Scientific publishing

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IOP and one of the world’s leading publishers in physics and related disciplines.

Its net income is critical in supporting the charitable activities of the IOP, covering around 85% of the IOP’s annual operating costs.

From its offices in Beijing, Bristol, Philadelphia and Tokyo it serves the global physics community, publishing more than 100 journals, around 100 books every year, conference proceedings and magazines, including Physics World.

IOPP has long been a pioneer in open-access publishing, launching its first open-access journal, New Journal of Physics, in 1998, in partnership with the German Physical Society, and now publishes 24 fully open access journals.

Nearly half of the 36,000 peer-reviewed journal articles it publishes each year are open access, as are all its 21,000 conference proceedings articles. The majority of the journal articles it publishes by UK researchers are open access, thanks to a ‘transformative agreement’ with UK universities.

In addition to publishing its own journals and books, IOPP provides publishing services to other leading scientific societies, co-publishing with, among others, the American Astronomical Society, the Chinese Physical Society, the Electrochemical Society and the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

IOP Publishing is the founding member of Purpose-Led Publishing, a coalition of three society publishers committed to always putting purpose above profit by reinvesting funds made from publishing back into the research ecosystem.

For more information, visit the IOPP website.