Had someone previously published a book or a chapter with Nova publisher?
Please let us know about your experience with them.
Thank you
A scientific answer to the question about the quality of Nova Science Publishers can be found in several published bibliometric essays of mine, most recently in
Tausch, Arno, The Market Power of Global Scientific Publishing Companies in the Age of Globalization: An Analysis Based on the OCLC Worldcat (June 16, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3197632 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3197632 (forthcoming in the Journal of Globalization Studies).
This article evaluates tendencies and trends of the global academic publishing industry, vital for any reasonable long-term publication strategy planning in research. Such analyses are made possible today by the OCLC Worldcat. Our multivariate attempt, combining Worldcat global library circulation figures of publisher companies with results from earlier publisher ranking studies, is based on factor analysis of 32 variables, and our promax factor analytical model establishes that there are eight factors of global publisher impact, explaining almost 86% of total variance:
1. overall global standing of the company
2. company as a factor on the market
3. company impact on the global political and economic debate
4. successfully distributing best-sellers
5. impact on the scholarly community
6. successfully distributing production to more than 50 global Worldcat libraries
7. output during the last 5 years
8. outstanding academic quality
Of the 51 companies with complete data under investigation here, the following companies are classified in the upper half: Oxford University Press; Springer; Cambridge University Press; Routledge; World Bank; Princeton University Press; Elsevier; CRC Press; University of Chicago Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; MIT Press; Yale University Press; University of North Carolina Press; De Gruyter; Wiley-Blackwell; Kluwer Academic Publishers; University of Pennsylvania Press; Johns Hopkins University Press; Brill; Nova Science Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Duke University Press; University of Washington Press; and Edward Elgar.
Scientists, wanting to get global audiences, are well advised to publish with those companies; and journal editors, wanting to get a global distribution for their journals, are equally well advised to cooperate with them.
SSRN is run by the Social Science Research Network in New York, associated with Elsevier.
Other articles, comparing Nova's performance in a scientific manner, were published in:
Tausch, A. (2011). On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries 1. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 42(4), 476-513.
Tausch, A. (2016), ‘The global publishing trajectory of a European political science community: indices, trends, and implications’ (‘La trayectoria global de publicaciones de una Comunidad Europea de Ciencia Política: índices, tendencias e implicaciones’) Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, Publicado el 26 noviembre, 2016 in Epistemología, Número 19. Available at: https://revistaentelequia.wordpress.com/category/numero-19/page/2/?order=asc , as a working paper also at my site in Researchgate
(2017), 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).‘ Bibliotheksdienst, March 2017: 339 – 374. as a working paper also at my site in Researchgate
All these studies came to the conclusion that Nova Science Publishers is to be ranked in the middle range of serious global academic publishers.
Dear Z. Wissam
I dont have any previous experience with publisher and if you wish to write a book and have a proposal for a book. I believe you should send the proposal to springerplus for book if they find they might ask you to write the book. Moreover, if someone you write the book that would be more useful for you.
Google search reveals that many are not comfortable with this publisher.
Kindly see:
http://www.chronicle.com/forums/index.php?topic=26097.0
One must consider the reputation of the publisher, & quality of the book published previously. Many publishers ask for soft copies & they publish as such. This reflect on the quality of publications with out following rules of ethics & plagiarism.
This seems to be a predatory publisher because they have not given their contact address and many things are hiding and that is the sign of predatory publishers. So, be careful in dealing with them.
Ramaiah
Hello, I am writing to you from Nova Science Publishers. Publishing with us is free except if you have color figures or your chapter(s) requires English Editing. Both of these have a charge associated with them. Our address is on Google and is visible to all. Our email is a bit hard to find on our current website. We are currently developing a new website which should be launched shortly. For any other inquiries, you can email [email protected], or email me directly at [email protected]. I hope this is helpful. Alexandra
I have published with the most prestigious publishers and each one is different, Nova is a good publisher, indexed in the most important indexes as Clarivate and others. In the fields of academic pulications publishers are specialized in different themes, Nova is strong in Medicine, and biology, while routledge is preminent in sociology. Nova is not a predatory publishers, predatory sources bill their authors with rapid publications, no matter the type of English. This is not the case. Nova has rejected many projects because pour english. besides, many pullizer candidates have published with Nova. the misunderstnding come from J. Beall, who works for Elsevier and started a campaign against Nova and others independent publishers.
the discussion in Forum seems to be done by amateur researchers or student, who believe erroneously that books are peer reviewed. So receiving an email asking for a book proposition is considered as a predatory publisher. This is incorrect .. http://www.chronicle.com/forums/index.php?topic=26097.0
In this link you will find all reputable publishers recognized by Web of Science, which today is the most important index. http://wokinfo.com/mbl/publishers/?utm_source=false&utm_medium=false&utm_campaign=false
if not, you have other two important indexes, in this link
While ranking a journal is very hard because there are many variable, some ranking list uses the number of indexed books, and others the opinion of experts. Do you feel WOS will accept a predatory publisher?
http://ilia.cchs.csic.es/SPI/prestigio_expertos_2014.php
http://www.sense.nl/gfx_content/documents/ABCDE-indeling%20Scientific%20Publishers%20SENSE_approved_May_2009.pdf
Maximiliano E. Korstanje thank You for a valuable answer. The Nova Publishers is listed on provided by You ( http://ilia.cchs.csic.es/SPI/prestigio_expertos_2014.php ) ranking of the most highly valued publishers but on rank number 251. Elsevier and Springer are in top ten. This ranking was published in 2014 and there is no update.
Alexandra Columbus as You wrote "Publishing with us is free except if you have color figures or your chapter(s) requires English Editing". How much cost the editing of the chapter ? I could't found this information on the webpage. This info is important for me and maybe for others.
Another invite from Nova Publishers, and I became as confused as I was when I saw the Intech book chapter invite.
However, unlike Intech, they seem not to charge any money but comments here (and in other threads) seem their review process is somewhat shabby and not of recommendable quality.
All the same am still thinking....Who knows I may decide to go along with it.
For me this information under the link is enough data to recognize a company.
https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/index.php?page=help
They have their own tradition and history of publishing associated with the person of Frank Columbus. It was a recognizable figure among publishers, the widow and daughter continue his work.
Beall's list might not be perfect but has definitely helped to spread consciousness about predatory journals. Authors will think twice before submitting their MSS to any unknown publisher.
I am just in a publishing process with Nova Publishers and It has been a good experience. Indeed, as Dr. Korstanje indicates, they are serious with the english edition and encourages you to be adviced by an english editor in order to have a clean english presentation of your contribution. Moreover, books are not peer reviewed.
Ivan, You have stated: Books are not peer reviewed. Is it correct?
Dear all, thank you for the replies. I'm sorry for the delayed response. This latest study came out. I was just informed about it. Maybe you will find it useful. Article The Market Power of Global Scientific Publishing Companies i...
With regards to English Editing and the associated costs, it really depends on the number of pages in the publication and the quality of English (meaning if its needs light English Editing or it needs extensive edits).
Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns. My email is [email protected] in case you want to write to me directly as well.
Thank you.
Alexandra
You might find this link helpful as well - https://novapublishersauthors.com/.
It shows some of the universities we've worked with and we post the reviews of books as we get them in (under "Book Reviews").
We publish approximately 1500 titles a year. Some of the books are peer-reviewed but all of them are not. By peer-reviewed, I mean a single peer review system, not double.
I understand this is important to most researchers and authors worldwide and we are currently developing a system that will make it easier for us to manage such a large quantity of books to be peer-reviewed.
Best regards,
Alexandra
Marcin Kopka, it seems we are #109 on that link. But it's the first time I've seen it so I will study it. Thank you. Alexandra
I think we have to focus on the quality of the article and book. So, be carful.
A scientific answer to the question about the quality of Nova Science Publishers can be found in several published bibliometric essays of mine, most recently in
Tausch, Arno, The Market Power of Global Scientific Publishing Companies in the Age of Globalization: An Analysis Based on the OCLC Worldcat (June 16, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3197632 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3197632 (forthcoming in the Journal of Globalization Studies).
This article evaluates tendencies and trends of the global academic publishing industry, vital for any reasonable long-term publication strategy planning in research. Such analyses are made possible today by the OCLC Worldcat. Our multivariate attempt, combining Worldcat global library circulation figures of publisher companies with results from earlier publisher ranking studies, is based on factor analysis of 32 variables, and our promax factor analytical model establishes that there are eight factors of global publisher impact, explaining almost 86% of total variance:
1. overall global standing of the company
2. company as a factor on the market
3. company impact on the global political and economic debate
4. successfully distributing best-sellers
5. impact on the scholarly community
6. successfully distributing production to more than 50 global Worldcat libraries
7. output during the last 5 years
8. outstanding academic quality
Of the 51 companies with complete data under investigation here, the following companies are classified in the upper half: Oxford University Press; Springer; Cambridge University Press; Routledge; World Bank; Princeton University Press; Elsevier; CRC Press; University of Chicago Press; University of California Press; Palgrave Macmillan; MIT Press; Yale University Press; University of North Carolina Press; De Gruyter; Wiley-Blackwell; Kluwer Academic Publishers; University of Pennsylvania Press; Johns Hopkins University Press; Brill; Nova Science Publishers; University of Illinois Press; Duke University Press; University of Washington Press; and Edward Elgar.
Scientists, wanting to get global audiences, are well advised to publish with those companies; and journal editors, wanting to get a global distribution for their journals, are equally well advised to cooperate with them.
SSRN is run by the Social Science Research Network in New York, associated with Elsevier.
Other articles, comparing Nova's performance in a scientific manner, were published in:
Tausch, A. (2011). On the Global Impact of Selected Social-Policy Publishers in More Than 100 Countries 1. Journal of Scholarly Publishing, 42(4), 476-513.
Tausch, A. (2016), ‘The global publishing trajectory of a European political science community: indices, trends, and implications’ (‘La trayectoria global de publicaciones de una Comunidad Europea de Ciencia Política: índices, tendencias e implicaciones’) Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar, Publicado el 26 noviembre, 2016 in Epistemología, Número 19. Available at: https://revistaentelequia.wordpress.com/category/numero-19/page/2/?order=asc , as a working paper also at my site in Researchgate
(2017), 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).‘ Bibliotheksdienst, March 2017: 339 – 374. as a working paper also at my site in Researchgate
All these studies came to the conclusion that Nova Science Publishers is to be ranked in the middle range of serious global academic publishers.
Additional note. On the website "Stop Predatory Journals" https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/, based on Beall's list, the Nova publishing house does not exist. Instead, you can find another publisher with a similar name: Nova Explore Publications http://novaexplore.com/. It seems that these are two different publishers.
No good to use in the list to compete for the Nobel price, it is no more on the CRIStin list, but :A recent 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.[12]
For me, avoid all publishers that send emails inviting papers for publication.
I received an 'invitation' from Nova Science Publishers today, but can not work out what to do with it. I know that they are a genuine publisher, but a random approach to submit/edit just seems off kilter.
I received suxch an invitation - was suspicious (sad \world we live in) and hence my finding this thread discussion. Would welcome feedback from others - would like to encourage completing doc researchers to publish more - but with Nova? Not sure.
Since Nova appears to be writing to us all... Here is a very relevant thread from a few years ago on Nova Publishing: https://www.chronicle.com/forums/index.php?topic=26097.0
tl/dr: It sounds like they put out essentially unedited work that no one reads or cites, so not worth our time. These are older posts, so it might have changed somewhat, but I will continue to delete their emails...
I am in the same situation. I received and I am not sure about it. They say they are A+ on BBB, but what does it mean in science? I`m very confused. So, if you could share your thoughts about it! If they are spreading around for authors, are they good? Should we "waste" time on that? Is that worthy? And, what area are you? Is it really suspicious? They said they are going to send the hardcover book for us "upon request".
JournalGuide is a free tool created by a group of software developers, former researchers, and scholarly publishing veterans at Research Square.
https://www.journalguide.com/
University of Washington offers open access a notoriety index based on Thomson-Reuters data. http://www.eigenfactor.org/projects/journalRank/
See with the visibility of this journal: citations, references... Researchers who publish regularly in this journal and the members of the editorial committee, guarantors of the journal quality..
I received invitations for many times from this publisher to publish book chapters/books. Sometimes the mentioned subject area was totally irrelevant to my background. Some other times they mentioned the title of one of my published articles in their email and requested me to write a chapter of a book but the title of the book was not at all relevant to the mentioned article. Therefore, I became suspicious about this publisher and never replied back. I have published book chapters with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis but received the best reviews for the book chapters published by Springer. I can see that now novices, such as the first year Ph.D. students, also writing book chapters and those are published by renowned publishers. It looks like the overall quality of publishing books/book chapters seriously went down.
I received an invitation last month to write a book on double beta decay. This invitation is based upon my recent theoretical contributions in the subject using GUTs like SO(10) and SU(5). Although I have not decided yet, the invitation is not fake but appears to be based upon their inputs on the invitee.
I could see in person, as a translator of another author's book and an intermediary in conversations with the publishing house, that Nova Science Publishers is real (not fictitious) and the cooperation with the manager runs perfectly. They are professional and reliable, very helpful. At the beginning there were some technical problems with their new site, not all links worked, but after paying attention to them, it was fixed. I would also like to add that this publishing house (Nova Science Publishers) has been on the lists of renowned scientific publications for several years and has a growing position from year to year. For example: http://ilia.cchs.csic.es/SPI/prestigio_expertosEn_2018.php
I too cherish the view that it is unfair to assume a publisher to be predative without actually considering different factors associated with publication. Further writing a book or a book chapter is different from writing a paper for a reputed journal of high impact factor. If I find time to write a book or book-chapter in future I will take into consideration different views expressed in this forum. At present I am too busy in writing research papers and guiding research in High Energy Physics.
Before submitting a research article/review article/book chapter/book proposal, one needs to look at the reliability and quality of the publisher or journal. We should not submit our work to the journals/books published by a dodgy publisher. Our attention may stop booming these predatory publishers.
Dear Mohammad, thank you for your reply. First year PhD students cannot publish as a lead author. They must publish as a co-author to a PhD/doctoral researcher, if they publish at all with us. I would say out of 1,800 titles a year, perhaps this is the case for 2 or 3 titles. If you can give some specific examples, I will be able to reply in more detail. Or if you know of an example in which this is not the case, please let me know.
Dear Renata, thank you for your positive reply. Indeed, launching a new website with over 35,000 products was a huge undertaking which we are still working on. We had some links that were not working but I believe we have fixed them all. On our new website, we are still adding older books (this will take a year or so to complete). Thank you.
Dear Alexandra, I wish your publishing house further development, the best authors and a wide circle of good readers. A lot of successes.
I just received an invitation to write a book to this publisher and I do not know yet what to answer. Thank you for your previous posts.
I have had several books (4 published 2 in press)published by Nova. I always had professional service. The finished books have been well received and well reviewed. I do not accept that the present-day NOVA Science Publishers are predatory nor do I see it as vanity press. I also publish with Springer (5 books), CRC Press (3 books) and Routledge, Kluwer Academic etc
I would encourage all authors who submit manuscripts to get it peer reviewed before submission. After all it the author's reputation that will suffer if the work is shoddy. I am retired from University of Adelaide, Australia I have over 150 refereed papers, and 15 books so my experience must count for something .
I was asked by them to publish a chapter in a book for Nova Science Publishers -is this the reputable firm?
Apparently a number of authors have contributed in favor of Nova Science Publishers. Although it is not as famous as Cambridge or Oxford University publishers, it appears to carry certain reasonable degree of reputation. In this regard, however, the caution indicated by Panagiota as noted above may be exercised.
I have co-edited a book for Nova Science Publishers (NSP) with Prof. Jean Pinson. We have carefully examined all chapters written by experts in their own fields. The only problem is the typeset. It is not nice at all, and the book looks like a standard WORD document. In contrast, much better and nicer typeset is done by historical publishers such as Elsevier, or Wiley, Springer...
Whether NSP is a predatory publisher, check out Beall's list of predaotory publishers and you will not find NSP listed https://beallslist.weebly.com/
Having said that, whether you publish with NSP, or a historical more famous publisher, as editor you must carefully check all chapters and get them reviewed. It is better. Yet, it is even more difficult to find reviewers for book chapters than for evaluating original or review papers.
To finish, there is no obligation to reply, and if you prefer to publisher with historical publishers the procedure is the same for all (including NSP):
provide an eye catchy title, a timely topic, a description of the book content, excellent chapters written by experts in the field; indicate what makes your book unique, how long you think it will be up to date, a provisional list of authors (better get their agreement first), you must also provide a list of similar books but tell what distinguishes your future book from the present and past similar ones. All these issues must be provided for any publisher you are collaborating with.
I hope you find these informations useful and help you to make decision now or in the near future.
Good luck
Agreed very much with Mohamed Chehimi. Typeset, print and gate-up, besides the intrinsic value of the author's writing are some of the pivotal elements which attract the readers to a published book and more authors, to some extent..
I appreciate Nova Science Publishers for their efforts in promoting the cause of science. As I am extremely preoccupied with committments made to my University, it has been difficult to join their program immediately. Hope to find some time
in near future.
I too apreciate the view expressed by DR. Peter Breuer .
one year after publication you may apply to Scopus. For NOVA books this may be automatic
My institution and country too pay more importance to publications in scpus indexed books and journals. In order to attract more authors NOVA publishing administration may try to get their publications scopus indexed. In this regard I appreciate the questions asked by Usman Sumo and Hesti Maheswari.
I also have a similar invitation to publish a chapter in a book/edit a book. It seems like a random invitation sent to many acdemics and so I am sceptical
" It seems like a random invitation sent to many acdemics " - I am thinking the same
I agree with you. They must be reaching out to every academic they can. As such, one has to take some precautionary measure before submitting an academic book or book chapter to them.
yes 5 books, numerous chapters. All good, very helpful and quite professional. I have also published with Springer, CRC and Routledge
@Wissam Zam, I think it is important that you know that as much as Nova Publishers may not charge you for their service. They are perceived as predatory Journals.
You can check the database of predatory Journals and Publishers. Thank you.
I have received such kind of invitation from Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Gone through their website, seems to me a money-making factory. Better avoid these kinds of publishers who ask for your paper/journal/book to be published. They do take authors' information from other publishers (maybe established) and send an invitation with alluring proposals.
Check the following link:
https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=Nova%20Science%20Publishers%20Inc.&tip=pub
Every journal published by this publisher seems predatory. Though at first, you may see them indexed in Scopus, just go to the journal website, you will face an error.
I have the same invitation to edit a book. After I search on google and here I understand that the publishing house under discussion not good for me. So I do not want to sign the contract anyway. I think also I am a young researcher that they send easily an invitation as an editor. Because they think that the younger is always will say yes! If you read the contract in detail you will not like it.
I am publishing my second book with them. They are hard to please because of so many details they demand
l did not sign contract. One of my relatives who lives in USA searched about nova. Her husband is prof. at Roosevelt uni.They do not recommend publish with nova. One of my friend who is associated prof faculty of law in Ankara read the contract. He told me some part is not good for you. They takes all copyright ! They write also auter must buy 20 books plus mailing to her country. That means you must pay money. But they told me before no money, free publish. One of my friend who works new-york uni associated prof. searched nova. She told me same things not recommended nova.
Not my experience. 5 books so far (look them up on AMAZON or NOVA website) no pay, no requirement to buy books.
I'm just going through the process with them. My big gripe is that they charge ridiculous fees for their books - based on number of pages. After a year of work, I am concerned that no one will ever read what I know will be a really useful publication. Also, they are publishing the book in 9x6 format which is unsatisfactory. Wouldn't work with them again.
My 5 books with NOVA are in 7x10 format but I agree that the price puts the books out of reach for many but they are available in e-book format and through AMAZON at a discounted price. Springer (also 5 books) charge exorbitant prices. The justification is that the readership is limited and so economies of scale cannot be achieved.
My book was not some research but a historical Analysis of different cultures I lived in.
I have just asked what the ebook price for my book would be and it is the same as the hard copy - $230 . Totally ludicris price. I would advise people to stay well away if you hope to share your work
If you give money you will have a published book ! The problem is predatory publishers ! As a scientist, we should not give any chance to such an predatory publishers. The other side of medallion is included bad tomatoes/ some of our colleagues that are every job includes it. They write poor science but have a book !
One chapter is published in Nova book without any payment.
As for predatory nature and scientific value of books, I think that general problem exists with books reviewing. Usually, book is a summary of previous journal articles of author(s), and if those journals are well reviewed, then book is interesting and no matter what publisher produced it.
Yes, I have had a few books published with Nova- they send a contract- and you can read it and decide if you want to publish with them- they are very clear, exact, specific and precise- as to whether you want a paperback or hard back book or e-book- However, if you want to use color photos or pictures in your book- then things get complicated.
I want to publish a book chapter in Nova Science Publishers. Please let me know how to publish in their publisher.
I want to publish several of my papers as a book chapter in Nova publisher. Please give some suggestion how can to do these?
Nova invited me to write a chapter. It is in the last phase. I hope it will be fine and give me a big opportunity to increase my citation index
Well, the trick is to SHARE your chapter with others in YOUR field, and ask them to read it and possibly cite it- and for you to ask them to share it with THEIR colleagues...There is more to life than just increasing your citation index--many scholars and researchers simply want to share their research and thoughts and ideas with others- and get their feedback. Many scholars and researchers feel that they have something important to say and share----does this make sense??
Michael is on the right track. Book chapters/books are a synthesis of your own work and that of relevant others. I CAN TELL YOU THAT BOOKS/CHAPTERS IN BOOK PUBLISHED BY NOVA Science Publishers, N.Y. RECEIVE AS MANY "READS" OR CITATIONS AS JOURNAL ARTICLES IN OTHER SITES. Those who complain that the books/articles are not peer reviewed fall into the trap of not sharing in advance. If you are that it won't "pass" if you send to colleagues then you should be ashamed of publishing over your name. Many OPEN ACCESS journals/books are just money gougers. My experience with NOVA has been good.
I was just asked to write a chapter for an upcoming hard cover collection published by Nova Science. It has a strong reputation but the impetus to publish with them is to share meaningful work, not increase a citation index.
I agree----if your only goal in life is to increase a citation index--well, what can I say- I often publish stuff- because I feel I have something important to say- I feel that there are things that NEED to be said and put in print- and perhaps no one else has approached a topic from a certain point of view and no one else has done research on a certain topic- that needs to be investigated. Sharing meaningful work, and meaningful thoughts and opinions is important.
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