This page contains a list of open access journals in which energy research and energy modeling software can be published.
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Overview
Energies
Energies is an open access journal of related scientific research, technology development and policy and management studies. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. The full experimental details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced.
- Website
- http://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies
- Publisher keywords
- energy sources, energy saving, energy efficiency
- Length
- no restrictions
- LaTeX and MS Word templates available
- Summary
- established
- engineering oriented
- Based
- Switzerland
- ISSN
- 1996-1073
- DOAJ listing
- https://doaj.org/toc/1996-1073
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Publication fee
- CHF1500 (€1500 in 2017, includes 5% exchange fee)
Energy Reports
Energy Reports is a new online multidisciplinary open access journal which focuses on publishing new research in the area of energy with a rapid review and publication time. Energy Reports will be open to direct submissions and also to submissions from other Elsevier energy journals, whose editors have determined that Energy Reports would be a better fit.
Direct submissions to the journal can be on any aspect of energy research, either from a technical engineering viewpoint or from a social research aspect. All energy subject areas will be considered (for example, renewables, fossil, nuclear). Article length is limited to 4000 words (not including references) with normally no more than 5 figures and 3 tables (table and figures legends are not included in the aforementioned word limit). Energy Reports operates a single blind peer review and generally allows for only one revision iteration.
- Website
- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-reports/
- Length
- 4000 words (excluding references)
- Summary
- Elsevier open access journal with first published in November 2015
- broad coverage
- Based
- United Kingdom
- ISSN
- 2352-4847
- DOAJ listing
- https://doaj.org/toc/2352-4847
- License
- CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND (author choice)
- Publication fee
- US$1500 (€1400 in 2016)
- waiver policy for developing countries
Energy Science & Engineering
Energy Science & Engineering is a peer reviewed, open access journal dedicated to fundamental and applied research on energy and supply and use. Published as a co-operative venture of Wiley and SCI (Society of Chemical Industry), the journal offers authors a fast route to publication and the ability to share their research with the widest possible audience of scientists, professionals and other interested people across the globe.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following areas:
- General energy: impact of production of electricity, heat and fuels, efficiency: built environment, industry and transport, systems, policy, legislation and planning, cycle analysis
- Fossil fuels: carbon capture and storage (CCS), reduction of other pollutants (NOx, SOx, etc)
- Energy storage: thermal energy storage, chemical energy storage
- Nuclear energy: nuclear reprocessing and breeder reactors, subcritical reactors, waste reduction/management, safety
- Renewable energy: solar energy and photovoltaics, hydrogen, batteries and fuel cells, wind energy, marine energy and hydropower, geothermal energy, other renewables
- Power engineering: electric power systems, electric power electronics, cogeneration and combined heat and power, distributed power generation, microgeneration, power distribution and grid modernisation, power management and modelling
- Website
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2050-0505
- Summary
- Wiley journal first published in April 2013
- engineering oriented
- Length
- no restriction
- preferred formats are MS Word and RTF, some support for LaTeX
- Based
- —United Kingdom
- ISSN
- 2050-0505
- DOAJ listing
- https://doaj.org/toc/2050-0505
- License
- CC BY 3.0
- Publication fee
- €1400
Energy, Sustainability and Society
This international peer‐reviewed open access journal offers a forum for discourse on systemic challenges at the intersection of energy, sustainability and society for natural scientists, engineers, social and political scientists and industry experts. It is the particular aim of this journal to publish inter‐ and cross‐disciplinary papers that provide a substantial contribution to the holistic innovation of sustainable energy systems.
The scope of the journal encompasses the whole innovation process, ranging from scientific research to both innovative approaches for technology implementation and the analysis of economic, social and environmental impacts of sustainable energy systems. Papers that integrate at least two dimensions of the energy, sustainability and society nexus and contribute to new holistic system solutions for the development of novel future energy are welcomed. The journal strives to publish early scientific opinions on issues, which are just emerging and require crosscutting and creative thinking.
Publication fees: the journal therefore levies an article-processing charge of £730 / $1140 / €930 for each article accepted for publication. If the corresponding author's institution is a Member, the cost of the article-processing charge is covered by the membership, and no further charge is payable. In the case of authors whose institutions are Supporter Members, however, a discounted article-processing charge is payable by the author.
- Website
- http://energsustainsoc.springeropen.com/
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Frontiers in Energy Research
This section of the open access journal FRONTIERS welcomes the submission of studies that examine the characteristics of new energy sources in a systemic way, such as the energy yield, the economic return, the pollution effects, and the sustainability of the system in terms of the natural resources that must be engaged.
Publication fees: depend on article type
- A Type Articles: Classification, Clinical Trial, Hypothesis & Theory, Methods, Original Research, Protocols, Review, Technology Report
- B Type Articles: Case Report, Clinic-Pathological Conference (CPC), Evaluation, Mini Review, Perspective
- C Type Articles: Code, Data Report, Opinion
- D Type Articles: Book Review, Core Concept (Young Minds), Editorial, Field Grand Challenge, Focused Review, Frontiers Commentary, General Commentary, New Discovery (Young Minds), Specialty Grand Challenge.
- Website
- http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/energy-research/section/energy-systems-and-policy
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International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management
The journal is an international interdisciplinary journal in sustainable energy planning and management combining engineering and social science within energy system analysis, feasibility studies and public regulation. The journal especially welcomes papers within the following three focus areas:
- Energy system analysis including theories, methodologies, data handling and software tools as well as specific models and analyses at local, regional, country and/or global level
- Economics, socio-economics and feasibility studies including theories and methodologies of institutional economics as well as specific feasibility studies and analyses
- Public regulation and management including theories and methodologies as well as specific analyses and proposals in the light of the implementation and transition into sustainable energy systems
The journal is sponsor-financed with open access for both readers and authors.
- Website
- https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/sepm
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- Publication fee
- none (see above)
Journal of Open Research Software
The open access Journal of Open Research Software (JORS) is dedicated to publishing open source research software. It is therefore a useful outlet in which to publish software source code, and then be able to cite the software from other articles.
The journal features peer reviewed software metapapers describing research software with high reuse potential. We are working with a number of specialist and institutional repositories to ensure that the associated software is professionally archived, preserved, and is openly available. Equally importantly, the software and the papers will be citable, and reuse will be tracked.
JORS also publishes full-length research papers that cover different aspects of creating, maintaining and evaluating open source research software. The aim of the section is to promote the dissemination of best practice and experience related to the development and maintenance of reusable, sustainable research software. Papers are limited to 4000 words and few references.
JORS believes that only the CC BY license meets the requirements for true open access for books and journals, and strongly prefers CC0 for open research data.
- Website
- http://openresearchsoftware.metajnl.com/
- Length
- software reviews are short
- research papers are limited to 4000 words
- Summary
- principally for short peer reviews of software and associated code, research papers not common
- Based
- United Kingdom
- ISSN
- 2049-9647
- DOAJ listing
- https://doaj.org/toc/2049-9647
- License
- Creative Commons BY 4.0 (text)
- Creative Commons CC0 (strongly preferred for data)
- Publication fee
- £100 (€120 in 2016) for software reviews
- £300 (€360 in 2016) for research papers
- fee may be partially or fully waived for non-funded authors
