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Residential exposure to petroleum refining could be related to strokes in the southern United States
A new study has revealed that exposure to pollutants from petroleum refineries has a strong link to stroke rates across the Southern United States. The results were published today in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters. The southern United States (US) has a high concentration of petroleum production and refining (PPR). This process emits multiple […]
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IOP Publishing celebrates most influential Chinese and Indian papers with its ‘Top-cited paper awards’
For the fifth consecutive year, IOP Publishing (IOPP) is celebrating the significance of Chinese and Indian research with its ‘top-cited paper awards’. The awards recognise the strong research presence Chinese and Indian researchers have across the global scientific community and their valuable contribution to Physics. The awards are presented to corresponding authors from China and […]
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IOP Publishing’s response to the OSTP memorandum on Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
We share the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s (OSTP) ambition of making research immediately accessible to the public. Indeed, open science is a priority for us, and we are proud of the progress we have made. Already this year more than half the articles we have published from US-based researchers are open to the […]
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IOP Publishing’s open access Environmental Research journal series expands with the opening of the first issue of Environmental Research: Ecology
IOP Publishing (IOPP) has published the first articles in the open access journal, Environmental Research: Ecology featuring research from a number of world-renowned ecologists. The journal represents one of three new interdisciplinary titles opening in 2022 that will extend IOPP’s Environmental Research series to six open access journals. The full suite of environmental journals provide […]
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Exposure to past temperature variability may help forests cope with climate change
Understanding how forests are responding to climate change is critical to planning effective forest management and climate policy. A new study out today in the first issue of Environmental Research: Ecology, published by IOP Publishing, assessed effects of past and current climate variability on global forest productivity. The work highlights sensitive regions where forests may […]
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IOP Publishing extends unlimited open access offering in the US
In support of the transition toward open access (OA), IOP Publishing (IOPP) has agreed five more unlimited OA publishing agreements with research institutions in the United States (US). The read and publish agreements will enable the University of Florida, North Carolina State University, Rowan University, Mount Holyoke College and Olin College of Engineering to publish […]
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Lack of grants from funding agencies biggest barrier to OA publishing in the physical sciences, study finds
Findings are from a new global study ‘OA in physics: researcher perspectives’ commissioned by leading learned society physics publishers Over half (53%) of physical science researchers want to publish open access (OA) but 62% say a lack of monies from funding agencies prevents them from doing so. The finding comes from a new global study […]
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Letting go of the way we worked pre-pandemic
As offices have started to open up, Antonia Seymour talks about how not being bound by location means we need to re-think how we work. Hybrid working has been hailed as the future of work with lots of organisations moving towards a part-home, part-office mix in the hope that it will give their workforce the […]
