Year: 2021

IOP Publishing today announces the creation of one of the largest collections of academic journals, books and conference series in physical sciences on the MyScienceWork (MSW) platform. The research management tech provider will index IOPP’s content making it available to the academic community.   Effective as of December 2021, the partnership permits supplementary access to a comprehensive portfolio...

The Electrochemical Society (ECS), together with IOP Publishing, is launching two new, fully open access (OA) journals. ECS Advances and ECS Sensors Plus add to the Society’s journal family and provide the research community with a diverse suite of interconnected journals sharing impactful research across the world.    ECS Advances delivers a platform for research across all areas of electrochemical and solid-state science and technology research, with the broadest dissemination of all journals in the field. The ECS Advances journal will...

Physics World today announces the 2021 Physics Breakthrough of the Year. This year’s award goes to two independent teams for entangling two macroscopic vibrating drumheads, thereby advancing our understanding of the divide between quantum and classical systems. The winners are Mika Sillanpää and colleagues at Aalto University, Finland and the University of New South Wales, Australia,...

A call to action: the role of physics in delivering the global green economy    The Institute of Physics (IOP) has signed the following statement together with national physical societies around globe: According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), “a green economy is defined as low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive[1].” Furthermore, the Organization...

For the first time, IOP Publishing (IOPP) together with 14 of the world’s largest and most reputable academic publishers have come together to explain the most important research on climate change to the public. The Climate Change Knowledge Cooperative, led by research communication companies Kudos and Impact Science, is a platform that provides easy-to-comprehend research summaries to help everyone...

Major new study reveals that aviation could consume up to one-sixth of the remaining temperature budget to limit warming to 1.5 ˚C Aviation is responsible for more global warming than implied by its carbon footprint alone. According to new research published today, aviation could consume up one-sixth of the remaining temperature budget required to limit...

Enabling the global scientific community to connect virtually  IOP Publishing has announced the winners of its #IOPPposter competition. Now in its second year, the poster competition, which was hosted on Twitter, opened-up a lively online discussion about the latest research in emerging areas of interest.   And the winners are…  Atomic and molecular – Andrea Byekwaso  Biomedical engineering – Jannis Born  Engineering – Tomas...

Responding today to the chancellor’s comprehensive spending review, Paul Hardaker, group chief executive officer of the Institute of Physics, said:   “Investing in science and innovation doesn’t just help the economy and create jobs, it helps train the next generation, develops the skills of the workforce, and allows more people to benefit from the opportunities that...

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure organisations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of abstracts. IOPP will deposit abstracts of their scholarly communications with Crossref, the not-for-profit Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration agency bringing together abstracts in a common format in one searchable...

New research shows the scientific consensus has strengthened since 2009 Scientific support for the link between human activity and climate change has strengthened to the extent that there is now near universal agreement. Whereas in 1996, reports hedged statements with phrases such as “the balance of evidence suggests…” (Houston et al 1996), this evolved to...

We are proud to announce that we have signed Publishing Declares, a sustainability pledge with 39 other founding signatories from across the industry led by the Publishers Association. The purpose of Publishing Declares is to raise awareness of the sustainability issues most relevant to the UK book and journal publishing industry; to aid the discovery...

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching three new, fully open access (OA) journals, extending the publisher’s Environmental Research series. IOPP’s Environmental Research Series now comprises of six titles that collectively address all major areas of environmental science.  Environmental Research: Health (ERH) and Environmental Research: Climate (ERCL) will both open submissions from today. The third new journal, Environmental Research: Ecology (ERE) will open for submissions later in...