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Energy and Environmental Science

Exceptional research to accelerate the global energy transition

Editor-in-Chief: Jenny Nelson

Open Access: Hybrid

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Energy & Environmental Science is an international journal dedicated to publishing exceptionally important and high quality, agenda-setting research tackling the key global and societal challenges of ensuring the provision of energy and protecting our environment for the future.

ISSN: 1754-5706

Indexed in: Web of Science, Scopus, Science Citation Index (SCI)

Journal Impact factor

30.8 (2024)

First decision time (all)

10 days

First decision time (peer reviewed)

41 days

Scope

The scope is intentionally broad and the journal recognises the complexity of issues and challenges relating to energy conversion and storage, alternative fuel technologies and environmental science. For work to be published it must be linked to the energy-environment nexus and be of significant general interest to our community-spanning readership. All scales of studies and analysis, from impactful fundamental advances, to interdisciplinary research across the (bio)chemical, (bio/geo)physical sciences and chemical engineering disciplines are welcomed.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Solar energy conversion and photovoltaics
  • Solar fuels and artificial photosynthesis
  • Fuel cells
  • Hydrogen storage and (bio) hydrogen production
  • Materials for energy systems
  • Capture, storage and fate of CO2, including chemicals and fuels from CO2
  • Catalysis for a variety of feedstocks (for example, oil, gas, coal, biomass and synthesis gas)
  • Biofuels and biorefineries
  • Materials in extreme environments
  • Environmental impacts of energy technologies
  • Global atmospheric chemistry and climate change as related to energy systems
  • Water-energy nexus
  • Energy systems and networks
  • Globally applicable principles of energy policy and techno-economics

Readership

The journal appeals to chemical scientists, chemical and process engineers, energy researchers, bio-scientists and environmental scientists from across academia, industry and government.

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Meet the team

Jenny Nelson

Jenny Nelson

Chair

Imperial College London

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Xinhe Bao

Xinhe Bao

State Key Laboratory of Catalysis

Christoph Brabec

Christoph Brabec

Editorial board member

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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William Chueh

William Chueh

Editorial board member

Stanford University

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Kazunari Domen

Kazunari Domen

University of Tokyo

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Xiaojing Hao

Xiaojing Hao

Editorial board member

University of New South Wales

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Linda Nazar

Linda Nazar

Editorial board member

 University of Waterloo

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Jan Rossmeisl

Jan Rossmeisl

Editorial board member

University of Copenhagen

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Jennifer Wilcox

Jennifer Wilcox

Editorial board member

University of Pennsylvania

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Karen Wilson

Karen Wilson

Editorial board member

Griffith University

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Markus Antonietti

Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces

Bernie Bulkin

Sustainable Development Commission

Stephen Campbell

Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation

Emily Carter

Princeton University

Kylie Catchpole

Australian National University

Wonyong Choi

Korea Institute of Energy Technology

Ib Chorkendorff

Technical University of Denmark

Peter Dobson

University of Oxford

Nieves Espinosa

University of Murcia

Hongjin Fan

Nanyang Technological University

Elzbieta Frackowiak

Poznan University of Technology

Hermenegildo García

Instituto de Tecnología Química CSIC-UPV

José Goldemberg

University of São Paulo

Harry Gray

California Institute of Technology

Dirk Guldi

University Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Anders Hagfeldt

Uppsala University

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Laura Herz

University of Oxford

Steven Holdcroft

Simon Fraser University/NRC

George Huber

 University of Wisconsin-Madison

Oliver Inderwildi

University of Oxford

Saiful Islam

University of Oxford

Mercouri G Kanatzidis

Northwestern University

Thomas Kirchartz

Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ

Akihiko Kudo

Tokyo University of Science

Pooi See Lee

Nanyang Technological University

Nathan Lewis

California Institute of Technology

Chengdu Liang

Center for Nano-phase Materials Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Jeffrey R Long

University of California Berkeley

Yi-Chun Lu

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Christopher R McNeill

Monash University

Shelley Minteer

The University of Utah

Arthur Nozik

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Satish Ogale

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)

Annamaria Petrozza

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Zhiyong Jason Ren

Princeton University

Rodney Ruoff

Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology

Jennifer Rupp

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Srinivasan Sampath

Indian Institute of Science

Uwe Schröder

TU-Braunschweig

David Sinton

University of Toronto

Henry Snaith

Oxford University

Robert Socolow

Princeton University

Jefferson W Tester

Cornell University

Dan Wang

Shenzhen University

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Peng Wang

Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

Michael R Wasielewski

Northwestern University

Li-Zhu Wu

Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry

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Bilge Yildiz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Kyung Byung Yoon

Sogang University

Yan Yu

University of Science and Technology

Jincai Zhao

Center for Molecular Science

Tim S Zhao

The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Emma Eley

Executive Editor

Bianca Provost

Deputy Editor

Nour Tanbouza

Development Editor

Callum Woof

Development Editor

Claire Darby

Editorial Manager

Katie Fernandez

Associate Editorial Manager

Robin Brabham

Publishing Editor

Emma Carlisle

Publishing Editor

Hannah Hamilton

Publishing Editor

Ephraim Otumudia

Publishing Editor

Rebecca Milne

Publishing Editor

Irene Molina Santos

Publishing Editor

Michael Spencelayh

Publishing Editor

Kate Bandoo

Editorial Assistant

Linda Warncke

Publishing Assistant

Sam Keltie

Publisher

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