Wikipedia talk:Collaborations

Overviews
I have some concerns with creating overviews for each collaboration project.
 * 1) Large overlap with the collaborations template.
 * 2) The constant birth and death of collaborations would require near-constant editing and re-editing of this page.
 * 3) No other top-level overview page does this. The page on WikiProjects doesn't attempt to overview every wikiproject--it would be a logistical nightmare.
 * 4) Doesn't add much to the wikipedian's experience: the name of the collaboration is usually enough to pique one's interest.
 * 5) Overloads this page's length, TOC, and general usefulness. I think we should remain on-point with the most useful information about collaborations in general, and about setting up new collaborations.
 * Understandable, it was just stated in the project page that the page was supposed to have that. It wouldn't require constant updating though, just the new collabs when this done.(Idea is to have inactive ,and active). Anyway, I'll go either way with this but for now I removed the text in the article refering to the overviews. Falphin 22:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Commonwealth of Nations Numismatics
We could do with a lot of help from the numismatists on the board with improving the articles in this project, especially with photos. I can't provide photos, as I have to borrow a computer, which does not have a scanner or a digital camera attached. If you are a coin dealer, we'd like your assistance with catalogue references. - (Aidan Work 01:36, 17 January 2006 (UTC))

Where should the collaboration template go?
The Collaborations states (with my emphasis)


 * Create a collaboration notice template, and insert it at the top of the talk page of current or nominated collaborations.

but later it says


 * General practice is to have the template marking the current collaboration at the top of the article in question while leaving the candidacy templates on the talk page.

Is that a contradiction?

I strongly disagree with putting any kind of such templates on article pages. They do not belong there and are distracting. The appropriate place for them is the talk page. I would like to raise some discussion on that. Thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:03, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I made a bit of a speech on this very issue to get the GA collaboration rules changed, and I don't think I have the time to re-type the whole thing, but my sentiments on the issue can be found at: Wikipedia talk:Good Article Collaboration of the week near the bottom. I would however agree that the rules are probably contradictory in this respect, however, it may be that the first one is talking about a different notice template than the one below, I dunno. Homestarmy 00:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The template should go on the talk page in my opinion. The only messages which go on article pages are ones directly relating to the content.  Wikipedia messages go on talk pages.  If they are to go on the article pages, then at least make them small! --Midnighttonight 02:31, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I think that all such templates should go on the talk pages. Paul August &#9742; 00:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * While I agree that the templates can be distracting, even ugly in some cases, I think they are too often overlooked if they are relegated to talk pages. So I support placement of temporary collaboration templates on article pages, although with reluctance in some cases. Perhaps we could agree on some guidelines for size, colour, etc to minimise the obtrusiveness of the templates? -- Avenue 00:56, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I think guidelines would be nice, 1 line ought to do it in my opinion. Of course, im one to talk since the collaboration I participate in has a 2-line template, but I can't figure out how to shrink it to a neat, single line of text :(. Homestarmy 00:59, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree that the article page is probably the place for the tag of the article being worked on. This results in only one tag per collaboration, bringing the total number of tags on the entire en.WP to like, what, twenty?  Then you have to realize that all of those tags are on articles that are so bad that a group voted them in need of dire help.  That being the case, I don't think the tag is taking anything away from the article.  In fact, it is doing the opposite by letting visitors know that not only does en.WP realize the article quality is lacking, but that en.WP is organized and doing something about it.


 * With that being said, I think that only active collaborations should have tags on pages. If the collaboration is defunct, the tag is meaningless and will negate all of the pros I listed before. uriah923(talk) 03:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * The mathematics article is not bad, rather in very good shape. And until I changed it, that collaboration template was with red text on reddish background, awful. I see the motivation for putting tags on articles needing cleanup, but not on good articles.


 * Besides, the surest way of people noticing the collaboration is via the collaboration project and other various posts, not on the article itself. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:21, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Collaboration templates belong on the talk page because they are not relevant to the general reader of the article (i.e. a non-contributor who has just picked the article from a Google search). Gandalf61 08:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Well what if somebody tries to reference Wikipedia while an article is in collaboration, and cites it, and suppose a teacher back checks it only to find the article has been changed? A collaboration template would help tell readers "Hey, this article is being worked on, yo!" Homestarmy 14:14, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Articles are always being worked on, whether in collaboration or not. By definition, all of Wikipedia is fluid at all times. I find your argument a bit unconvincing. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 14:53, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * But think of it this way, if you've got a collaboration, that's somewhat like an extra cluster of Wikipedia editors focusing themselves on an article, often times with the goal of changing it as much as necessary to become an FA. Many articles are relatively stagnent until a collaboration comes on by, and while an article can surely change at any time, collaboration status makes it far more likely that it will change much more drastically, especially in the way of getting references, which is basically what verifies most information. With the push to improve an article much more strong, information and references will probably change much more rapidly and drastically than normal editing would do. Besides, the single line templates aren't that ugly, maybe make a standardized style for all of them onto one line, it could make it look more formal. Homestarmy 17:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree that tasteful and unobtrusive tags on the article page are the way to go. uriah923(talk) 18:05, 24 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I have to agree that these templates belong on the talk page - ESPECIALY the potential COTW templates like USnom - no one but editors needs to know that information. While I disagree that those using wikipedia need notice that an article is under current collaboration; there is at least some logic to that. But putting a notice on somthing that may or may not ever be collaborated on is meta data that does not belong on the article page. Additionally, as indicated in the recent signpost article on the subject of metadata on the article pages - even templates that only add small unobtrusive icons are generally still reaching concensus to be deleted except for the most popular ones (featured article and Spoken Wikipedia) Trödel  21:58, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * notice I went ahead and moved all of the USnom to the talk page so that it doesn't end up being nominated for deletion while this is being discussed. Trödel  22:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I got to Games on COTWs removing all nomination templates being used on the article page as of 22:57, 24 May 2006 (UTC) Trödel  :)
 * I think that candidate templates definently don't need to be on the article page, but should this discussino include both nomination templates and main templates? Homestarmy 22:13, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The nomination tags most definitely should go on the talk page, as there could be hundreds of them and their validity/importance hasn't been established. Active collaborations, however, are very few in number and are on articles that are usually voted to need lots of help.  uriah923(talk) 22:28, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No such templates are not restricted only to articles which "need lots of help". Paul August &#9742; 23:04, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I think that think that candidate templates should be on the talkpage, but 'Active'' collaborations should go on the article page. Brian | (Talk) 07:17, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

In my opinion, candidate templates should be placed on both article and discussion pages. Paul James Cowie 07:26, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Meta information should go on talk pages only. This is an encyclopedia and while every article could use and under construction sign, that's implied in what we do. I can't believe there aren't more people that are chiming in that there's already been significant discussion and consensus that templates like this should only go on talk pages. It's not like the template is what draws someone in to edit the article. The collaboration pages themselves and other placces that point out the collaboration do that and it's fine for the template to be on the talk page. - Taxman Talk 21:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Well whatever discussion happened, most collaborations seem to of either ignored it or didn't care, because most of them seem to still place their tags on article pages. Homestarmy 00:40, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

There hasn't been discussion on this in over a month, but I would like to see a consensus reached so we don't have 20 different collaboration projects all working with different rules. Whatever is decided, it should apply to all projects. I feel that according to what the Help:Namespaces are used for, and WP:ASR, that these sorts of templates should go on talk pages. Any message aimed towards editors should go on talk. Any message aimed towards casual readers (such as NPOV tags and clean up tags etc) should go in the main article namespace. Some editors have suggested that placing the collaboration templates in the main article namespace works to advertise these projects. However, I do not think the encyclopedic integrity of an article should be compromised in order to advertise to editors, or otherwise encourage lay readers to participate. If someone is interested, they can actively seek out the project pages, or come across the templates almost just as easily through the talk pages. Anyway, that's my 2 cents. Whatever happens, I hope we can reach a decision, and that we can apply it for all the collaboration projects. --Andrew c 22:43, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Some of us have also expressed the idea that putting the collaboration template on the main article helps to inform casual readers that the content of the article may change more rapidly that the article may normally change. Homestarmy 23:22, 14 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Well if that is the case, a) I think the templates should be revised in order to suit that meaning better and b) we should put similar tags on some of the most edited articles (surely there is a way to figure out the top 20 articles that get the most edits per day). I think the compromise that most collabortion projects have reached, put the nomination templates on talk, and the weekly article templates on the main article, seems sufficient (while I personally would like to see them all on talk, in the spirit of compromise, hold back those feelings). --Andrew c 00:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)


 * My view remains the same - they should be on the top of talk pages only. But I am willing to compromise on the actual selection. However, for nominee templates I feel to put them on the article page is goes agianst policy. -- Trödel 02:32, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

This discussion seems to have ended, but any kind of self-referential (so to speak) templates should probably go under discussion only... Mad Jack 16:36, 5 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed, I plan on bringing this up with some of the projects within the next week --T-rex 19:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

LGBT?
Was just looking at the Collaboration templates' sections, and have no idea where WP:LGBT's Collaboration would go. Anyone know? Dev920 (Have a nice day!) 18:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Standing lists at Wikiprojects
To facilitate throughput to GA and FA, I'm trialling this; I've listed Standing Lists of large articles with substantial content which may be within striking distance of GA with varying amounts of work WRT formatting and copyediting. Some are already being worked on but I'm seeing if this increases collaboration. So far I've done this on WP mammals talk page and WP Birds collab pages. Be interesting to see if more of these come through cheers, Cas Liber | talk  |  contribs 01:31, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

RfC: Should the collaboration template appear on the article page
Some editors have suggested that the collaboration template should not appear on the article page. They have raised the matter at Wikipedia talk:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight and also at Administrators%27_noticeboard. At WP:ANI it was suggested that the issue be escalated more generally and it should not consider only the Australian collaboration but collaboration projects in general. I note the issue was discussed above on this page (Wikipedia talk:Collaborations butthe project page states at Collaborations at the time of my writing this  General practice is to have the template marking the current collaboration at the top of the article in question while leaving the candidacy templates on the talk page. --Matilda talk 00:29, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
 * This RfC should go at Wikipedia talk:Template namespace which is the guidline for template usage - it would overule the consensus of this page.  Ry an P os tl et hw ai te  01:00, 17 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Moved - see Wikipedia talk:Template namespace --Matilda talk 01:05, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

RfC concluded
The conversation seems to have died down, so I have updated the page here in a manner I believe to be consistent with the decision: Allow active collaborations to mark the article page, but if the collaboration goes for over twice as long as it is scheduled to, the tag should be removed and the collaboration marked inactive. The wording is not quite the same, as that wording doesn't fit here. --Scott Davis Talk 12:21, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Why is this page about wrestling?
Can someone explain why collaborations are only about wrestling? Xasodfuih (talk) 22:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Dr. Hari Singh Nalwa Scientist
Dr. Hari Singh Nalwa is the President & CEO of American Scientific Publishers (www.aspbs.com) based in Los Angeles, California, USA which he founded in 2000. He belongs to Soop village of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh (UP). He is a citizen of the United States of America.

President and CEO - American Scientific Publishers (www.aspbs.com)
Dr. Nalwa is the President and CEO of American Scientific Publishers (www.aspbs.com). He played a critical role in promoting and defining the field of nanotechnology and is one of the world's leading experts in this research field. He is distinguished around the world as a scientist, businessman, publisher, prolific author, and editor after three decades of vigorous work and dedication.

Early Life
Dr. Nalwa was born into a farmer family in a small remote village Soop of the Baghpat District in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India. Both of his parents (father: Kadam Singh and mother: Sukh Devi) were illiterate. He was born with the name “Hari Singh.” He greatly admired Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837), a Commander-in-Chief of the Khalsa, the army of the Sikh Empire. In high school, he decided to add “Nalwa” (which means tiger) to the end of his name, even though his original last name is “Tomar” therefore, his full name should be “Hari Singh Tomar” (where Tomar is his gotra, or clan).

Education and Work
Dr. Nalwa received a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in bio-sciences (chemistry, zoology, and botany) from the Meerut University in 1974, a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Organic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Roorkee in 1977, and his PhD degree in Polymer Science/Physical Organic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at New Delhi in 1983. His PhD thesis research focused on the electrical conductivity, dielectric properties, thermally stimulated depolarization (TSD) currents, ferroelectric/pyroelectric properties of macromolecular systems including thiourea-based polymers and metallophthalocyanines. Since then, his research activities and professional career have been devoted to the studies of electronic and photonic materials. He started his career as a guest scientist at the Hahn Meitner Institute (HMI) in West Berlin, West Germany (1983–1984), and thereafter moved to the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, California (1984–1987) as a research associate. After a three-year stay at USC, he moved to the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo (1987–1988) to work in the field of nonlinear optics. In 1988, he joined the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Tokyo, Japan, as a lecturer/assistant professor where he researched conducting polymers and organic materials for second-order nonlinear optics and taught some classes (1988–1990). In October 1990, he joined Hitachi Research Laboratory (Omika-cho, Hitachi City, Ibaraki), Hitachi Ltd., Japan (1990–1999), as a staff scientist. He was the first foreigner ever to have a permanent job at Hitachi Ltd. While working at Hitachi Ltd., he was concurrently an honorary visiting professor at IIT Delhi. He resigned from Hitachi Ltd. in 1999 and returned to the United States to provide his children an American education. He worked as the head of department and R&D manager at Ciba Specialty Chemical Corporation (Ciba-Geigy, Switzerland) in Los Angeles, California for a year (1999-2000), thereafter, he resigned to start his own business entitled "American Scientific Publishers" (www.aspbs.com) focused on nanotechnology.

Research Expertise
Dr. Nalwa’s research experience includes ferroelectric polymers, electrically conducting polymers, polymer electrets, nonlinear optical materials for integrated optics, ab initio calculations, electroluminescent materials, low and high dielectric constant materials for microelectronics packaging, organic semiconductors, nanocrystalline and nanostructured materials, Langmuir-Blodgett films, high-temperature resistant polymer composites, epoxy-based photopolymers, rapid modeling, and stereolithography. He has made outstanding contributions to a wide spectrum of research areas from polymer science to materials science to nanotechnology and published many outstanding research papers and books. The "Handbook of Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices", 10-Volume Set edited by Dr. Nalwa was published by Academic Press in 2001.

(1) CONDUCTING POLYMERS: Dr. Nalwa has worked on a variety of electrically conducting polymers including polyacetylene, poly(diacetylene), polypyrrole, polythiophene, polyfuran, polyaniline, and heteroaromatic ladder polymers, their copolymers, and their-based composites. The "Handbook of Organic Conductive Molecules and Polymers" (4-Volume Set, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1997) edited by Dr. Nalwa, is a major reference source that has received much attention from researchers and professionals working in the field of conducting polymers.

(2) NONLINEAR OPTICS: Dr. Nalwa worked for over a decade in the field of nonlinear optics (NLO), focused on the synthesis, characterization, ab initio calculations, and study of second- and third-order NLO properties of organic materials, including aromatic polyureas, polyazine, polythiophene, porphyrazine, metallophthalocyanine, and naphthalocyanine derivatives. The book entitled "Nonlinear Optics of Organic Molecules and Polymers", edited by H. S. Nalwa and S. Miyata, published by CRC Press in 1997, is one of the top reference sources in this research field.

(3) NANOTECHNOLOGY: In 1992, in a collaboration between Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., and Research Institute for Polymers and Textiles at Tsukuba Science City, Dr. Nalwa worked for one year on the synthesis of nano/microcrystals of organic conjugated chromophores. This was the first exposure of Dr. Nalwa to nanostructured materials/nanotechnology when only a handful of scientists around the world were involved in the field of nanotechnology. Thereafter, he has published many outstanding major-reference books, encyclopedias, and review articles focused on emerging new aspects of nanotechnology including toxicological impact of nanomaterials on human health and the environment, applications of nanotechnology in cancer diagnosis and therapy, nano-energy, applications of biomaterials in nanobiotechnology, soft nanomaterials, and nanodrugs, etc. Dr. Nalwa has edited 60 books in the field of nanotechnology. The "Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology" (5 Volumes, Academic Press, San Diego, 2000) edited by Dr. Nalwa, was the first multi-volume handbook ever published in the field of nanotechnology. Likely, the "Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" (25 Volumes, American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, 2004/2011) edited by Dr. Nalwa, is the one and only such major landmark reference work in the world.

Research Publications
Working for over 30 years, Dr. Nalwa has authored over 150 scientific articles, 25 book chapters, 18 patents (Hitachi Ltd., Japan), and 114 scientific books in the fields of nanotechnology, materials science and polymer science mainly focused on functional electronic and photonic materials and their-based device applications. Dr. Nalwa is an international authority and an expert in editing multivolume major reference works, he has written and edited/co-edited 114 (single-volume) scientific books for the scientific community, and he is one of the most cited scientists in the world. His great reputation in the scientific community is evident by a long list of research publications, multivolume scientific books and encyclopedias that he has published in crossdisciplinary research areas of nanotechnology, materials science, polymer science, biological sciences, chemistry, and physics.

114 Scientific Books Edited/Co-edited

 * (1) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Ferroelectric Polymers: Chemistry, Physics and Applications (Marcel Dekker, New York, NY, 1995)


 * (2) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Organic Conductive Molecules and Polymers, 4-Volume Set (John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY, 1997)


 * (3) H. S. Nalwa and S. Miyata (Editors), Nonlinear Optics of Organic Molecules and Polymers (CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1997)


 * (4) S. Miyata and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Organic Electroluminescent Materials and Devices (Gordon & Breach, Switzerland, 1997)


 * (5) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Low and High Dielectric Constant Materials and Their Applications, 2-Volume Set (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 1999)


 * (6) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology, 5-Volume Set (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 1999).
 * Foreword by: Professor George Olah, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (University of Southern California, USA)


 * (7) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Advanced Electronic and Photonic Materials and Devices, 10-Volume Set (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2000).
 * Foreword by: Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics (Harvard University, USA)


 * (8) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Thin Films Materials, 5-Volume Set (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (9) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Surfaces and Interfaces of Materials, 5-Volume Set (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (10) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Advanced Functional Molecules and Polymers, 4-Volume Set (Gordon & Breach, Switzerland, 2001)


 * (11) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Silicon-Based Materials and Devices, 2-Volume Set (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (12) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Photodetectors and Fiber Optics (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (13) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Supramolecular Photosensitive and Electroactive Materials (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (14) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Semiconductors and Semimetals, Vol. 73 (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (15) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Advances in Surface Science, Vol. 38 (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (16) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology - Concise Edition (Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2001)


 * (17) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Magnetic Nanostructures, First Edition (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2002)


 * (18) S. K. Tripathy, J. Kumar, and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Handbook of Polyelectrolytes and Their Applications, 3-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2002).
 * Foreword by: Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (University of Pennsylvania, USA)


 * (19) H. S. Nalwa and L. S. Rohwer (Editors), Handbook of Luminescence, Display Materials and Devices, 3-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2003).


 * Foreword by: Professor Alan J. Heeger, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)


 * (20) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Photochemistry and Photobiology, 4-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2003).


 * Foreword by: Professor Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (University of Louis Pasteur, France)


 * (21) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials and Nanocomposites, 2-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2003)


 * (22) S. Bandopadhyay and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Quantum Dots and Nanowires (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2003)


 * (23) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Nanoclusters and Nanocrystals (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California 2003)


 * (24) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Polymer Optical Fibers (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2004)


 * (25) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 10-Volume Set, Volumes 1-10 (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2004).


 * Foreword by: Professor Richard E. Smalley, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry (Rice University, USA)


 * (26) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Nanostructured Biomaterials and Their Applications in Nanobiotechnology, 2-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2005)


 * (27) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Polymeric Nanostructures and Their Applications, 2-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2007)


 * (28) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Handbook of Organic Electronics and Photonics, 3-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2008)


 * (29) H. S. Nalwa and T. J. Webster (Editors), Cancer Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2008)


 * (30) Y. L. Zhao and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Nanotoxicology: Interactions of Nanomaterials with Biological Systems (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2008)


 * (31) K. Ariga and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Bottom-up Nanofabrication: Supramolecules, Self-Assembly and Organized Films, 6-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (32) N. He and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Biochips Nanotechnology (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (33) A. K. Mohanty, M. Misra, and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Packaging Nanotechnology (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (34) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Magnetic Nanostructures, Second Edition (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (35) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Soft Nanomaterials, 2-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (36) T. Y. Tseng and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Handbook of Nanoceramics and Their Based Nanodevices, 5-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (37) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Nanomaterials for Energy Applications (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (38) Y. Lin and H. S. Nalwa (Editors), Handbook of Electrochemical Nanotechnology, 2-Volume Set (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2009)


 * (39) H. S. Nalwa (Editor), Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 15-Volume Set, Volumes 11-25 (American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, California, 2011)

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Editor-in-Chief and Scholarly Activities
Dr. Nalwa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (www.aspbs.com/jnn), Advanced Science Letters (www.aspbs.com/science), and Advanced Science, Engineering and Medicine (www.aspbs.com/asem). He is well known throughout scientific community for his monumental editorial work on "Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology" (5-Volume Set, Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 1999) which received the "Award of Excellence" from the Association of American Publishers. After the publication of this multivolume handbook, he started the most ambitious publication project of the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in summer 2000 to bring the World's first encyclopedia in the field of nanotechnology. Dr. Nalwa is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines published by John Wiley (1997-2000). He has served on the editorial board of Journal of Macromolecular Science-Physics, Applied Organometallic Chemistry (1993-1999), International Journal of Photoenergy, and Photonics Science News. He has been a referee for many international journals that includes Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Chemistry of Materials, Journal of Materials Science, Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, Journal of Macromolecular Science-Physics, Applied Physics, Materials Research Bulletin, Optical Communications, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology.

Dr. Nalwa helped organize the First International Symposium on the Crystal Growth of Organic Materials (Tokyo,1989) and the Second International Symposium on Phthalocyanines (Edinburgh,1998) under the auspices of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He also proposed a the first conference on porphyrins and phthalocyanines to the scientific community that, in part, was intended to promote public awareness of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, which he founded in 1996 and remained the Editor-in-Chief until December 2000. As a member of the organizing committee, he helped effectuate the First International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, which was held in Dijon, France in 2000. He was on the organizing committee of the BioMEMS and Smart Nanostructures, (December 17 19, 2001, Adelaide, Australia).

Managing Editor
Dr. Nalwa is the managing editor for all scientific/technical/medical journals, encyclopedias, and books at the American Scientific Publishers.

Awards/Honors
Dr. Nalwa received the "Award of Excellence" from the Association of American Publishers for his editorial work on "Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology" (5-Volume Set, Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 1999). The World's first Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (10-Volume Set, American Scientific Publishers, Los Angeles, USA, 2004) edited by Dr. Nalwa received the "2005 Best Reference Work Award" of the American Society for Engineering Education (USA) and was also selected as the "2005 Outstanding Academic Title" by the CHOICE magazine from the American Library Association (USA).

Dr. Nalwa has been cited in the "Who’s Who in Science and Engineering", "Who’s Who in America", "Who’s Who in the World", "Dictionary of International Biography" and "2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century Order of Excellence and “Top 100 Scientists-2008” (International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England).

Scholarships
Dr. Nalwa has been awarded a number of prestigious fellowships including National Merit Scholarship – Government of India (1970-1974), Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Fellowship – India (1978-1982), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Senior Fellowship –India (1982-1983), NEC Fellowship – Japan (1988-1990) and Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship–Japan (1988-1990).