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  • Latest Impact Factor news

    The 2014 Impact Factors, published by Thomson Reuters, once again show significant growth for journals published by IOP Publishing (IOP). Jamie Hutchins, Publishing Director of IOP said: “This year’s results are a measure of the quality and influence of the journals published by IOP and our partners and show that researchers who publish with us […]

  • Cockroach-inspired robot uses body streamlining to negotiate obstacles

    Researchers at University of California, Berkeley have taken inspiration from the cockroach to create a robot that can use its body shape to manoeuvre through a densely cluttered environment. Fitted with the characteristic rounded shell of the discoid cockroach, the running robot can perform a roll manoeuvre to slip through gaps between grass-like vertical beam […]

  • Photo | Left to right: Jeff Bond, Sharice Collins, Kathleen Lehman.

    Sharice Collins awarded 2015 PAM Achievement Award

    The PAM Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) has chosen Sharice Collins, IOP Publishing's Vice President of Marketing, as the recipient of their annual Achievement Award.

  • IOP Publishing appoints Greg Schraft as Senior Regional Corporate Sales Manager

    Greg Schraft has been appointed as Senior Regional Corporate Sales Manager at IOP Publishing. Reporting to Mark Sauter, Vice President, Global Corporate Sales, Greg will take responsibility for corporate customers in Eastern US and Latin America. He will maintain relationships with customers and develop journals sales in these privately funded, for-profit organizations. Greg brings with […]

  • New format for 95,000 articles to deliver enhanced reading experience

    A couple of years ago we launched the article evolutionTM programme designed to improve the online delivery of our research articles, making all our new content going forward available in an enhanced HTML view, in addition to the standard PDF. As well as publishing in this way going forward, we are also keen to invest […]

  • SEM image of microneedle arrays © IOP Publishing

    Scientists pioneer 3D-printed drug delivering micro-needles

    Researchers have developed a new technique to produce a 3D ‘micro-printed’ array of needles capable of drug delivery. The technique would offer a pain-free drug delivery device that would allow drugs to diffuse within the body as the biomaterial device degrades in the body. This offers treatments for a wide range of diseases, including melanoma […]

  • In October’s Physics World: Taking the rigour of physics to the netherworld…

    A handful of scientists are combining their favourite hobby with their day job, to form the emerging field of “speleophysics” – exploring how underground caves form, evolve and move water from one place to another. Writing in October the 2015 issue of Physics World magazine Stephen Ornes describes how a small group of physicists from […]

  • Congratulations to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics laureates

    After all the recent excitement and speculation about who will be crowned the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, the wait is over! IOP Publishing congratulates Takaaki Kajita in Japan and Arthur B. McDonald in Canada on becoming the latest Nobel Prize laureates. The scientists were awarded for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, […]