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
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.
Author benefits
We are abstracted and indexed in several databases including the Science citation index, Scopus and more.
The prestigious and experienced members of our international Editorial Board will guide you from submission to publication.
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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
Understanding and using journal metrics
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We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
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.
Why choose open access?
- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
Article Publishing Charges (APC)
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24 issues per year
Formerly part of
- Energy Sources (1973 - 2005)
Associated with:
- Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy (2006 - current)
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