Carbon Trends

Carbon Trends is a gold open access journal published by Elsevier since 2020 as a companion to Carbon, covering carbon materials science from bulk carbons to low-dimensional structures, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.8.《碳趋势》（Carbon Trends）由（Elsevier）以金色开放获取模式出版，2020 年创刊，是（Carbon）的姊妹刊，覆盖从块体碳到低维结构的碳材料科学，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8。

Scope

• The core of the journal is new and significant results on material systems in which carbon plays the central role.期刊的核心是碳在其中起中心作用的材料体系所取得的新颖且重要的结果。
• Coverage runs from traditional bulk carbons such as graphite, carbon black and activated carbon to nanotubes, graphene and other two-dimensional carbons.覆盖范围从石墨、炭黑与活性炭等传统块体碳，延伸至纳米管、石墨烯及其他二维碳材料。
• Composites, nitrides, carbides and graphene-like low-dimensional materials of similar composition or morphology are considered.复合材料、氮化物、碳化物，以及组成或形貌相近的石墨烯类低维材料，均在考虑之列。
• Theoretical and computational studies of carbon materials are explicitly sought, including methods developed for carbon research.期刊明确欢迎碳材料的理论与计算研究，包括为碳研究专门开发的方法。
• Energy storage and conversion, catalysis, sensing, adsorption and environmental applications are recurrent subjects.储能与能量转换、催化、传感、吸附以及环境应用，是反复出现的主题。
• Synthesis, structure, characterisation and property relationships are treated across physics, chemistry and materials engineering.合成、结构、表征与性能关系，在物理学、化学与材料工程学的交叉中得到处理。
• Articles are published online as soon as they are accepted, without being held for an issue.文章一经录用即在线发表，不等待汇编成期。

History

• Carbon Trends was launched by Elsevier in 2020 as a fully open access companion to Carbon, a title the publisher had run for more than fifty years.本刊由（Elsevier）于 2020 年创办，是其经营五十余年的（Carbon）的完全开放获取姊妹刊。
• The first volume opened in November 2020, and Vincent Meunier moved from senior editor of Carbon to lead the new title.首卷于 2020 年 11 月开卷，Vincent Meunier 由（Carbon）高级编辑转任本刊主编。
• Publication fees were waived at the outset to attract content, and the journal was pitched as a fast route for sound carbon research.创刊初期免收出版费以吸引稿源，期刊定位为发表可靠碳研究成果的快速通道。
• Every submission is screened by the editor-in-chief before at least two external reviews are sought.所有投稿先由主编初筛，随后至少送两位外部审稿人评审。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 5.8, against 3.9 in 2024, and the title is indexed in ESCI rather than SCIE.2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8，2024 年为 3.9，收录于（ESCI）而非（SCIE）。
• It sits in the second quartile of materials science, multidisciplinary, with a JCI percentile of 58.25.期刊在材料科学综合类处于第二四分位，期刊引文指标百分位为 58.25。

Editors

• Vincent Meunier of Pennsylvania State University is editor-in-chief and works on nanocarbons, nanoribbons and computational nanoscience.宾夕法尼亚州立大学的 Vincent Meunier 担任主编，研究纳米碳、纳米带与计算纳米科学。
• A senior advisory board comprises Hui-Ming Cheng of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Robert Hurt of Brown University and Mauricio Terrones of Pennsylvania State University.高级顾问委员会由深圳先进技术研究院的 Hui-Ming Cheng、布朗大学的 Robert Hurt 与宾夕法尼亚州立大学的 Mauricio Terrones 组成。
• Lin Jiang of Shanghai University is the associate editor handling manuscripts across the journal's remit.上海大学的 Lin Jiang 担任副编辑，处理全刊范围的稿件。
• The board has thirty-five members from fourteen countries, with the United States, China and France the largest contingents.编委会共三十五人，来自十四个国家，美国、中国与法国人数最多。
• An Early Career Editorial Board of fifteen researchers was added to bring in newer voices.另设由十五名研究者组成的青年编委会，以引入更年轻的声音。
• Carbon Trends is a companion title rather than a competitor to Carbon, and the two share editorial standards but not impact-based selection.本刊是（Carbon）的姊妹刊而非竞争刊，两者共享编辑标准，但本刊不以即时影响力作为取舍依据。