Increasing recognition and impact for authors and reviewers
We continued to highlight and promote the excellent work of our reviewers by presenting our second annual Reviewer of the Year awards and integrating further with Publons to allow reviewers to claim credit for their work.
Reviewer awards
38 reviewers received a Reviewer of the Year Award. 1289 reviewers received Outstanding Reviewer certificates.
publons
10,000 reviewers claimed 32,000 reviews for IOP titles in Publons, with an 8.4/10 satisfaction rating for using the service.
ADDING VALUE, DELIVERING IMPACT
In 2018, we saw 562 research articles featured in the media based on our press releases, with a reach of 67 million readers worldwide.
Top-cited author awards
We launched a new award in 2018 to recognise top-cited authors from China and India for work published across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio from 2015 to 2017. The winners were authors of the top 1% of the most-cited research papers within six subject categories. Winning review authors were those whose work was in the top 10 most-cited reviews published in the last three years.
Chinese researchers are at the forefront of significant scientific breakthroughs, and India’s influence and status in the fields of international research continues to grow. It’s important for us to recognise the contribution of outstanding scientists from these two countries.
Antonia Seymour, Publishing Director
Antonia Seymour, Publishing Director, presenting awards to authors at the Chinese Physical Society conference in Dalian.
Prabu Desikan (left), Regional Sales Director South Asia, presents an award at an IOP Publishing Academy workshop.