About this journal

Aims and scope

Energy Sources Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects aims to investigate resolutions for the continuing increase in worldwide demand for energy, the growing impact of energy use on the environment and climate, and the energy transition needed to sustainably address these challenges. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects accepts the following types of article: original articles, letter to the editor.

You are invited to submit manuscripts that explore the technological, scientific and environmental aspects of:

  • Biofuels and bioenergy
  • Coal energy
  • Carbon capture, storage, and utilization
  • Decarbonization of energy systems
  • Energy from waste
  • Energy Storage and flexible generation
  • Energy efficiency
  • Environmental impacts of smart technologies
  • Environmental impacts of energy sources
  • Energy transition
  • Gas energy
  • Geothermal energy
  • Greenhouse gas removal
  • Nuclear energy
  • Oil shale energy
  • Petroleum and processing industry
  • Smart technologies in energy applications
  • Solar energy
  • Wind energy
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.

Readership:Professionals involved in energy extraction and conversion, as well as all those concerned with the relationship between energy and the environment.

We operate a rigorous single-anonymized peer review process, you can visit our Instructions for Authors page for information on preparing your manuscript.

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Journal metrics

Usage

  • 324K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 2.3 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 2.4 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 4.4 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.734 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.517 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 5 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 34 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
  • 15 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
  • 23% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief
Professor Sandro Nižetić
LTEF - Head of Laboratory for Thermodynamics and Energy Efficiency,
FESB - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Naval Architecture,
University of Split, Rudjera Boskovica 32, Split, Croatia

Associate Editors
Fabrizio Ascione - Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy
Milan Vujanović - University of Maribor, Slovenia
Yaning Zhang - Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Abdul Hai Al-Alami - University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Hui Jin - Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Yee Van Fan - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Rajendran Silambarasan - Annapoorana Engineering College, Tamil Nadu, India
Anna Stoppato - Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy

Editorial Assistant
Ana Čulić - University of Split, Croatia

Editorial Advisory Board
İskender Akkurt - Physics Department, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey
Abdul Hai Alami - University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Hafiz Muhammad Ali - King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Olga Arsenyeva - National University of Urban Economy, Ukraine
Yogendra Arya - J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, India
Giacomo Belgiorno - PUNCH Torino S.p.A., Italy
B. Chitti Babu - Dept. of Electronics Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Chennai, India
Marina Corral-Bobadilla - University of La Rioja, Spain
Yusuf Bicer - Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Stanislav Boldyryev - University of Zagreb, Croatia
YangQuan Chen - School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA, USA
Tomasz Cholewa - Lublin University of Technology, Poland
Duje Čoko - University of Split, Croatia
Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis - Faculty of Science and Technology, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
Nour Shafik El-Gendy - Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt
Marilize Everts - University of Pretoria, South Africa
Paris A. Fokaides - School of Engineering, Frederick University, Cyprus
Wang Fuqiang - Harbin Institute of Technology at Weihai, China
Antonio Gagliano - University of Catania, Italy
Edwin Geo Varuvel - Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey
Noradin Ghadimi - Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
Mohammad Ghiasi - University of Regina, Canada
Effrosyni Giama - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
M.E. Gonzalez-Trevizo - Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico
Onder Kizilkan - Isparta University of Applied Sciences
Zuhao Kou Kou - University of Wyoming, USA
Naveen Kumar - Mechanical Production & Industrial and Automobile Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India
Dong Li - Northeast Petroleum University, China
Hu Li - Center for R&D of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China
Larry K.B. Li - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Zhenjun Ma- University of Wollongong, Australia
Ivo Marinić-Kragić - Univeristy of Split, Croatia
Henna Maula - Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Simona Silvia Merola - Istituto Motori of the Italian National Research Council, Napoli, Italy
Omid Nematollahi - Isfahan University of Technology, Iran
Obafemi Olatunji - University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Xuan Phuong Nguyen - Ho Chi Minh city University of Transport, Vietnam
Alexandra Elena Plesu Popescu - University of Barcelona, Spain
Zafar Said - University of Sharjah/ National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), United Arab Emirates/Pakistan
Swellam Wafa Sharshir - Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt
Ksеnija Stojanović - Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Fengrui Sun - Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Geothermal Energy Engineering, Three Field Energy Research Institute, Beijing, China
Sang-Bing Tsai - Nankai University and Zhongshan Institute, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Taiwan
Theocharis Tsoutsos - Technical University Crete, Greece
Neven Voca - Faculty of Agriculture, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Xue-Chao Wang - Beijing Normal University, China
Liang Xiao - Geological Resources and Geological Engineering, China University of Geoscience, Beijing, China
Jin Wang - Hebei University of Technology, China
Yaning Zhang - Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Zhien Zhang - The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Junior Board Members
Avinash Alagumalai - GMR Institute of Technology, India
Panagiota Antoniadou - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Anil Erdogan - Vestel Home Appliances, Turkey
Xuexiu Jia - Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Mišo Jurčević - University of Split, Croatia
Meisam Moghadasi - Materials and Energy Research Center, Iran
N. Rakesh - Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India
Marzhan Sadenova - East Kazakhstan Technical University, Kazakhstan
Manigandan Sekar - Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology, India
Ivan Stoševski - University of British Columbia, Canada

Abstracting and indexing

Abstracting and indexing

Energy Sources is currently indexed/abstracted in the following databases: Applied Science & Technology Index; API Abstracts / Literature; Automatic Subject Index Citation; BIOSIS Previews; Chemical Abstracts; CSA Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts; CSA Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management Database; CSA Pollution Abstracts; Current Contents / Engineering, Technology & Applied Sciences; Directory of Industry Data Sources; Economic Abstracts; Electrical and Electronics Abstracts; Energy Research Abstracts; Energy Information Abstracts; Engineering Index Monthly; Environmental Abstracts; Environmental Periodicals Bibliography (EPB); International Abstracts in Operations Research; Operations/Research/ Management Science Abstracts; Petroleum Abstracts; Physikalische Berichte; Scopus; Science Citation Index.

Open access

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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