The list below provides links to the majority of big name publishers in the scientific literature genre. These publishers are responsible for holding and distributing many of the most influential scientific journals available to academics and scholars. Here is a collection of journals dealing with just microbiology and virology. Two of many fields which each have an overwhelming amount of content to keep track of.
Scientific Journal Publishing Houses
- Ablex
- Academic Press
- Addison-Wesley
- American Association of University Presses (AAUP)
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Mathematical Society (AMS)
- American Scientific Publishers
- American Society of Microbiology (ASM)
- Apple Academic Press
- Anthem Press
- Avon Books
- Ballantine – A part of Random House.
- Bantam Books
- Basic Books
- John Benjamins
- Blackwell
- Blackwell Publishers
- Cambridge International Science Publishing
- Cambridge University Press
- Chapman & Hall
- Charles River Media
- Collamore
- Columbia University Press
- Cornell Univ Press
- De Gruyter
- EDP
- Ellis Horwood
- Elsevier Science
- Erlbaum
- Free Press
- W.H.Freeman
- Guilford
- Harper Collins
- Harvard University Press
- Holt, Rinehart & Winston
- Houghton Mifflin
- Hyperion
- International Universities Press
- IOS Press
- Karger
- Kluwer Academic
- Lawrence Erlbaum
- Libertas Academica
- Macmillan Publishing
- Macmillan Computer Publishing USA
- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. Publishers
- McGraw-Hill
- MIT Press
- Morgan Kaufman
- North Holland
- W.W. Norton
- O’Reilly
- Oxford University Press
- Pantheon
- Penguin
- Pergamon Press
- Plenum Publishing
- PLOS
- Prentice Hall
- Princeton University Press
- Psychology Press
- Random House
- Rift Publishing House
- Routledge
- Rutgers University Press
- Scientia Press
- Simon & Schuster
- Simon & Schuster Interactive
- SPIE
- Springer Verlag
- Stanford University Press
- Tekno Scienze
- Touchstone
- University of California Press
- University of Chicago Press
- Van Nostrand Reinhold
- Wiley
- John Wiley
- World Scientific Publishing
- Yale University Press
- Yourdon
- University of Chicago Press
It should be noted that in today’s society almost anyone can start a journal or publishing company. As the “publish or perish” mindset is still very much alive in the STEM fields, predatory and poorly reviewed publishing services charging young and/or unknowing scientists for their hard work have popped up at an alarming rate. This link goes to a list of open access journals which have been deemed questionable by the scientific community.
The amount of true information in the world is already overwhelming without introducing poorly executed, and sometimes maliciously fraudulent, articles into the mix. This is why it is more important then ever to check ones sources and citations. We must be vigilant, scientists and non-scientists alike, or we may end up spending millions on misinformed research, or yet worse losing our personal credibility.
The above is by no means everything, but hopefully it can provide you with some helpful sources. As always, leave me a comment if any of the links are dead! With so much content, I could easily miss something, so your help is much appreciated.
Also if you know of any additional well renowned publishers, or if any of the above become a bit shady, let me know what I’ve missed and shoot me a link!
