Applied Energy

Applied Energy (Appl. Energy) is an energy research journal published by Elsevier. Launched in January 1975 and marking its fiftieth anniversary in 2025, it is among the highest-impact general titles in energy research, concentrates on the modelling, optimisation and policy analysis of energy systems, appears semimonthly, and had a 2025 impact factor of 12.2.《应用能源》（Applied Energy''''，缩写 Appl. Energy''）是爱思唯尔出版的能源研究刊物，1975 年 1 月创刊，2025 年迎来创刊五十周年，是能源领域影响因子最高的综合性刊物之一。该刊以能源系统的建模、优化与政策研究为主，现为半月刊，二〇二五年影响因子为 12.2。

Scope

The journal's editorial stance is that a paper must speak to the actual operation and governance of energy systems: however elegant the method, it has to show what quantifiable understanding it yields about the conversion, delivery, use or regulation of energy. Coverage runs across scales from components to policy, and concentrates on:本刊的取稿立场是「面向能源系统的实际运行与决策」：一篇论文不论方法多么精巧，都要说明它对能源的转换、输配、使用或治理产生了什么可量化的认识。收文覆盖从部件到政策的多层尺度，重点包括：

• Energy conversion and efficiency: power generation and heat-to-power conversion, combustion and fuels, industrial and building efficiency, and waste heat recovery and cascading use.能源转换与能效： 发电与热电转换、燃烧与燃料、工业与建筑节能、余热回收与梯级利用。

• Renewable and emerging energy: photovoltaics and solar thermal, wind, biomass and geothermal, and the production and use of hydrogen and sustainable fuels.可再生与新兴能源： 光伏与光热、风能、生物质与地热、氢能与可持续燃料的制备与利用。

• Integrated energy systems: multi-energy complementarity and sector coupling, district energy, combined cooling, heating and power, and the planning and operation of integrated systems.综合能源系统： 多能互补与部门耦合、区域能源系统、冷热电三联供、综合能源系统的规划与运行。

• Energy networks and grids: power system planning and operation, smart grids and microgrids, virtual power plants and demand response, and electricity market design and mechanism.能源网络与电网： 电力系统规划与运行、智能电网与微网、虚拟电厂与需求响应、电力市场设计与机制。

• Storage and decarbonisation: electrochemical and thermal storage, carbon capture, utilisation and storage, decarbonisation pathways for transport and industry, and assessment of negative emission technologies.储能与脱碳： 电化学与热储能、碳捕集利用与封存、交通与工业脱碳路径、负排放技术评价。

• Modelling, data and policy: energy system modelling and forecasting, energy data and artificial intelligence methods, modelling of user behaviour, and assessment of the environmental and economic effects of energy policy.建模、数据与政策： 能源系统建模与预测、能源大数据与人工智能方法、用户行为建模、能源政策的环境与经济影响评估。

The journal is hybrid and the gold open access article processing charge is 4,210 US dollars. The publisher reports one day to first decision, fifty-four days to a decision after review and 127 days to acceptance, the first-decision figure including editorial screening本刊为混合出版，金色开放获取的文章处理费为四千二百一十美元；出版方公布投稿至首次决定一天、复审后决定五十四天、投稿至接收一百二十七天，其中首次决定包含编辑部初筛，录用比例未公布。 no acceptance rate is published.^[1]

History

• Founding (1975): volume 1, issue 1 appeared in January 1975 under Applied Science Publishers. The journal was launched in the aftermath of the first oil shock and was conceived from the outset as a venue for engineering and economic research on the conversion, conservation and optimal use of energy.创刊（1975年）： 1975 年 1 月出版第 1 卷第 1 期，创刊时由（Applied Science Publishers）出版，正值第一次石油危机之后，创刊定位即为能源的转换、节约与最优利用提供工程与经济研究园地。^[2]

• Publisher and frequency: publication later passed to Elsevier with the absorption of Applied Science Publishers. Frequency moved from quarterly in the early years to bimonthly and then monthly, and the journal is now semimonthly with twenty-four issues a year and volume numbers past three hundred.出版方与刊期沿革： 出版方后随（Applied Science Publishers）并入爱思唯尔体系；刊期由创刊初期的季刊加密为双月刊、再改为月刊，现为半月刊，每年二十四期，卷号已排至三百余卷。^[3]

• Fiftieth anniversary and scale (2025): 2025 marked the fiftieth year of the journal, marked by a commemorative special issue. The journal now receives more than twenty thousand submissions a year, one of the largest submission loads in energy research, and a fully open access sister title, Advances in Applied Energy, draws off part of the flow.五十周年与体量（2025年）： 2025 年为本刊创刊五十周年，出版方组织纪念专刊；本刊现年收稿逾两万件，是能源领域投稿量最大的刊物之一，并另设完全开放获取的姊妹刊《应用能源进展》分流稿件。^[2]

• Metrics and indexing: the impact factor is 12.2 and the CiteScore 22.1. The journal is indexed in Scopus and the Science Citation Index Expanded but not in MEDLINE, and sits in the first quartile of several categories including energy and fuels, engineering and chemical engineering.指标与收录： 影响因子 12.2、引用分数 22.1；本刊被 Scopus 与科学引文索引扩展版收录，未收入 MEDLINE，在能源与燃料、工程与化工等多个类别中同列一区。^[1]

Editors

The journal is run by two co-editors-in-chief, one in Portugal and one in the United Kingdom, whose research lies in electricity markets and in energy system optimisation respectively, a pairing that matches the journal's dual engineering and economic orientation. The board is large and organised by energy technology.本刊现由两名共同主编主持，两人分处葡萄牙与英国，研究方向分别为电力市场与能源系统优化，这一组合对应本刊「工程加经济」的双重取向；编委会规模较大，按能源技术方向分组。^[4]

• Present co-editors-in-chief: Zita A. Vale of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto works on electricity markets and smart grids, and Jianzhong Wu of Cardiff University on integrated energy systems and multi-energy complementarity. The publisher does not state the year of either appointment.现任共同主编： （Zita A. Vale）供职于波尔图理工学院，研究电力市场与智能电网；（吴建中）供职于卡迪夫大学，研究综合能源系统与多能互补；出版方未公布两人的就任年份。^[4]

• Predecessor: Jinyue Yan led the journal for a long period, during which its impact factor rose from single digits into the teens and its frequency expanded from monthly to semimonthly前任主编： （严晋跃）曾长期主持本刊，任职期间本刊影响因子由个位数升至十以上并完成由月刊到半月刊的扩版，卸任后共同主编制确立；首任主编的人选出版方未予列出。 the co-editorship was established after his departure. The publisher does not list the founding editor.^[5]

• Role in the field: the journal has long been a meeting ground for energy systems research and energy policy analysis. The models and datasets it publishes are often taken up directly by later studies and by industry planning, and it is one of the few energy titles that covers engineering and economics together.学科角色： 本刊长期是能源系统研究与能源政策分析的交叉园地，其刊载的建模方法与数据集常被后续研究与产业规划直接采用，也是能源领域少有的同时覆盖工程与经济的刊物。^[6]