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New study investigates the important role of Tambora eruption in the 1816 ‘year without a summer’
A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European ‘year without a summer’ of 1816. It found that the observed cold conditions were almost impossible without the eruption, and the wet conditions would have been less likely. 1816 recorded exceptionally […]
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Study offers verdict for China’s efforts on coal emissions
Researchers from China, France and the USA have evaluated China’s success in stemming emissions from its coal-fired power plants (CPPs). CPPs are one of the main contributors to air pollution in China, and their proliferation over the last 20 years has had significant impacts on air quality and public health. These impacts led authorities to […]
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IOP Publishing award for top cited Indian authors
Top cited authors from India are being recognised for the significance of their work with an IOP Publishing award. The award is for corresponding authors from India, for work published across the whole IOP Publishing journal portfolio in the past three years (2016-2018). The winners are authors of the top one per cent of the […]
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Paris Agreement hampered by inconsistent pledges, new research finds
Some countries’ Paris Climate Agreement pledges may not be as ambitious as they appear, a new study has found. The Paris Agreement takes a bottom-up approach to tackling climate change, with countries submitting pledges in the form of nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to greenhouse gas emissions. However, writing today in Environmental Research Letters, researchers from […]
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Top cited Chinese authors receive IOP Publishing award
Top cited authors from China are being recognised for the significance of their work with an IOP Publishing award. The award is presented to corresponding authors from China, for work published in both IOP Publishing and its partners’ journals from 2016 to 2018. The winners are authors of the top one per cent of the […]
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New energy and biomedical journals publish their first papers
The first content has been published in two IOP Publishing’s journals portfolio – Progress in Energy (PRGE) and Progress in Biomedical Engineering (PRGB). The two journals were launched to cater for the needs of specific research communities, providing a platform for knowledge sharing and offering researchers the opportunity to collaborate and shape the future direction […]
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Bringing transparent peer review to the physical sciences and beyond
Publons and ScholarOne, both part of the Web of Science Group (a Clarivate Analytics company), have entered into a new partnership with IOP Publishing to introduce the industry’s first cross-publisher, scalable transparent peer review workflows across some of their leading journals in the physical sciences and beyond. Transparent peer review shows the complete peer review […]
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Winners of IPEM’s international journal prizes for 2019 announced
The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine has announced the winners of awards for the best papers in two of its international journals. A paper to better understand the longitudinal characteristics of Parkinson’s disease won the Martin Black Prize for 2019, which is awarded for the best paper published in Physiological Measurement. Meanwhile, a […]
