Over recent months, IOP Publishing has undertaken a strategic review of its priorities as a learned-society publisher of leading journals, magazines, websites and electronic services.
As a result of that review, the company has decided to focus on its core activity of learned journals, which have grown more than fourfold since 2001, and on the electronic services that it offers to scholarly authors.
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