 World Scientific Publishing Company was established in 1981 with only five
employees in a tiny office. Today, the company employs more than 200 staff at its
headquarters in Singapore, and has offices in New Jersey, London, Hong Kong,
Taipei, Chennai, Beijing and Shanghai. In less than three
decades, it has established itself as one of the leading scientific publishers
in the world, and the largest international scientific publisher
in the Asia-Pacific region.
Annually, World Scientific publishes about 500 titles a year and
120 journals in various fields. Many of its books are
recommended texts adopted by renowned institutions such as
Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University.
Among the company's notable successes was its
being awarded the exclusive rights in 1991 by the Nobel
Foundation in Stockholm to publish (in English) the entire series of Nobel
lectures from 1971 to 1990 and to distribute them
worldwide. Subsequently, World Scientific again obtained the rights
to publish the complete series of Nobel lectures delivered from 1901 to 2000.
In 1995, World Scientific co-founded the London-based Imperial College Press with
London University's Imperial College. The Press publishes mainly in the
fields in which Imperial College itself is particularly well-known, such
as Engineering, Medicine, Information Technology, Environmental
Technology, and Management Sciences. Imperial College Press has
published about 400 books and 8 journals to date.
World Scientific is also the exclusive distributor for The National Academies Press (based in Washington, D.C.) in Asia (except Japan, New Zealand and Australia).
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