Current Opinion in Electrochemistry

Current Opinion in Electrochemistry is a bimonthly review journal launched by Elsevier in 2017, publishing expert reviews and annotated evaluations of the year's most interesting papers across electrochemistry, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 6.5.Current Opinion in Electrochemistry 是爱思唯尔 2017 年创办的双月刊综述期刊，发表电化学领域的专家综述及对年度重要文献的评点，2025 年影响因子为 6.5。

Scope

• The journal's subject is divided into twelve themed sections, each reviewed once a year, so that the field is comprehensively covered and issues of current importance are emphasised.刊物将电化学学科划分为十二个主题栏目，每年轮换评审一次，确保领域覆盖全面并突出当前重要问题。
• Sections include Bioelectrochemistry, Electrocatalysis, Electrochemical Materials and Engineering, and Energy Storage: Batteries and Supercapacitors.栏目包括生物电化学、电催化、电化学材料与工程以及储能：电池与超级电容器。
• Further sections cover Energy Transformation, Environmental Electrochemistry and Surface Electrochemistry, reflecting applications from clean energy to water treatment.其他栏目还涵盖能量转化、环境电化学与表面电化学，反映从清洁能源到水处理的应用面向。
• Fundamental and methodological topics are represented by the sections on Fundamental & Theoretical Electrochemistry, Innovative Methods in Electrochemistry, Organic & Molecular Electrochemistry, and Physical & Nano-Electrochemistry.基础与方法学方向由基础与理论电化学、电化学新方法、有机与分子电化学以及物理与纳米电化学等栏目构成。
• Sensing completes the twelve sections through Sensors & Bio-sensors, spanning electrochemical sensors, diagnostics and near-patient monitoring.传感方向由传感器与生物传感器栏目构成，涵盖电化学传感器、诊断与贴近患者监测。
• Reviews are short articles in which invited authors present recent developments and annotate the papers they consider most interesting from the previous year, and each section opens with an Editorial Overview by its Section Editor.综述为短文，由受邀作者介绍近期进展并评点其认为上一年度最有趣的文献，每个栏目以栏目编辑撰写的编辑综述开篇。
• The journal continues the Current Opinion series concept of helping specialists keep up with the expanding volume of information published in their field, in a systematic and readable form.本刊延续「Current Opinion」系列的理念，以系统化、易读的方式帮助专家跟进本领域快速膨胀的信息量。

History

• Elsevier announced the launch of the journal in Amsterdam on 14 July 2016 as the latest addition to its Current Opinion titles, and the first volume appeared in 2017.爱思唯尔于 2016 年 7 月 14 日在阿姆斯特丹宣布创办本刊，作为其 Current Opinion 系列的最新成员，首卷于 2017 年出版。
• The founding Editors-in-Chief were Professor Richard G. Compton of the University of Oxford and Professor Hasuck Kim of the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), South Korea.创刊联合主编为英国牛津大学的 Richard G. Compton 教授与韩国大邱庆北科学技术院（DGIST）的 Hasuck Kim 教授。
• Compton and Kim set out the journal's aims in an editorial in the first issue of 2017, describing electrochemistry as an intensively active area underpinning applications from chemical sensors to energy transformation technology.两位创刊主编在 2017 年首期社论中阐述了办刊目标，称电化学是一个高度活跃的领域，支撑着从化学传感器到能量转化技术的广泛应用。^[1]
• The journal has been published from the outset in Amsterdam by Elsevier, part of the RELX Group, and appears in six volumes a year on a bimonthly schedule.本刊自创刊起由阿姆斯特丹的爱思唯尔（RELX 集团成员）出版，按双月刊节奏每年出版六卷。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 7.271 in 2021 and 7.664 in 2022, before settling at 6.9 in 2024 and 6.5 in 2025, and it ranks in the first quartile of the JCR Electrochemistry category.其影响因子 2021 年为 7.271、2022 年为 7.664，2024 年为 6.9，2025 年为 6.5，在 JCR 电化学学科中位列第一区（Q1）。
• The journal offers authors a choice between subscription publication and gold open access under CC BY, CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND licences, with an open access fee payable for the latter.本刊为作者提供订阅出版与金色开放获取两种选择，后者可采用 CC BY、CC BY-NC 或 CC BY-NC-ND 许可并需支付开放获取费用。

Editors

• The Editor-in-Chief is Professor Zhichuan J. Xu, President's Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, known for research on spin electrocatalysis and energy materials.主编为新加坡南洋理工大学材料科学与工程学院的校长讲席教授 Zhichuan J. Xu，以自旋电催化与能源材料研究知名。
• Hasuck Kim of DGIST continues to serve on the board as Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief, while Yue Lin (University of Science and Technology of China) and Francesco Paolucci (University of Bologna) serve as Senior Editors.DGIST 的 Hasuck Kim 以创刊联合主编身份留任编委会，中国科学技术大学的 Yue Lin 与博洛尼亚大学的 Francesco Paolucci 担任高级编辑。
• The editorial board lists thirty-seven editors and board members from twenty countries and regions, with the largest contingents from China (six), the United Kingdom (five) and Australia (two).编委会共有来自二十个国家与地区的 37 名编辑与编委，其中中国（6 人）、英国（5 人）与澳大利亚（2 人）人数最多。
• Section Editors, appointed as major authorities in their fields, divide their sections into topics and commission reviews, and their decisions on proposals are final.栏目编辑由领域权威学者担任，将本栏目划分为若干专题并组织邀稿，其对选题建议的决定为最终决定。
• In addition to the established invitation route, the journal offers a spontaneous submission option: authors may send a proposal of no more than 1000 words to the Editorial Office, specifying the section to which it applies.除传统的邀稿途径外，本刊还提供自发投稿选项：作者可向编辑部提交不超过 1000 字的选题建议并注明所投栏目。
• The journal reports fast handling, with a median of nine days from submission to first decision and about seven days from acceptance to online publication.刊物处理速度较快，从投稿到首次决定的中位时间为 9 天，从接受到在线发表约 7 天。