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Happy Chinese New Year

12 Feb 2021 Matin Durrani

Staff from IOP Publishing mark Chinese New Year with video outlining publishing support for physicists in China

It’s now 10 years since Physics World published its first special report on China and since then scientific progress in the country has continued apace (as you can see from our latest China Briefing).

This week, for example, China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft began its orbit around Mars, while exciting new data on dark matter emerged from the PandaX-II detector in the China Jinping Underground Laboratory.

But the last 12 months have been a difficult time for physicists in China – just as they have for researchers around the world – with disruptions to work and travel resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

To mark today’s start of Chinese New Year celebrations, IOP Publishing, which publishes Physics World, has created a short video about some of the support the company has been giving to researchers in China.

The video begins with publishing director Antonia Seymour, who will take over from Steven Hall as managing director of the company next month. She explains how IOP Publishing has helped give Chinese researchers access to articles and hosted webinars on topics such as biomedical materials, complex systems and materials for energy.

Together with the Chinese Physical Society and the China University of Science and Technology (USTC), IOP Publishing also hosted last year’s Quantum 2020 conference, which featured some big names from quantum physics in China. And now IOP Publishing has made its popular “Track my Article” service available on its official WeChat account.

Image of the QR code needed to access IOP Publishing's "Track My Article" service on WeChat t

The service, which can be accessed by scanning the QR code, lets researchers who have submitted papers to IOP journals track the status of their submissions. IOP Publishing’s WeChat account in addition provides news and publishing-related information for Chinese scientists.

The video also features Chao-Yang Lu from USTC, who is editor of the IOPP journal Quantum Science and Technology, Jianwu Dai from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who is editor-in-chief of Biomedical Materials, and Paul Hardaker, chief executive of the Institute of Physics itself.

As Chinese New Year gets under way to mark the switch from the year of the rat to the year of the ox, let’s hope life slowly returns to “normal” – whether you’re in China or anywhere else in the world.

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