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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 Medicine & Health, SNOVA |
| No. of employees | 55 in-house employees |
| Official website | novapublishers |
Nova Science Publishers is anacademic publisher of books, encyclopedias,handbooks,e-books andjournals, based inHauppauge, 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 toacademic peer review and for republishingpublic domain book chapters and freely-accessible government publications at high prices.
The company was founded in New York by Frank Columbus, formersenior editor ofPlenum 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 ofscience,social science, andmedicine.
As of February 2018,[update] Nova listed 100 currently published journals.[4] Since 2021, their new book publications includeDigital Object Identifiers.[5] As of 2022, Nova was approved in the Norwegian register for scientific journals, series and publishers, published by theNorwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills.[6]
Nova is included in theBook 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 lowestcitation 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 theBook 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]
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.[14][15][16] The publisher was classified as avanity press onBeall's List.[17]