Nova Science Publishers

Nova Science Publishing is one of the most prolific academic publishers in the world, representing a large business that specializes in providing scientific, technical, medical and social science content. This American publishing house was founded in 1985 by Frank Columbus, a seasoned expert and former editor-in-chief of major academic publishing institutions, and was based in Hauppauge, New York, as its headquarters for managing its intellectual and distribution operations.Following his death in 2010, the executive and intellectual management of the company was transferred to his wife and partner, Nadia Columbus, in cooperation with a team of specialized department managers, who maintained high production rates that made the house regularly top the lists of the publishing houses that issue the most books in the world, with a rate exceeding a thousand new titles annually.The Foundation's main focus is to provide scientific encyclopedias, advanced reference books, academic guides, and study handbooks, as well as managing and publishing more than one hundred specialized, peer-reviewed scientific journals and periodicals covering the fields of clinical medicine, engineering and technology, biology, chemistry, physics, and astronomy, as well as social policy and the humanities. Despite this abundant knowledge production and the regular inclusion of thousands of its books and magazines in major databases and indexesPrestigious international publications such as Scopus and the Web of Science, however, the publishing house’s business model raises widespread debate and controversy in Western academic circles and among university librarians. These criticisms center around the varying stringency of peer review and peer review standards for some publications, in addition to the repackaging and publishing of government reports or chapters that are freely available to the public and printed at very high prices. However, the organization has led a comprehensive and successful digital transformation movement to integrate digital object identifiers into all...Its publications, and making its huge catalog available through interactive e-book platforms to serve thousands of researchers and universities in various parts of the world.