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IOP Publishing thrilled to win the ALPSP award for innovating the peer review process
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has been awarded the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publisher’s (ALPSP) inaugural Impact Award for being the first publisher to implement both double anonymous and transparent peer review across all their owned open access journals. After being shortlisted, IOPP’s initiative was chosen by ALPSP members and a judging panel and awarded […]
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IOP Publishing and the Japan Society of Applied Physics convert Applied Physics Express to fully gold OA
IOP Publishing (IOPP) and the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) announce that Applied Physics Express (APEX) is to become fully open access (OA). From January 2024, all articles published in APEX, the journal devoted to rapid dissemination of new findings in applied physics, will be immediately and openly accessible for anyone to read. The […]
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Poor water quality disproportionately affects socially vulnerable communities
A new study published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters examines the links between drinking water quality violations and social vulnerability in the United States, revealing that these violations disproportionately affect the most vulnerable communities. Approximately 70% of the population affected ranked in the highest social vulnerability category, with many different social parameters, beyond income, linked to different drinking water quality violations. The study, […]
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IOP Publishing appoints Dr. David Gevaux as Chief Editor of Reports on Progress in Physics
Appointment comes as the esteemed journal expands to accept original research submissions and introduces an OA option. IOP Publishing (IOPP) has appointed Dr. David Gevaux as the first Chief Editor of Reports on Progress in Physics. Taking up the post from the 4th of September, Dr. Gevaux will lead on ambitious plans for the journal, […]
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Ex-serviceman discusses the benefits of publishing cranial nerve research open access
Stephan Blanz, ex-serviceman and data engineer at the University of Wisconsin – Madison has recently published a paper about activating and targeting the vagus nerve, one of our twelve cranial nerves that are connected to the brain. Blanz has published his paper openly for anyone to read in the Journal of Neural Engineering at no […]
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Cattle farming expansion and unchecked climate change would expose more than 1 billion cows to heat stress
Livestock farming will become increasingly difficult in many tropical countries if emissions remain high – but rapidly cutting emissions and limiting cattle expansion would reduce the impacts by 50-84%. More than 1 billion cows around the world will experience heat stress by the end of the century if carbon emissions are high and environmental protection […]
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IOP Publishing and the University of Texas System drive forward open access to North American research with new transformative agreement
The University of Texas System (UT System) – one of the US’s largest public university systems – have established a three-year transformative agreement (TA) with society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP). The agreement between IOPP and the UT System allows affiliated researchers to publish unlimited OA articles in IOPP’s journals and most partner journals with the […]
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Carbon emitting ecosystems and how open access makes research more equitable, transparent, and impactful
Our study indicates a tipping point in the next few decades, where the Arctic-Boreal area in North America, which is full of coniferous forests, mires and lakes will start to emit carbon rather than absorb it. This information is crucial for policymakers who need to take action to mitigate climate change. Our work research evaluates […]
