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Reviewer of the Year: Michael Gelinsky, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Aylin Acun, Harvard University, United States

Alexander Bittner, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain

Laura Blaha, Editas Medicine, United States

David Browe, St Luke’s Hospital, Ireland

Jan Bruder, Max-Planck-Institut fur molekulare Biomedizin, Germany

Alvin W C Chua, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Nicola Contessi Negrini, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

David Corr, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States

Raquel Costa-Almeida, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Duncan Davis-Hall, University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, United States

Fiona Freeman, Saint Luke’s Hospital, Ireland

James Friend, University of California, San Diego, United States

Laura Hockaday, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany

Tomasz Juengst, Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany

Jangwook Jung, Louisiana State University, United States

Ellen Langer, Oregon Health & Science University, United States

Anne Leferink, Universiteit Twente, Netherlands

Robert Luxenhofer, Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg, Germany

Shashi Malladi, University of Toronto, Canada

Pasquale Marrazzo, Universita di Bologna, Italy

Celeste Nelson, Princeton University, United States

Liqun Ning, Emory University, United States

Miina Ojansivu, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Carmine Onofrillo, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Samand Pashneh-Tala, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Shantanu Pradhan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Marco Rasponi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Sébastien Sart, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Jelle Sleeboom, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Jonathan Song, The Ohio State University, United States

Stephen Thorpe, University College Dublin, Ireland

Bret Ulery, University of Missouri, United States

Sébastien Uzel, Harvard University, United States

Victoria Virador, Montgomery College, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States

Małgorzata Włodarczyk-Biegun, INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany

Cancan Xu, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States

Jiabin Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Guangliang Zhang, Ruihua Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, China

Ali Zolfagharian, Deakin University, Australia

Pinar Zorlutuna, University of Notre Dame, United States

Reviewer of the Year: Taizoh Sadoh, Kyushu University, Japan

Juan Paolo S Bermundo, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Hajime Fujikura, Sciocs Co Ltd, Japan

Akira Hirano, UV Craftory Co., Ltd., Japan

Kazunobu Kojima, Tohoku University, Japan

Wakana Kubo, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Ivan  Lobach , Institute of Automation and Electrometrics of the Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Matteo Meneghini, University of Padova, Italy

Takahiro Moriyama, Kyoto University, Japan

Taro Nagahama, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Engineering, Japan

Narihito Okada, Yamaguchi University, Japan

Koichi Okamoto, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan

Pavel  Peterka, Institute of Photonics and Electronics Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Ranjan Singh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Eisuke Tokumitsu, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Man Hoi Wong, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States

jinjuan Xiang, Institute of Microelectronics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Atsushi A Yamaguchi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

Reviewer of the Year: Betül Gürünlü, Gebze Teknik Universitesi, Turkey 

Gustav Bihlmayer, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, Germany 

Nicola Black, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom 

Mattia Bramini, Universidad de Granada, Spain 

Thorsten Deilmann, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany 

Rob Eason, University of Southampton, United Kingdom 

Giulia Fioravanti, Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy 

Denis Garoli, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy 

Gwan-Hyoung Lee, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea 

Liam McDonnell, University of Southampton, United Kingdom 

Francisco Mireles, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico 

Rai Moriya, Tokyo Daigaku, Japan 

Daniel Nezich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumni Association, United States of America 

Shashank Shekhar, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea 

Abhay Shivayogimath, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Sake Wang, Tohoku University, Japan 

Yadollah Yaghoubinezhad, Birjand University of Technology, Iran 

Ali Zahid, Qu & Co BV Netherlands , Pakistan 

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IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with the IReL consortium in Ireland 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. 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.

Eligible institutions
Dublin City University
Maynooth University
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Technological University Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
University College Cork
University College Dublin
University of Galway (incl. St. Angela’s College, Sligo)
University of Limerick

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

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with MALMAD, the Israeli Inter-University Centre for Digital Information Services in Israel 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. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Watch our webinar to find out more about the agreement: Open access for Israel with IOP Publishing

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

Eligible institutions
Ariel University
Bar-Ilan University
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Institute for Biological Research
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tel Aviv University
Weizmann Institute of Science

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

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IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Biblioteca do conhecimento online (b-on) in Portugal 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?
• Research papers, special issues, letters and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B and C in the title list of eligible journals
• 44 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.

Eligible institutions:

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação
Banco de Portugal
CESPU – Cooperativa De Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, C.R.L.
Egas Moniz – Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, C.R.L.
ENSILIS – Educação e Formação, Unipessoal, Lda.
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa
Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril
Escola Superior Náutica Infante D. Henrique
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud
Fundação Minerva – Cultura – Ensino e Investigação Científica (Universidade Lusíada)
INFARMED – Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde, I.P.
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC TEC)
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, I.P.
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
Instituto Politécnico de Beja
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre
Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
Instituto Politecnico do Cavado e do Ave
Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I.P.
Instituto Universitário da Maia (ISMAI)
Instituto Universitário Militar (IUM)
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
ISCTE-IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
ISPA – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida
Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P.
Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC
SCML-Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
Universidade Aberta
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Universidade da Beira Interior
Universidade da Madeira
Universidade de Aveiro
Universidade de Coimbra
Universidade de Évora
Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Universidade do Algarve
Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Porto
Universidade dos Açores
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique

Please check your relevant support page here to see which journal lists apply for your agreement.

Use IOPP Journal Finder to see if you might be covered by a transformative agreement.

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Additionally, you may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful.

• List A: Journals included in all transformative agreements;
• List B: Society partner journals;
• List C: The Electrochemical Society journals;
• List D: Gold open access journals.

List A: Journals included in all transformative agreements.

Reports on Progress in Physics does not include review article types.

Journal acronym	Online ISSN	Title
2DM	2053-1583	2D Materials
BB	1748-3190	Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
BF	1758-5090	Biofabrication
BMM	1748-605X	Biomedical Materials
BPEX	2057-1976	Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
CQG	1361-6382	Classical and Quantum Gravity
EJP	1361-6404	European Journal of Physics
ERX	2631-8695	Engineering Research Express
EST	2516-1075	Electronic Structure
FPE	2058-8585	Flexible and Printed Electronics
IP	1361-6420	Inverse Problems
JBR	1752-7163	Journal of Breath Research
JMM	1361-6439	Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
JNE	1741-2552	Journal of Neural Engineering
JOPT	2040-8986	Journal of Optics
JPCM	1361-648X	Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
JPhysA	1751-8121	Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
JPhysB	1361-6455	Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
JPhysD	1361-6463	Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
JPhysG	1361-6471	Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
JRP	1361-6498	Journal of Radiological Protection
MAF	2050-6120	Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
MET	1681-7575	Metrologia
MSMSE	1361-651X	Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
MST	1361-6501	Measurement Science and Technology
NANO	1361-6528	Nanotechnology
NANOFUT	2399-1984	Nano Futures
NON	1361-6544	Nonlinearity
PB	1478-3975	Physical Biology
PE	1361-6552	Physics Education
PMB	1361-6560	Physics in Medicine & Biology
PMEA	1361-6579	Physiological Measurement
PPCF	1361-6587	Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
PRGB	2516-1091	Progress in Biomedical Engineering
PRGE	2516-1083	Progress in Energy
PS	1402-4896	Physica Scripta
PSST	1361-6595	Plasma Sources Science and Technology
QST	2058-9565	Quantum Science & Technology
ROPP	1361-6633	Reports on Progress in Physics (excludes review article types)
SMS	1361-665X	Smart Materials and Structures
SST	1361-6641	Semiconductor Science and Technology
STMP	2051-672X	Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties
SUST	1361-6668	Superconductor Science and Technology

List B: Society Partner journals

These are hybrid journals that we manage in partnership with the society publishers. Please check the relevant agreement page prior to submission.

Journal acronym	Online ISSN	Journal Name
ANSN	2043-6262	Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
EPL	1286-4854	EPL
FDR	1873-7005	Fluid Dynamics Research
FCS	2631-6331	Functional Composites and Structures
JJAP	1347-4065	Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
JCAP	1475-7516	Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JINST	1748-0221	Journal of Instrumentation
JSTAT	1742-5468	Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
LP	1555-6611	Laser Physics
LPL	1612-202X	Laser Physics Letters
PASP	1538-3873	Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

List C: The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals

Please check the relevant agreement page prior to submission. If ECS journals are not covered by your transformative agreement, please check to see if your institution subscribes to ECS Plus.

Journal acronym	Online ISSN	Journal Name
JSS	2162-8777	ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
JES	1945-7111	Journal of the Electrochemical Society

List D: Gold open access journals

These are fully open access journals. Please check the relevant agreement page prior to submission to see if List D is funded by your institution.

Journal acronym	Online ISSN	Journal Name
APEX	1882-0786	Applied Physics Express
ECS Advances	2754-2734	ECS Advances*
ECS Sensors Plus	2754-2726	ECS Sensors Plus*
ERC	2515-7620	Environmental Research Communications
ERCL	2752-5295	Environmental Research: Climate*
ERE	2752-664X	Environmental Research: Ecology*
ERH	2752-5309	Environmental Research: Health*
ERIS	2634-4505	Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
ERL	1748-9326	Environmental Research Letters
IJEM	2631-7990	International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
JPCO	2399-6528	Journal of Physics: Communications
JPCOMPLEX	2632-072X	Journal of Physics: Complexity
JPENERGY	2515-7655	Journal of Physics: Energy
JPMATER	2515-7639	Journal of Physics: Materials
JPPHOTON	2515-7647	Journal of Physics: Photonics
MLST	2632-2153	Machine Learning: Science and Technology
MQT	2633-4356	Materials for Quantum Technology
MRX	2053-1591	Materials Research Express
NANOX	2632-959X	Nano Express
NCE	2634-4386	Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
NF	1741-4326	Nuclear Fusion
NJP	1367-2630	New Journal of Physics

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