About Us

About Us

Maximum Academic Press (MAP) is an independent publishing company with focus on publishing golden open access academic journals. From 2020 to now, MAP has successfully launched 30 academic journals which cover the research fields of agriculture, biology, environmental sciences, medicine, statistics, engineering and humanities and social sciences.

Professor Zong-Ming (Max) Cheng, chief editor and founder of MAP, who earned his Ph.D from Cornell University in 1991 and worked as an Assistant, Associate and Professor at North Dakota State University and University of Tennessee for over 30 years. Prior to establishing MAP, Dr. Cheng launched Horticulture Research (initially published by Nature Publishing Group) in 2014, Plant Phenomics (published by American Association of Advancement of Sciences, AAAS) in 2019, and BioDesign Research (published by AAAS) in 2020, and served as the Editor-in-Chief, Co-Editors-in-Chief, and the executive editor, respectively. Dr. Cheng wishes to apply all successful experiences in launching and managing these three high quality journals to MAP-published journals with highest quality and ethics standards.

Our Mission and Goal

The mission of MAP is to bridge science and society by launching and managing academic journals of its own or by cooperating with academic institutions, scholarly societies and prominent scientists.

MAP supports "open science" goal by publishing all articles in golden open access, allowing maximum dissemination of scientific information to all professional and the global citizens to advance science/technology for our quality of life. All MAP journals adhere to the publication ethics and malpractice policies outlined by COPE .

MAP has signed DORA to show its support to advancing the creation of improved and highly efficient approaches for evaluating research. We also joined the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) Publishers Compact, which is designed to inspire action among publishers, and accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Statement

MAP is an inclusive, equal opportunity company. We promote hard-working and respective culture and help advance careers for all our team members. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds, including, but not limited to, age, gender, religion, culture, ethnic group, to work together to advance science and technology and to improve societal justice. We encourage open communications and value inclusiveness of our team members and believe that the diversity is a strength. We pledge to fight any forms of discrimination to an individual, institution, or a country in publishing practice. For specific questions, suggestions, or feedback, please contact our DEI director, Yvette Li.

Partners

MAP works with our partners to improve the quality of services.