Nova Science Publishers
| Founded | 1985 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Frank H. Columbus |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York, New York |
| Key people | Nadya S. 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 |
| Number of employees | 55 in-house employees |
| Official website | www |
Nova Science Publishers is an academic publisher of books, encyclopedias, handbooks, e-books and journals, based in Hauppauge, New York.[1] While the firm publishes in several fields of academia, most of its publications cover fields of science and social science. As of November 2013, it listed 103 currently published journals.[2] 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.[3]
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 Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Nova Science Publishers ranked 17th out of 21 publishers.[4] Nova Science Publishers is included in the Book Citation Index.[5]
Library professionals have warned that Nova's books "do not go through a standard academic peer review process despite their academic focus."[6] Nova has also been criticized for republishing old public domain book chapters and freely-accessible government reports, while providing insufficient indication of the nature of the content, making them seem as though they are new standalone journal articles or monographs.[6][7]
Librarian Jeffrey Beall, maintainer of Beall's list of Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers[8] has written that Nova Science Publishers is "not a predatory publisher, but it is a bottom-tier one".[9]
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