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IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with a number of Swiss institutions through the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries 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.

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

Discover high impact papers published through this agreement in our celebratory collection.

Eligible institutions

Basel University
Bern University
Fribourg University
Geneva University
Library for the Research Institutes within the ETH Domain: Eawag, Empa, PSI & WSL:

• Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
• Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
• Paul Scherrer Institute
• Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPF)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH)
University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW)
University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO)
Zurich University
Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

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

The following information is available to help you with our copyright and permissions policies.

• Copyright
• Reusing IOP Published content
• Reusing third party material in new IOP content
• Creative Commons Licences
• CCC Republication service
• STM Permissions guidelines
• Permissions FAQs

 

 

IOP Publishing expects complete and accurate reporting of research to enable readers to fully understand and evaluate the work. We encourage authors to include information about their research design to further enhance the reproducibility of their research.

Many fields of research have established common reporting guidelines. IOP Publishing encourages the use of whichever guidelines are most appropriate to the study, and we encourage peer reviewers to consider and comment on whether the most appropriate guidelines have been followed.

Some reporting guidelines that authors may find relevant include:

1. ARRIVE: Reporting any area of bioscience research using laboratory animals
2. CONSIDER: Reporting of health research involving Indigenous peoples
3. CONSORT: Parallel group randomised trials
4. PRISMA: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
5. SAGER: Reporting of sex and gender information in study design, data analyses, results and interpretation of findings

The EQUATOR Network provides a useful database of a variety of reporting guidelines and tools.

Some IOP Publishing journals may mandate the use of a specific set of reporting guidelines, for example, authors writing for Physical Measurement must follow the SAGER guidelines. For more information, please check the journal instructions.

Outstanding Reviewers

Shakeel Ahmad Khan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Ratiram Gomaji Chaudhary, Seth Kesarimal Porwal College, India

Manickam Dakshinamoorthi Balakumaran, DG Vaishnav College, India

Majid Darroudi, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Yangqing He, Xi’an University of Technology, China

Suvardhan Kanchi, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Lalthazuala Kasinathan, University of South Africa UNISA, South Africa

Rajesh Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, India

Suresh Kumar Kailasa, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Chemistry, India

Mansour Mashreghi, University of Mashhad, Iran

Adnan Mohammed Hussein, Northern Technical University, Iraq

Mu Naushad, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia

Abdul  Rahman Mohamed, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

P Rajiv, Karpagam Academy of Higher Education, India

Lalthazuala Rokhum, National Institute of Technology Chemistry, India

Masoud Salavati-Niasari, University of Kashan, Iran

Mina Sarani, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Muthupandian Saravanan, Mekelle University, Ethiopia

Meryam Sardar, Jamia Millia Islamia, India

On this page you can find an overview of how to critique a scientific manuscript and what to look for when acting as a peer reviewer. However, IOP Publishing also offers a free, comprehensive online training course leading to IOP Trusted Reviewer certification.

Our Peer Review Excellence course takes around 90 minutes to complete. You can register for free here: Peer Review Excellence.

When you review a manuscript for any IOP Publishing journal you are eligible for IOP Trusted Reviewer certification.

Our editors rate all of the reviewer reports we receive on a scale of 1-5, with 5 representing a report of outstanding quality. Any reviewer who submits a report rated 5 will achieve IOP Trusted Reviewer status and become eligible for our Reviewer Awards. For reviewers who have completed our Peer Review Excellence training, the threshold for IOP Trusted Reviewer status is a report rated 4 or above.

Please note that in cases where the manuscript editor rescinds a reviewer report due to excessive self-citation, citation manipulation, or any other form of reviewer misconduct, the re-submitted report will receive a maximum rating of 2.

This document shows how we rate reviewer reports.

These documents contain examples of outstanding reviews in the fields of:

• Smart Materials
• Laser-Induced Fluorescence
• Plasmas
• Medical Imaging
• Quantum Computing
• Cosmology
• Medical Physics
• Piezoelectric Energy

This document contains examples of reports rated 1, 3, and 5.

Yes. If you published your article on a subscription basis within an IOP owned journal, our Author Rights Policy grants you back the right to reuse, without permission, your figures, tables, and text extracts of up to 400 words, in future published works. This also applies to the Partner owned journals we publish that share our Author Rights Policy, and also to some that have their own policy. For more information on the author rights policy applicable to each journal, please see our Quick Check Guide.

When reusing content in this way, you must display adequate citation information and IOP’s and/or our Partner’s copyright notice. This information is necessary in order to show where any reuse requests should be directed and to avoid any suggestion of self-plagiarism.

If you published your article on a Gold Open Access basis under a CC BY licence, you—in common with all third parties—may deal with the article in any way you wish (such as reusing figures, tables, and text extracts, in new works), so long as you include attribution to the authors, the journal citation and notice of the CC BY licence. For full licence terms and attribution requirements, please refer to the CC BY licence on the Creative Commons website.

IOP Publishing recognises that people change their name for a variety of reasons (including but not limited to gender identity, marriage, divorce, or a change in religion), and we support our authors’ rights to update their previously published work accordingly.

What kind of changes are covered by this policy?

Changes covered by this policy include names, pronouns, author photographs and email addresses (where the address reflects the name of the person). This policy does not cover changes to correct spelling errors or job/affiliation details.

This policy applies to all content published by IOP Publishing, including journal articles, conference proceedings and eBooks.

IOP Publishing will only consider requests from the author named in the change request. Requests to change the name of another individual without their consent will be considered ethical misconduct (see our ethical policy).

How will changes be displayed?

We respect authors’ right to privacy, and as such we offer authors the option to have their name changed with or without a public notice. The requesting author will have sole autonomy of any public notice. Co-authors will not be notified of any change unless the author explicitly chooses to include a public notice alongside the name change request.

The article DOI will remain the same. The PDF and the HTML of the article will be changed.

IOP Publishing will send updated metadata to indexers and third parties, however we cannot guarantee changes on other platforms or databases. We are unable to update citations to articles in which a name change has occurred.

How to request a change

Authors who wish to change their name on any work previously published with IOP Publishing are requested to fill out this form.

Authors who wish to change their name on work published in the American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals must contact namechange@aasjournals.org. For more information, please visit https://journals.aas.org/aas-name-change-policy/.

Authors will not be required to disclose the reasons for the request, nor will they be asked to provide proof that any name change has taken place. Authors are assured of full confidentiality and sensitivity in relation to any request or related discussion.

Authors are encouraged to update their name and contact information on the IOP Publishing submission and peer review system (more information at https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/scholar-one-help/). Name changes requested through this process will only update names as they appear on published articles. If you would like your personal details changed on other internal IOP Publishing systems, please contact gdpr@ioplegal.org. Any authors that are also members of the Institute of Physics are advised they can update their own details via IOPConnect.

Questions related to the policy should be directed to mikka.pers@ioppublishing.org. You will receive a response within five working days.

IOP Publishing considers any attempt to impersonate another person as a serious breach of ethics. IOP Publishing has the right to request proof of identity in cases where identity fraud or impersonation is alleged or suspected.

Authors should not share their log in details to any journal’s submission system, nor should they ask or allow anyone to submit on their behalf. This practice is considered to be a serious breach of this policy.

Only the author assigned the role of submitting author should submit their work themselves for consideration. IOP Publishing reserves the right to immediately reject a manuscript that has been found to have been submitted on an author’s behalf.

Reviewer of the Year: Marwa Al-Karadi, University of Hull, United Kingdom

Outstanding Reviewers

Nasim Montazeri Ghahjaverestan, KITE, Toronto Rehab-University Health Network, Canada

Danilo Pani, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy

Jose Ignacio Priego-Quesada, University of Valencia, Spain

Maximilian Lukas Schmitt, University of Augsburg, Germany

Adérito Seixas, Fundacao Ensino e Cultura Fernando Pessoa, Portugal

Reviewer of the Year: Chih-Chieh Liu, University of California Davis, United States

Outstanding Reviewers

Benjamin Auer, University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States

Yannick Berker, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

Yingxuan Chen, University of Pennsylvania, United States

Miguel A Cortes-Giraldo, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Luana de Freitas Nascimento, Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie, Belgium

Aurelien Destruel, The University of Queensland, Australia

Audrey Fan, University of California, Davis, United States

Peng Fan, Tsinghua University, China

Yongfeng Gao, Stony Brook University, United States

Matthew Hoerner, Yale University, United States

Parag Khobragade, Siemens Heathineers, India

Peder Larson, University of California, San Francisco, United States

Chang-Ock Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

Kevin Leung, Johns Hopkins University, United States

Sagar Mandava, GE Healthcare, United States

Eleanor Martin, University College London, United Kingdom

Matthew Mille, National Institutes of Health, United States

Leyla Moghaddasi, GenesisCare, Australia

Chiara Paganelli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Evangelos Pappas, Panepistemio Dytikes Attikes, Greece

Vicki Taasti, Maastro Clinic, Netherlands

Troy P T Teo, Northwestern Medicine, United States

Pierre-André Vuissoz, IADI, Université de Lorraine, U1254, INSERM, France

Tianyuan Wang, Kobe University Hospital, Japan

Wei Zhao, Beihang University, China

Klemens Zink, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Germany