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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.

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What’s it like to be on an IOP Publishing Editorial Board?

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 – 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.” – Ayat-Allah Bouramdane, Editorial Board Member, Environmental Research: Energy

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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.

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Open Editorial Board Positions

Vacancies for Editorial Board Member positions

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.

If you are interested in applying for a role listed below, submit your application via this form.

Please send any queries to: EditorialBoards@ioppublishing.org

Current vacancies

Editor-in-Chief, Inverse Problems

  • Applications close: 18th May 2025
  • NB Please send applications to EditorialBoards@ioppublishing.org.

Editor-in-Chief, Plasma Sources Science and Technology

  • Applications close: 18th May 2025
  • NB Please send applications to EditorialBoards@ioppublishing.org.

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

  • Applications close: 26th May 2025
  • Please send applications to EditorialBoards@ioppublishing.org

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Physics: Energy

  • Applications close: open-ended
  • People based in the Global South are particularly encouraged to apply.

Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning: Health

  • Applications close: open-ended

Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning: Engineering

  • Applications close: open-ended

Editorial Board Member, Machine Learning: Earth

  • Applications close: open-ended

Find out more about the different types of Editorial Board roles

Researchers from Slovakia

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
  • Included journals are those in lists A, B, and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub

REF 2029 Open Access Policy

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.

Researchers from South Korea

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
  • Included journals are those in lists A, B, C. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.
  • 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.

You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

Researchers from Peru

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 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 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú 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
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub

Researchers from institutions within China

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences 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?
• A limited number of articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
Once the article limit has been reached, a 10% discount on APCs is available to eligible authors that wish to publish open access. Just enter “CAS Author Discount” in the article charging tool on receipt of your invoice.
• Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A and B. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Eligible institutions
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Electrical Engineering
Hefei Institutes of Physical Science
Institute of High Energy Physics
Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences
Institute of Mechanics
Institute of Metals Research
Institute of Microelectronics
Institute of Modern Physics
National Center for NanoScience and Technology
National Astronomical Observatories
Institute of Optics and Electronics
Institute of Physics
Institute of Process Engineering
Institute of Semiconductors
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology
Shanghai Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics
ShanghaiTech University
Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics

Celebrating the impact of research published through the Swiss transformative agreement in 2023

The open access articles featured in this celebratory collection have been selected for the great impact they have achieved in such a short period of time.

From achieving high downloads and citations to receiving significant media coverage, these papers show how our TA in Switzerland is increasing the visibility and impact of scientific research.

Join your fellow researchers who are shaping the future of science, and your articles could also be featured in news outlets such as The Guardian, Radio Télévision Suisse and Phys.org.

Find out if your institution is participating in this agreement to make sure your next paper gets the greatest exposure.

Is your institution not currently part of our CSAL agreement? You can recommend a transformative agreement to your librarian here.

 

 

Read the Swiss articles making an impact across our journal portfolio


Paper  |  Open Access
Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs
Michele Maggiore, Université de Genève et al
2023 JCAP. 07 (2023)068 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/068


Paper  |  Open Access
Understanding the growth mechanism of BaZrS3 chalcogenide perovskite thin films from sulfurized oxide precursors
Santhanu Panikar Ramanandan, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA) et al
2023 J. Phys. Energy. 5 014013 https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/aca9fe


Topical Review |  Open Access
Sustainable scale-up of negative emissions technologies and practices: where to focus
Selene Cobo, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) et al
2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 023001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acacb3


Paper  |  Open Access
A robust estimator of mutual information for deep learning interpretability
Davide Piras, Université de Genève et al
2023 Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 4 025006 https://doi.org/10.1088/2632-2153/acc444


Paper  |  Open Access
CosmoGridV1: a simulated 𝗐CDM theory prediction for map-level cosmological inference
Tomasz Kacprzak, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) et al
2023 JCAP. 02 (2023)050 https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/02/050


Paper  |  Open Access
Effects of the oxygen source configuration on the superconducting properties of internally-oxidized internal-Sn Nb3Sn wires
G Bovone, Université de Genève et al
2023 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 36 095018 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/aced25


Paper |  Open Access
Characterization of LiF:Mg,Ti thermoluminescence detectors in low-LET proton beams at ultra-high dose rates
S Motta, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) et al
2023 Phys. Med. Biol. 68 045017 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/acb634


Paper  |  Open Access
Experimental study of stability, quench propagation and detection methods on 15 kA sub-scale HTS fusion conductors in SULTAN
N Bykovskiy, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) et al
2023 Supercond. Sci. Technol. 36 034002 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/acb17b


Letter  |  Open Access
Strategic uses for ancillary bioenergy in a carbon-neutral and fossil-free 2050 European energy system
Fei Wu, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) et al
2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 014019 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aca9e1


Letter  |  Open Access
Temporal hydrological drought clustering varies with climate and land-surface processes
Manuela I Brunner and Kerstin Stahl, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH)
2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 034011 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acb8ca


Paper  |  Open Access
Inverse problem for a nonlocal diffuse optical tomography equation
Philipp Zimmermann, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH)
2023 Inverse Problems. 39 094001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6420/ace4ed


Paper  |  Open Access
Multiparametric non-linear TENS modulation to integrate intuitive sensory feedback
Vittoria Bucciarelli, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) et al
2023 J. Neural Eng. 20 036026 https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/acd4e8


Perspective  |  Open Access
Neuromorphic bioelectronic medicine for nervous system interfaces: from neural computational primitives to medical applications
Elisa Donati and Giacomo Indiveri, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH)
2023 Prog. Biomed. Eng. 5 013002 https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1091/acb51c


Letter  |  Open Access
Ocean acidification in emission-driven temperature stabilization scenarios: the role of TCRE and non-CO2 greenhouse gases
Jens Terhaar, Universität Bern et al
2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 18 024033 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acaf91


Paper  |  Open Access
The implementation of thermal and UV nanoimprint lithography for selective area epitaxy
Antonia Hager, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne et al
2023 Nanotechnology. 34 445301 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/acea87


Paper  |  Open Access
Assessing sustainability hotspots in the production of paper-based printed electronics
Akshat Sudheshwar, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology (EMPA) et al
2023 Flex. Print. Electron. 8 015002 https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-8585/acacab


Paper  |  Open Access
Dosimetric comparison of autocontouring techniques for online adaptive proton therapy
A Smolders, Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) et al
2023 Phys. Med. Biol. 68 175006 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ace307


Paper |  Open Access
Recalibration of neuromodulation parameters in neural implants with adaptive Bayesian optimization
Giovanna Aiello, Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) et al
2023 J. Neural Eng. 20 026037 https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-2552/acc975


Paper  |  Open Access
Effect of triangularity on plasma turbulence and the SOL-width scaling in L-mode diverted tokamak configurations
K Lim, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) et al
2023 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion. 65 085006 https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/acdc52


Paper |  Open Access
High-efficiency photon-number-resolving detector for improving heralded single-photon sources
Lorenzo Stasi, Université de Genève et al
2023 Quantum Sci. Technol. 8 045006 https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ace54b