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Springer has major offices in Berlin, <a href="/wiki/Heidelberg" title="Heidelberg">Heidelberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dordrecht" title="Dordrecht">Dordrecht</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Julius_Springer" title="Julius Springer">Julius Springer</a> founded <b>Springer-Verlag</b> in Berlin in 1842 and his son Ferdinand Springer grew it from a small firm of 4 employees into Germany's then second-largest academic publisher with 65 staff in 1872.<sup id="cite_ref-springer_history_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-springer_history-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-springer_chron_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-springer_chron-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1964, Springer expanded its business internationally, opening an office in New York City. Offices in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, and Delhi soon<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The time period mentioned near this tag is ambiguous. (April 2020)">when?</span></a></i>]</sup> followed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (April 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 1999, the academic publishing company <b>BertelsmannSpringer</b> was formed after the media and entertainment company <a href="/wiki/Bertelsmann" title="Bertelsmann">Bertelsmann</a> bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag.<sup id="cite_ref-springer_history_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-springer_history-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-poynder2003_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poynder2003-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2003, the British investment groups <a href="/wiki/Cinven" title="Cinven">Cinven</a> and <a href="/wiki/Candover_Investments" title="Candover Investments">Candover</a> bought BertelsmannSpringer from Bertelsmann.<sup id="cite_ref-poynder2003_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poynder2003-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They merged the company in 2004 with the <a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Dutch</a> publisher <b>Kluwer Academic Publishers</b> (successor of <a href="/wiki/D._Reidel" title="D. Reidel">D. Reidel</a>, Dr. W. Junk, Plenum Publishers, most of <a href="/wiki/Chapman_%26_Hall" title="Chapman & Hall">Chapman & Hall</a>), and <a href="/wiki/Baltzer_Science_Publishers" title="Baltzer Science Publishers">Baltzer Science Publishers</a>) which they bought from <a href="/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer" title="Wolters Kluwer">Wolters Kluwer</a> in 2002,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to form <b>Springer Science+Business Media.</b> </p><p>In 2006, Springer acquired <a href="/wiki/Humana_Press" title="Humana Press">Humana Press</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Springer acquired the <a href="/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Open access (publishing)">open-access publisher</a> <a href="/wiki/BioMed_Central" title="BioMed Central">BioMed Central</a> in October 2008 for an undisclosed amount.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009, Cinven and Candover sold Springer to two private equity firms, <a href="/wiki/EQT_AB" title="EQT AB">EQT AB</a> and <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Singapore_Investment_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Government of Singapore Investment Corporation">Government of Singapore Investment Corporation</a>, confirmed in February 2010 after the competition authorities in the US and in Europe approved the transfer.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, Springer acquired Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services (MPS) from Wolters Kluwer.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, the London-based private equity firm <a href="/wiki/BC_Partners" title="BC Partners">BC Partners</a> acquired a majority stake in Springer from EQT and GIC for $4.4 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2015, <a href="/wiki/Holtzbrinck_Publishing_Group" title="Holtzbrinck Publishing Group">Holtzbrinck Publishing Group</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nature_Publishing_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Nature Publishing Group">Nature Publishing Group</a> and Springer Science+Business Media announced a <a href="/wiki/Mergers_and_acquisitions" title="Mergers and acquisitions">merger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in May 2015 they concluded the transaction and formed a new joint venture company, <a href="/wiki/Springer_Nature" title="Springer Nature">Springer Nature</a> with Holtzbrinck in the majority 53% share and <a href="/wiki/BC_Partners" title="BC Partners">BC Partners</a> retaining 47% interest in the company.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Products">Products</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1996, Springer launched electronic book and journal content on its SpringerLink site.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>SpringerImages was launched in 2008. In 2009, SpringerMaterials, a platform for accessing the <a href="/wiki/Landolt-B%C3%B6rnstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Landolt-Börnstein">Landolt-Börnstein</a> database of research and information on materials and their properties, was launched.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>AuthorMapper is a free online tool for visualizing scientific research that enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps, helping users explore patterns in scientific research, identify literature trends, discover collaborative relationships, and locate experts in several scientific/medical fields.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Springer_Protocols" title="Springer Protocols">Springer Protocols</a> contained a collection of laboratory protocols, recipes that provide step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments, which in 2018 was made available in SpringerLink instead.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 168,000 titles are available as e-books in 24 subject collections.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Open_access">Open access</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Open access"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Springer is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Open_Access_Scholarly_Publishers_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association">Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-OASPA-SN_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OASPA-SN-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For some of its journals, Springer does not require its authors to transfer their copyrights, and allows them to decide whether their articles are published under an <a href="/wiki/Open_access_(publishing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Open access (publishing)">open-access</a> license or in the traditional restricted licence model.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While open-access publishing typically requires the author to pay a fee for copyright retention, this fee is sometimes covered by a third party. For example, a national institution in Poland allows authors to publish in open-access journals without incurring any personal cost but using public funds.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1938, Springer-Verlag was pressed to apply <a href="/wiki/Nazi_Germany" title="Nazi Germany">Nazi</a> principles on the journal <a href="/wiki/Zentralblatt_MATH" class="mw-redirect" title="Zentralblatt MATH">Zentralblatt MATH</a>. <a href="/wiki/Tullio_Levi-Civita" title="Tullio Levi-Civita">Tullio Levi-Civita</a>, who was Jewish, was forced out from the editorial board, and <a href="/wiki/Otto_Neugebauer" class="mw-redirect" title="Otto Neugebauer">Otto Neugebauer</a> resigned in protest along with most of the rest of the board.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, it was revealed that 16 papers in conference proceedings published by Springer had been computer-generated using <a href="/wiki/SCIgen" title="SCIgen">SCIgen</a>. Springer subsequently retracted all papers from these proceedings. <a href="/wiki/IEEE" class="mw-redirect" title="IEEE">IEEE</a> had removed more than 100 fake papers from its conference proceedings.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Springer <a href="/wiki/Retractions_in_academic_publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="Retractions in academic publishing">retracted</a> 64 papers from 10 of its journals it had published after a fraudulent <a href="/wiki/Peer_review" title="Peer review">peer review</a> process was uncovered.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manipulation_of_bibliometrics">Manipulation of bibliometrics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Manipulation of bibliometrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <a href="/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law" title="Goodhart's law">Goodhart's law</a> and concerned academics like the signatories of the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Declaration_on_Research_Assessment" title="San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment">San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment</a>, commercial academic publishers benefit from manipulation of <a href="/wiki/Bibliometrics" title="Bibliometrics">bibliometrics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Scientometrics" title="Scientometrics">scientometrics</a> like the <a href="/wiki/Journal_impact_factor" class="mw-redirect" title="Journal impact factor">journal impact factor</a>, which is often used as <a href="/wiki/Proxy_(statistics)" title="Proxy (statistics)">a proxy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Occupational_prestige" title="Occupational prestige">prestige</a> and can influence revenues, including <a href="/wiki/Subsidy" title="Subsidy">public subsidies</a> in the form of subscriptions and free work from academics.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Seven Springer Nature journals, which exhibited unusual levels of <a href="/wiki/Self-citation" class="mw-redirect" title="Self-citation">self-citation</a>, had their <a href="/wiki/Journal_impact_factor" class="mw-redirect" title="Journal impact factor">journal impact factor</a> of 2019 suspended from <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports" title="Journal Citation Reports">Journal Citation Reports</a></i> in 2020, a sanction which hit 34 journals in total.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_imprints">Selected imprints</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Selected imprints"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 16em;"> <ul><li>Adis International<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apress" class="mw-redirect" title="Apress">Apress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BioMed_Central" title="BioMed Central">BioMed Central</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chemistry_Central" title="Chemistry Central">Chemistry Central</a> (defunct)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/PhysMath_Central" title="PhysMath Central">PhysMath Central</a> (defunct)</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birkh%C3%A4user_Verlag" class="mw-redirect" title="Birkhäuser Verlag">Birkhäuser Verlag</a></li> <li>Current Medicine Group</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humana_Press" title="Humana Press">Humana Press</a></li> <li>Infochem</li> <li>Kluwer Academic Publishers (defunct) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baltzer_Science_Publishers" title="Baltzer Science Publishers">Baltzer Science Publishers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._Reidel" title="D. 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