Energy Materials is an international peer-reviewed, open access, online journal dedicated to communicating recent progresses related to materials science and engineering in the field of energy conversion and storage. The journal publishes Articles, Communications, Mini/Reviews, Research Highlights and Perspectives with original research works focusing on the challenges of sustainable energy for the future.
Aims and Scope
Energy Materials has a broad scope of energy research spanning fundamental scientific study, technological advancement, insightful materials characterization, instructive theoretical study, and impactful energy-based data analysis. The studies and analysis in terms of developing edge-cutting materials, synthetic methods, and fundamental theories will be given preference. The journal welcomes all scales of works linked to the nexus of energy conversion and storage with attractive readership in the international research community.
Research topics include, but are not limited to:
- Batteries and supercapacitors
- Fuel cells
- Solar cells
- Solar fuels and thermosolar power
- Hydrogen generation and storage
- Advanced material characterization techniques
- Hydrocarbon conversion and storage
- Inorganic and organic photovoltaics
- Thermoelectric materials
- Nanocomposite dielectrics for energy storage
- Bioenergy and biofuels
- Regional or global energy analysis
Ownership
The journal is owned by OAE Publishing Inc, and is an official journal affiliated with Southeast University.
Publishing Model
Gold Open Access. All articles published by Energy Materials are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.
Copyright and License to Publish
Articles in Energy Materials are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting Energy Materials, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to Energy Materials should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.
Publication Ethics Statement
Energy Materials fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of Energy Materials take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.
Journal Information and Statistics
- Publication model: Gold Open Access
- Frequency: Bimonthly
- DOI: 10.20517/energymater
- Online ISSN: 2770-5900
- Digital archive: Portico
Indexing & Archiving
- All articles published in Energy Materials are included in:
- ESCI
- CAS
- Dimensions
- ResearchGate
- Lens
- J-Gate
- CNKI
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