-Garcia |first3=Evaristo |last3=Jiménez-Contreras |first4=Enrique |last4=Fuente-Gutiérrez |s2cid=20450048 |year=2015 |title=The BiPublishers ranking: Main results and methodological problems when constructing rankings of academic publishers |journal=Revista Española de Documentación Científica |doi=10.3989/redc.2015.4.1287b |volume=38 |issue=4 |pages=e111 |url=http://redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc/article/download/914/1311 |arxiv=1505.01074 }}</ref>
|last=Merrick |first=J
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|title=A Tribute to Frank Columbus (1941–2010)
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However, it had the lowest ] among the five most prolific publishers in both fields.<ref name=TorresSalinas2015/> 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.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=Die Buchpublikationen der Nobelpreis-Ökonomen und die führenden Buchverlage der Disziplin. Eine bibliometrische Analyse |last1=Tausch |first1=Arno |date=October 15, 2015 |language=de |trans-title=The Book Publications of the Nobel-Prize Economists and the Leading Book Publishers of the Discipline. A Bibliometric Analysis |ssrn=2674502}}</ref> In 2018, it was ranked #13 on the global main publishers list of political sciences during the last 5 years.<ref>https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87442/1/MPRA_paper_87442.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>
In an evaluation of twenty-one international social-science book publishers that attempted to determine the market penetration of publishers on international markets and the mentioning of their books in international science index systems such as ], Nova Publishers ranked 17th out of 21 publishers.<ref>
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| first1=A.
| year=2011
| title=On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries
| journal=]
| volume=42
| issue=4
| pages=476–513
| doi=10.3138/jsp.42.4.476
}}</ref>


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.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Tausch |first1=Arno |year=2011 |title=On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries |journal=] |volume=42 |issue=4 |page=476 |doi=10.3138/jsp.42.4.476}}</ref> A 2017 survey of national and international databases of scholarly book publishers, including the ], ], ], 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.<ref name="Giménez-Toledo">{{cite journal |title=Scholarly book publishing: Its information sources for evaluation in the social sciences and humanities |journal=Research Evaluation |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=91–101 |year=2017 |doi=10.1093/reseval/rvx007 |doi-access=free |last1=Giménez-Toledo |first1=Elea |last2=Mañana-Rodríguez |first2=Jorge |last3=Sivertsen |first3=Gunnar }}</ref>
The publisher has been criticized on account of some of their journals publishing issues which contained no original materials at all, but reprinted articles, reports, and book chapters that are in the ].<ref name="Republishing">
{{cite web
| last=Bade
| first=D.
| date=2007-08-24
| title=The Content of Journals Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
| url=https://www.stanford.edu/group/ic/cgi-bin/drupal/novascience
| publisher=]
| accessdate=2009-08-17
}}</ref>


==Criticism==
Nova Publishers is included in the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://wokinfo.com/mbl/publishers/ |title=Publishers - IP & Science - Thomson Reuters |publisher=] |work= |date=2013-01-08 |accessdate=2013-02-18}}</ref>
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.<ref name=Phillips>{{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=] |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}}</ref><ref name="Republishing">{{cite web |last=Bade |first=David W. |author-link=David W. Bade |date=September 24, 2007 |title=The Content of Journals Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. |url=http://eprints.rclis.org/10299/ |publisher=] |access-date=17 November 2013}}</ref><ref name="Scholarly Open Access">{{cite web |url=http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/05/26/watch-out-for-publishers-with-nova-in-their-name/ |title=Watch Out for Publishers with "Nova" in Their Name |date=May 26, 2015 |author=Beall, Jeffrey |publisher=Scholarly Open Access |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161108155756/https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/05/26/watch-out-for-publishers-with-nova-in-their-name/ |archive-date=November 8, 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The publisher was classified as a ] on ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Vanity Press – Beall's List |url=https://beallslist.net/vanity-press/ |access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>


== References == ==References==
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== External links == ==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.novapublishers.com/}} * {{Official website|http://www.novapublishers.com/}}


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American academic publishing company

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 publisher of books, encyclopedias, handbooks, e-books 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 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, most of its publications cover the fields of science, social science, and medicine.

As of February 2018, Nova listed 100 currently published journals. 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. In 2018, it was ranked #13 on the global main publishers list of political sciences during the last 5 years.

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. 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.

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. The publisher was classified as a vanity press on Beall's List.

References

  1. "Company Overview of Nova Science Publishers, Inc". Business Week. Archived from the original on January 18, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  2. 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.
  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. arXiv:1312.2791. doi:10.1108/OIR-10-2012-0169. S2CID 3794376.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. 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.
  11. https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87442/1/MPRA_paper_87442.pdf
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  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.

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