world scientific world scientific founded 1981 founder phua kok khoo and doreen liu country of origin singapore distribution self distributed singapore united states publication types books academic journals official website wwwworldscientificcom world scientific publishing is an academic publisher of scientific technical and medical books and journals headquartered in singapore the company was founded in 1981 it publishes about 600 books annually as well as 135 journals in various fields in 1995 world scientific cofounded the londonbased imperial college press together with the imperial college of science technology and medicine company structure the company head office is in singapore the chairman and editorinchief is dr phua kok khoo while the managing director is doreen liu the company was cofounded by them in 1981 imperial college press in 1995 the company cofounded imperial college press specializing in engineering medicine and information technology with imperial college london in 2006 world scientific assumed full ownership of imperial college press under a license granted by the university finally in august 2016 icp was fully incorporated into world scientific under the new imprint world scientific europe controversy in 2014 the singapore literature prize was accused of allegedly naming the nonfiction prize after world scientific who sponsored the category the judges for the singapore literature prize for nonfiction were independent parties appointed by the book council singapore portal companies portal books portal journals published by world scientific official website 