The family business was founded in 1890 in Berlin, when Samuel Karger decided to launch a publishing company devoted entirely to medicine and science.
Recognizing the medical professionals’ need for compact surveys of the state of the art of important fields Samuel Karger created a series of reviews.
Samuel Karger was also amongst the first to foresee the demand for specialized journals.
The first was founded in 1893: ‘Dermatologische Zeitschrift’ (now
Dermatology).
The company soon enjoyed a reputation for high technical production standards and published the works of eminent scientists such as Herman Oppenheim and Sigmund Freud.
By 1930, Samuel Karger could list more than 850 titles that had been produced under his direction.
Today, the company employs more than 200 people at the Basel headquarters and has a worldwide network of branch offices and distribution centers, and the publishing house produces close to
80 scientific journals and about 150 serial
and non-serial book titles and supplement or themed journal issues per year, primarily in English.
All journals and most of the books are also available in electronic format, since Karger was among the first to recognize the potential of the new media for publishing.

• Journals
• Books
• E-books Collection