Battery Energy

Battery Energy is an open-access interdisciplinary journal devoted to batteries and electrochemical energy that is owned by the Chinese institution Xijing University, published by Wiley from 2022, and that holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 11.1 placing it in the first quartile of the Electrochemistry category（Battery Energy）是一份专注电池与电化学能源的开放获取交叉学期刊，由中国高校西京学院主办、由（Wiley）自 2022 年起出版，2025 年影响因子为 11.1，在电化学学科居 Q1 区。

Scope

• Its stated goal is to build a top-tier international multidisciplinary journal that breaks through traditional disciplinary boundaries, covering battery energy from fundamental materials to applied devices其办刊目标是打造打破传统学科界限的顶级国际综合期刊，覆盖电池能源从基础材料到应用器件的各环节。
• Author-supplied keywords map the field onto energy storage and energy conversion, advanced energy materials, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis and batteries in the broad sense作者关键词把该领域标定为能源存储与能源转换、先进能源材料、电催化、光催化，以及广义的电池。
• Subject coverage runs from novel materials and advanced manufacturing to the emerging interdisciplinary hot spots of the field, filling gaps left between separate traditional disciplines学科覆盖从新材料与先进制造延伸到该领域的新兴交叉热点，填补若干传统学科之间的空白。
• Accepted manuscript types include original research articles, short communications, reviews, perspective articles and commentaries接收的稿件类型包括原创研究论文、通讯、综述、观点文章与评论。
• In library classification the journal is shelved with the production of electric energy and power under plant and central-station topics在图书分类体系中，该刊被归入电能生产、电站与中枢站等主题类。
• Every accepted paper is made freely and immediately available online under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, with copyright retained by the author每篇录用论文均以知识共享署名许可即时免费在线获取，版权归作者保留。

History

• The journal was established by Xijing University, a university in Xi'an in northwestern China, and its first volume appeared in 2022, opening with studies such as an all Prussian-blue-analog sodium-ion battery该刊由位于中国西北西安的西京学院创办，第 1 卷于 2022 年出版，开篇论文之一是关于全普鲁士蓝类似物钠离子电池的研究。^[1]
• For its first three years of existence, spanning 2022 to 2024, the journal waived all article publication charges, after which a standard open-access article-processing charge of three thousand US dollars came into effect在 2022 至 2024 年的创刊头三年，该刊豁免全部文章出版费，此后开始按 3000 美元的标准开放获取文章处理费收费。
• It was indexed early in the INSPEC, Directory of Open Access Journals, Ei Compendex and Scopus databases and was admitted to the Emerging Sources Citation Index of Web of Science它较早即被（INSPEC）、开放获取期刊目录、（Ei Compendex）与（Scopus）收录，并进入（Web of Science）的新兴来源索引（ESCI）。
• In the June 2024 release of the Journal Citation Reports it earned its first Journal Impact Factor of 9.9, ranking fifth of forty-five journals in Electrochemistry and twenty-fourth in Energy and Fuels在 2024 年 6 月发布的期刊引证报告中，它获得首个 9.9 的影响因子，在电化学类 45 种期刊中列第 5、在能源与燃料类列第 24。
• In the 2025 Journal Citation Reports its Journal Impact Factor rose to 11.1, sustaining first-quartile positions in electrochemistry, energy and fuels and multidisciplinary materials science在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，其影响因子升至 11.1，在电化学、能源与燃料以及综合材料科学类均保持 Q1 区。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Yong-Mook Kang, a professor at Korea University in Seoul, who heads the editorial board主编为（Yong-Mook Kang）教授，任职于首尔的高丽大学，主持编委会。
• Two honorary Editors-in-Chief appear on the masthead, Shi-Xue Dou of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Jun Lu of Zhejiang University刊面列有两位荣誉主编，即上海理工大学的窦士学与浙江大学的陆俊。
• Below them sits an editorial board that the host reports as some fifty-four scholars, including many national distinguished young-scholar grantees and Clarivate highly cited researchers其下设编委会，主办方称约 54 位学者，其中包含多位国家杰出青年科学基金获得者与科睿唯安全球高被引科学家。
• Editors are drawn from both China and abroad, among them researchers from the Qingdao institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, University College London, the Queensland University of Technology and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University编辑兼跨海内外，其中包括来自中国科学院青岛生物能源与过程研究所、伦敦大学学院、昆士兰科技大学与香港理工大学等的研究者。
• Day-to-day editorial work is led by Zongcheng Miao of Northwestern Polytechnical University acting as executive editor, with the hosting Xijing University providing institutional support日常编辑事务由西北工业大学苗宗成任编辑部主任主持，并由主办方西京学院提供机构支撑。
• Manuscripts are screened and handled by a professional editorial team, and the journal states its peer-review model as single anonymous review稿件由专业编辑团队逐稿把关处理，期刊声明其评审方式为单匿名同行评审。