IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with a number of CNUDST to enable a transition towards open access publishing.
Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.
Please note
Funding is subject to librarian funding approval at acceptance stage. If for any reason funding is declined, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revert to subscription publication type at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.
Instituts supérieurs des études technologiques
Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche scientifique
Université de Carthage
Université de Gabès
Université de Gafsa
Université de Jendouba
Université de Kairouan
Université de La Manouba
Université de Monastir
Université de Sfax
Université de Sousse
Université de Tunis
Université de Tunis El Manar
Within IOP Publishing, we perform visual and technology-assisted checks on submission to detect the inappropriate presentation of images. Any changes made to images such as changes to the contrast, colour or brightness must be declared during submission and within the text of the manuscript. Alterations made to the images should not affect the information illustrated in the figures and should not change any image to the extent a viewer would reach a different conclusion because of the edits. Images should always have clear captions, with information such as scale bar length included where necessary.
Changes made to the brightness, contrast, magnification, etc, of one image in a figure should be applied equally to all images of the same type in the same figure, and should be declared unambiguously in the text, ideally in the caption.
Editing images for aesthetics/beautification should be avoided unless necessary. If any form of image processing is legitimately required for the interpretation of the data, the software and the enhancement technique must be declared in the methods section of the manuscript. It is good practice when images have been substantially processed to provide the original unedited images in the Supplementary Information, or in an accessible repository linked to from the paper.
All image manipulation concerns will be investigated by the Research Integrity team within IOP Publishing according to COPE guidelines. If authors fail to provide original images and address our concerns, the submission will be rejected if still in peer review. If the paper has already been published, we will take corrective action as appropriate.
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with COUPERIN in France to enable a transition to open access publishing.
Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D in the title list of eligible journals.
Eligible insitutions
Avignon Université
Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA)*
CY Cergy Paris Université
École centrale de Lyon*
École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers*
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon*
Institut Laue-Langevin
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)*
Sorbonne Université*
Université Côte d’Azur*
Université Paris Cité
Université PSL*
Université de Bordeaux*
Université de Montpellier*
Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Université de Rennes
Université de Strasbourg
Université de technologie de Troyes*
Université de Toulouse*
Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne
*Please note funding is subject to librarian funding approval at acceptance stage. If for any reason funding is declined, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revert to subscription publication type at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.
CRediT is a 14 role taxonomy that can be used to describe the key types of contributions typically made to the production and publication of research output. IOP Publishing offers authors the chance to declare what specific contribution they have made on their article, based on the CRediT taxonomy. If accepted for publication, these roles will be displayed in the published article.
Conceptualization – Ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims.
Data curation – Management activities to annotate (produce metadata), scrub data and maintain research data (including software code, where it is necessary for interpreting the data itself) for initial use and later re-use.
Formal analysis – Application of statistical, mathematical, computational, or other formal techniques to analyze or synthesize study data.
Funding acquisition – Acquisition of the financial support for the project leading to this publication.
Investigation – Conducting a research and investigation process, specifically performing the experiments, or data/evidence collection.
Methodology – Development or design of methodology; creation of models.
Project administration – Management and coordination responsibility for the research activity planning and execution.
Resources – Provision of study materials, reagents, materials, patients, laboratory samples, animals, instrumentation, computing resources, or other analysis tools.
Software – Programming, software development; designing computer programs; implementation of the computer code and supporting algorithms; testing of existing code components.
Supervision – Oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution, including mentorship external to the core team.
Validation – Verification, whether as a part of the activity or separate, of the overall replication/reproducibility of results/experiments and other research outputs.
Visualization – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically visualization/data presentation.
Writing – original draft – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work, specifically writing the initial draft (including substantive translation).
Writing – review & editing – Preparation, creation and/or presentation of the published work by those from the original research group, specifically critical review, commentary or revision – including pre- or post-publication stages
Who qualifies for authorship?
The ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following 4 criteria:
Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
Drafting the work or reviewing it critically for important intellectual content; AND
Final approval of the version to be published; AND
Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.
Not all CRediT contributions mean someone qualifies for authorship. IOP Publishing follows the ICMJE guidelines, which says “Examples of activities that alone (without other contributions) do not qualify a contributor for authorship are acquisition of funding; general supervision of a research group or general administrative support; and writing assistance, technical editing, language editing, and proofreading.” If a contributor does not qualify for authorship, they should be listed in the acknowledgements rather than in the author list.
All co-authors will be able to see the CRediT roles they have been assigned throughout the peer review process. If an author disagrees with the CRediT role(s) that have been assigned, this should be brought to the attention of the journal and the submission will be sent back to the authors for agreement, correction and resubmission by the authors. This will halt the peer review process and will not resume until the corrected manuscript is resubmitted. The journal will not arbitrate in matters of disputed contributions, as per the COPE guidelines. If the authors cannot come to an agreement, IOP Publishing will escalate the dispute to the institution(s) concerned for a decision.
The ICMJE guidelines also state “It is the collective responsibility of the authors, not the journal to which the work is submitted, to determine that all people named as authors meet all four criteria; it is not the role of journal editors to determine who qualifies or does not qualify for authorship or to arbitrate authorship conflicts.” Therefore, in the event of a dispute between authors about contributions, the journal will not arbitrate. Instead IOP Publishing will escalate the dispute to the institution(s) concerned for a decision.
How to assign CRediT roles to authors
When you are getting ready to submit an article, make sure that you have discussed and agreed with your co-authors and contributors the roles that individuals have played.
It is the submitting author’s responsibility to assign CRediT roles across the author list.
Add the author and click on ‘Provide CRediT Contribution’.
Tick the relevant roles in the list and define what level of contribution was made – lead, equal or supporting.
Click “save changes” at the bottom of the page.
The roles will then be visible on the manuscript information page.
Points to note
CRediT roles are optional – We do not mandate any or all authors having CRediT roles, however it is strongly encouraged;
Individuals can have several roles – it is common that researchers will have made several contributions to a research output (e.g. article) and can therefore be assigned to more than one CRediT role;
The same role can be assigned to multiple individuals – a specific CRediT role can also be assigned to multiple individuals;
Some roles won’t apply – each research output is different; if specific CRediT roles are not relevant to a particular output, they do not need to be included;
Some contributors may not qualify for authorship –if a contributor does not qualify for authorship (link to our policy), they should not be added to the author list, instead they can be listed in the acknowledgements;
Degree of contribution is optional – where multiple individuals serve in the same role, the degree of contribution can optionally be specified as ‘lead’, ‘equal’, or ‘supporting’.
At a recent conference, we asked some of our Editorial Board members from the Environmental Research Series what it is like to be on an IOP Publishing Editorial Board. Watch the video to find out what they had to say:
Find out more about the roles
Editor-in-Chief
Editors-in-Chief work with the Publisher of the journal to set and implement the editorial direction and vision of the journal, and maintain the agreed standards of peer review and research integrity. They provide leadership and management of the Editorial Board, chairing Editorial Board Meetings and sharing the journal’s vision and goals.
Executive Editor
Executive Editors give their journal its scientific authority. Their role is to provide intelligence on the latest scientific developments in the field, and to implement the commissioning plan.
Editorial Board Member
Editorial Board Members ensure that the content published in the journal meets the journal’s quality standards by providing consultative peer review support, aided by their knowledge of the journal’s strategy.
All members of Editorial Boards serve as the public face and champion of the journal, promoting it within the research community.
Hear from existing IOP Publishing Editorial Board members about their experiences.
Editor-in-Chief – Dr Michael Thorne
“I have been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Radiological Protection for about 25 years and I have been Editor-in-Chief for the last 3 years. This is a Partner Society Journal with the Society for Radiological Protection and I find the collaboration with IOPP very fruitful in helping the Society fulfil its role in advancing the science and art of radiological protection.
A particularly enjoyable aspect of Board membership is the opportunity to stimulate the publication of papers on subjects across the whole spectrum of radiological protection, and the chance to interact with other members of the Editorial Board with a wide range of backgrounds and experience.
Perhaps my favourite part of the role is reviewing all the papers published during the year with a view to identifying a shortlist of those that are both innovative and useful. This then gives me an opportunity to write an editorial drawing attention to these papers and discussing their implications.
As I approach the end of my career, I hope that I can convey to readers the continuing opportunity of seeking innovative solutions to the multi-disciplinary challenges that arise in radiological protection.” – Dr Michael Thorne, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Radiological Protection
Editorial Board Member – Dr Ayat-Allah Bouramdane
“What motivated me to join the Editorial Board of Environmental Research: Energy was the diversity of the team, we have members from different universities and different countries which means we have diverse voices, with different ages, disciplines, and experience. This is very crucial for the multi-disciplinary fields of Environmental Research: Energy.
We have members with industry and policy making experience, which is important as it provides practical insights into how academic research aligns with real-world applications. We also have members from developing and emerging countries so that we can provide perspective on the particular needs of our community. In addition, I really appreciate the spirit of collaboration, it seems like a shared mission.
I like the mutual respect between editorial members and being part of the Editorial Board keeps me up-to-date with emerging topics and can open doors for collaboration and to a wide network of experience.” – Dr Ayat-Allah Bouramdane, Editorial Board Member, Environmental Research: Energy
Applicants must have relevant subject and editorial experience appropriate to the role they’re applying for, as well as experience as an active reviewer and being an author on peer-reviewed papers. Additionally, sufficient time to dedicate to the role, and to be eager to contribute to the development of the journal, as well as promote it within their networks.
Applicants from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.
How to apply?
Please see individual listings for application requirements.
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) to enable a transition to open access publishing.
Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAV) at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
What’s included?
Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
The Research Excellence Framework 2029 Open Access Policy (REF 2029) applies to outputs of UK publicly funded research published from 1 January 2026. In-scope journal articles and conference proceedings articles are required to be published and/or deposited in an open access manner to be eligible for submission to REF 2029.
The simplest way to achieve compliance with REF 2029 is to publish your journal article or conference proceedings article on a Gold Open Access basis. All conference proceedings published by IOP Publishing are published on a Gold OA basis under a CC BY licence. Most IOP Publishing journals are either fully Gold OA or provide the option to publish on a Gold OA basis. Authors subject to REF 2029 should therefore have the option to publish their article in a compliant manner with IOP Publishing.
Publishing on a Gold OA basis is made even simpler by the comprehensive Transformative Agreement we have with JISC Collections. This allows authors affiliated with a large number of UK institutions to publish on a Gold OA basis free of charge. Visit this page to check whether your institution is covered by the JISC Collections TA.
If your article is published on a subscription basis, you will need to comply with the journal’s author rights and article sharing policy, including, where relevant, an embargo period on sharing the Accepted Manuscript. Where the journal requires a 12 month embargo on the sharing of the Accepted Manuscript, you may be able to exempt your article from the REF 2029 open access embargo policy provided the chosen journal is deemed the most appropriate journal for your work. We advise that you consult your institution’s REF support team or office to determine your institution’s policy on seeking exemptions before submitting your article.
If you have any questions about REF 2029 compliance for your IOP Publishing submission, please contact the journal.
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with the Institute for Basic Science to enable a transition to open access publishing.
Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at the Institute for Basic Science at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.
What’s included?
Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
4 articles per calendar year, will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves.
Please note
Funding is subject to librarian funding approval at acceptance stage. If for any reason funding is declined, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revert to subscription publication type on journals that offer hybrid publications options, at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.
