This policy should be read in conjunction with our guidelines for authors and reviewers. This policy applies to all IOP Publishing Limited (“IOPP”) owned journals and to those journals published with partner organisations that are listed in the appropriate section below. All corresponding authors are requested to confirm they have read and understand this policy when they submit to our journals.

IOPP is a member of the Committee for Publication Ethics (COPE), and apply the principles of publication ethics outlined in the COPE Core Practices. We take publishing ethics very seriously and accept our responsibility to maintain the integrity of the scientific record as much as possible.

Unbiased consideration is given to all manuscripts offered for publication regardless of the race, gender, religious belief, ethnicity, citizenship, political philosophy, sexual orientation, age or reputation of the authors.

In order to legally comply with applicable International sanctions, IOPP checks the EU, UK and US sanctions lists for the names and affiliated institutions of corresponding authors from specific territories where a paper is submitted to IOPP publications and the publications of some of its partners.  If that author and/or institution is on one or more of those lists then IOPP will have to ask for the paper to be withdrawn.  In addition, to meet financial sanctions, IOPP is unable to manage payments from certain countries for which there are banking restrictions.  Where this is applicable, IOPP will notify the corresponding author of the implications.

For further details, please refer to:
https://publishingsupport.iopscience.iop.org/ethical-policy-journals/