Publishing in numbers
and impact of our journals
46%
percentage of all journal articles published OA on our platform, up from 41% the previous year
28,977
total number of articles published
77.6m
total number of downloads to articles on IOPscience up by 7% year on year (including Conference Series)
1,058,777
total citations of content published on IOPscience
15,416
articles published in partner journals
30,393
number of reviewers who have completed a review for one or more IOPP owned journals
22,493
22,493 proceedings articles published across 420 conference volumes
7%
Physics World grew its registered users by 7% to a total of 85,000 at the end of the year
100%
of APC income collected from retracted papers donated to Research4Life
Our global reach
Top countries publishing articles with IOPP
Top 10 countries/regions by article downloads
100%
of APC income collected from retracted papers donated to Research4Life.
77.6 million downloads
In 2023, more than 77.6 million articles were downloaded from IOPscience, increasing the usage of our published research by 7%.
Impact of our journals
The impact of the work that we publish remains strong. More than 2,000 of the articles that we published in 2023 featured in the top 10% of cited research for the physical sciences, and 16 of our journals featured in the top quartile of their relevant subject category.
Publication highlights
First compelling evidence for gravitational waves
For the first time, researchers using pulsar timing arrays have found evidence for the long sought-after gravitational wave background. The study was published in our partner journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
