IOP Publishing produces high-value scientific information for the scholarly community and as all of our content is published online, we are acutely aware of the need to ensure permanent availability of, and access to, these resources. We therefore have an archiving policy in place through which we are committed to preserving our online content in archiving services.
All IOP Publishing online journals and ebooks are archived in CLOCKSS and Portico to ensure that these resources are preserved in the long term.
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Every journal is different, and while the method of submission might be very similar, there may be different requirements for each journal. This could include the types of articles the journal accepts and any limits on word length. You can find all the instructions for our journals in the table below, along with links to their submission site and email address.
General advice about getting published, including how to structure an article can be found at Author guidelines for IOP journals.
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As the DOI remains constant, we recommend the inclusion of the DOI when citing the accepted manuscript. The exact syntax of the citation will differ between reference styles, but we suggest e.g.: Author, A, Author B, and Author C 2016 New J. Phys. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa0000
The DOI and metadata will be registered with Crossref and indexed by Google for discoverability. Relevant papers will also be indexed in PubMed. PubMed will class these articles as ‘ahead of print’ and will update their status once the final version of record is published.
Currently Web Of Science, SCOPUS and other services do not support accepted manuscripts, but if they decide to do this we will do the necessary work to allow them to index the relevant metadata.
Yes, and we will also show some basic metadata that will include the date the manuscript became available online, author names, and affiliations where available.
When the version of record is available this will be published with the same DOI to ensure there is a consistent reference for citing the work.
Once an accepted manuscript or published article is available online, it is considered to be a part of the permanent scholarly record and it cannot be withdrawn, unless the research is found to:
- Contain defamatory content.
- Violate the privacy of a research subject.
- Be the subject of a court order.
- Pose a serious health risk to the general public if acted upon.
In instances where the article available online is not the subject of any of the above, it can be retracted, however, if it meets the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) retraction guidelines. As a member of COPE, we will investigate any scientific or legal concern regarding an accepted manuscript or published paper following the COPE guidelines and retract the manuscript if needed.
When articles are retracted they are not removed from the website, as per COPE guidelines, they are retained with a clear notice of retraction and bibliographic databases are notified. Retaining the original work ensures transparency of the published record, as online versions may have been accessed and cited by researchers prior to retraction. Copyright still applies to retracted articles, meaning permission may be required to re-use the retracted work, or submit the retracted work to another journal.
To request a withdrawal or retraction, please contact the IOP Publishing Research Integrity Team.
Accepted manuscripts will be available based on the same rules used for version of record publication: if the author has indicated that they wish to publish their article open access, the accepted manuscript will be freely available to everyone. If not, the accepted manuscript version will only be available to subscribers of the journal. We do not offer the option to purchase access to individual accepted manuscripts via our IOP Document Delivery Service, however, this is available to customers once the final version of record is published.
Please note that once an accepted manuscript has been published as open access we cannot reverse this decision.
As the Accepted Manuscript has entered the scientific record, we do not make changes to the Accepted Manuscript version once it has appeared online. Typographic mistakes and other alterations can of course still be made to the manuscript at the proof stage before the final version of record is published.
