Comments and feedback from editors and conference organizers

The publishing team who work on Journal of Physics: Conference Series appreciate receiving comments and feedback from authors, editors or conference organizers on their experience of working with us and the services provided by JPCS. We are delighted to be able to share some of these with you thanks to the following editors and organizers who have have given us permission to use their comments.

The Publishing Team, Journal of Physics: Conference Series
jpcs@iop.org

"In the name of all participants, we would like to thank Dr J. Schwarz and G. Douglas (IOP Publishing, Bristol), and their collaborators, for friendly advice, always immediate help during the editing process, and for their efforts in making the Journal of Physics: Conference Series available to all."
Dr Hans-Thomas Elze, Dipartimento di Fisica "Enrico Fermi", Universita di Pisa, Italy
(Editor, Volume 174, 2009)

"We are extremely satisfied of the services from IOP. First of all we strongly support the idea of open access publishing especially for Conference Proceedings and we found with you a very efficient way of doing that. Last but not least, the interaction with you and Jacky has always been very pleasant and effective. I will certainly recommend to any colleague who needs to publish Proceedings to contact IOP."
Professor Michele Livan, Dipartimento di Fisica Nucleare e Teorica, Università di Pavia, Italy
(Co-editor, Volume 160, 2009)

"The Guest Editors are grateful for the very professional and pleasant support of IOP Publishing in putting together the LT25 proceedings. Thanks to the excellent collaboration between IOP Publishing and LT25 it has been possible to publish the proceedings in less than 8 months after the conference."
Professor Peter Kes, Chairman of the LT25 Organizing Committee
(LT25, Volume 150, 2009)

"Just today I received a CD containing the papers of the LAM13 conference and before that had already received printed copies of the corresponding JPCM and JPCS issues. I very much appreciate that you have published all the proceedings in time and to a very high quality. My contacts with you and Richard Palmer (of JPCM) were one of the most pleasant activities in managing LAM13. You did an excellent job, thank you very much!"
Professor Pjotr S Popel, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
(Co-editor, Volume 98, 2008)

"I'm very happy that you have provided us with an additional opportunity for advertising the conference. It is really a pleasure to work with the JPCS editorial office. I must say that before choosing IOP I contacted other journals in order to publish our proceedings but only IOP offered me the best conditions and a general impression of better efficiency."
Professor Luca Varani, Institut d’Electronique du Sud, Université Montpellier II, France
(Chairman, EDISON 16, 24–28 August 2009, Montpellier, France)

"I wanted to thank you. We had a really great experience working with your group. Jacky was very helpful guiding us through what was needed. Your assistance in the planning stages was truly helpful in getting us on track for what we needed to have and when. Thank you very much for all your help."
Cheryl Zidel, Organizing Committee Liaison and Gail Pieper, Editor
(SciDAC 2008, Volume 125, 2008)

"Thank you very much for the prompt publishing of the VEIT 2007 proceedings in JPCS. It was a pleasure for me to work with you and I look forward to further co-operation in the future."
Professor Nikolay Guerassimov, Institute of Electronics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
(Co-editor, Volume 113, 2008)

"Yesterday I opened Volume 98 of JPCS on your website, checked everything and found that everything is excellent. Thank you very much for your very quick and high quality work! I am sure that both sides will remember each other with great pleasure. With the best wishes and a lot of thanks."
Professor Pjotr S Popel, Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia
(Co-editor, Volume 98, 2008)

"I'm very satisfied with the final version of the proceedings, it looks even better than I expected. Publication took only 20 days (including several weekends) after I uploaded the zip file. It is wonderful. I'm advertising this to all my colleagues. Thank you."
Professor Kenji Sakurai, Director, X-Ray Physics Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
(Editor, Volume 83, 2007)

"I am delighted with the service from JPCS, both the electronic and print production were truly flexible and efficient from beginning to end. Without hesitation, I would highly recommend JPCS to any conference organiser looking for a world-class proceedings publisher."
Professor Thierry Fournel, Manager of MorphoSecure Project, CNRS-Université Jean Monnet, France
(Co-editor, Volume 77, 2007)

"... because of the easy accessibility of the online proceedings and appealing format of the printed version in the hands of participants, articles pertaining to DICE2006 already receive quite a number of citations!"
Dr Hans-Thomas Elze, Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Pisa, Italy
(Co-editor, Volume 67, 2007)

"... working with you has been a very pleasant experience: professionality, flexibility, easy-going... sure, there is nothing else one could possibly ask for!"
Dr Jaume Carot, Universitat Illes Balears (UIB), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
(Co-editor, Volume 66, 2007)

"Returned to my office just now to a most pleasant surprise – four boxes of the proceedings and weeks ahead of schedule. I'm thrilled with the overall impact of the publication. Congratulations to all concerned at IOP Publishing. Sincere thanks again for your excellent work."
Dr Vincent Casey, Physics Department, University of Limerick, Ireland
(Editor, Volume 57, 2007)

"I had a look at the online proceedings. Great. I am really grateful to you and your other colleagues who are involved in this work. It is a pleasure to work with you and your colleagues and I hope to have this opportunity again soon."
Dr Jan-e Alam, Department of Atomic Energy, India
(Co-editor, Volume 50, 2006)

"Thank you very much for your support to our IMEMS 2006 conference. It was really a pleasure working with IOP."
Alagappan Palaniappan, Microsystems Technology Initiative, National University of Singapore
(Volume 34, 2006)

"... thank you very much for all your work (and so fast!). I will certainly recommend Journal of Physics: Conference Series to any colleagues who need an excellent proceedings publisher, and I hope to work with you soon again."
Dr Marco Cavaglia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Mississippi, USA
(Co-editor, Volume 33, 2006)

"... the proceedings are full of most useful links. Thank you."
Dr Sante Cirant, Istituto di Fisica del Plasma, Milano, Italy
(Editor, Volume 25, 2005)

"Thank you very much for publication of the proceedings in time. It looks perfect. I think all participants will be very happy..., I thank the Institute of Physics Editorial team for publishing these proceedings very rapidly and efficiently."
Dr Alexander N Pisarchik, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Guanajuato, Mexico
(Editor, Volume 23, 2005)

"We would like to express again our gratitude for publishing proceedings of our previous workshop, HAMSA2004, as volume 22 of your journal: the quality of both the online version and of hard-copies is superb."
Professor Alexei Pokrovskii, Department of Applied Mathematics, University College Cork, Ireland
(Co-editor, Volume 22, 2005)

"We would like to express our deep appreciation to Institute of Physics Publishing, who worked tirelessly in order to provide us with this finished volume within two months, which is nothing short of miraculous."
Professor Anthony Mezzacappa, Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA
(Co-editor, Volume 16, 2005)

"You have been very fast in completing all the work for the publication of the proceedings. I have already got some e-mails from the conference participants who are very impressed because of your 'record in terms of the shortness of time'! My best compliments."
Dr Rosalba Saija, Università di Messina, Italy
(Co-editor, Volume 6, 2005)

"I am delighted to see the online publication of our proceedings. Thank you for taking care of this so rapidly... the collaboration with your publishing office was very pleasant and efficient."
Professor Andreas Wolf, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
(Co-editor, Volume 4, 2005)