Energy & Environmental Science
Energy & Environmental Science (commonly abbreviated as EES) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), issued monthly. It publishes agenda-setting research for the energy transition and the environment, addressed to chemical scientists, chemical and process engineers, energy researchers, bio-scientists and environmental scientists across academia, industry and government.《能源与环境科学》（Energy & Environmental Science'，常用缩写为 EES''）是英国皇家化学学会（Royal Society of Chemistry 简称 RSC）出版的同行评审学术期刊，月刊发行。该刊面向能源转型与环境领域的议程设定型研究，读者涵盖学术界、产业界与政府部门的化学家、化工与过程工程师、能源研究者、生物科学家与环境科学家。
Scope
The journal describes itself as dedicated to publishing exceptionally important and high quality, agenda-setting research tackling the key global and societal challenges of ensuring the provision of energy and protecting the environment, with a subtitle promising exceptional research to accelerate the global energy transition. The implication is that the criterion is not research quality as such but whether a study would change the field's judgement about which paths matter, so a rigorous but incremental improvement falls outside scope. The readership spans chemistry, process engineering, energy, biology and the environment, which explains the title's agenda influence beyond the chemical journals proper. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的官方定位是为具有卓越重要性与高质量的议程设定型研究而设，副题为「加速全球能源转型的卓越研究」。这一表述意味着本刊的取舍标准不是研究质量本身，而是该研究是否能够改变领域内对路径的判断——一项严谨但属于渐进改良的工作在此不在收稿之列。读者定位横跨化学、过程工程、能源、生物与环境五个学科，这一跨度也解释了本刊为何在传统化学刊物之外具有议程影响力。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：[1]
- Photovoltaics and solar conversion: perovskite and organic photovoltaics, solar cell materials and devices, interfaces and passivation.光伏与太阳能转换： 钙钛矿与有机光伏、太阳能电池材料与器件、界面与钝化。
- Batteries and storage: lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, solid-state electrolytes, battery interfacial chemistry, and scalable manufacturing.电池与储能： 锂离子与钠离子电池、固态电解质、电池界面化学与规模化制造。
- Catalysis and reaction engineering: electrocatalysis and photocatalysis, carbon capture and conversion, and reactor design and process intensification.催化与反应工程： 电催化与光催化、碳捕集与转化、反应器设计与过程强化。
- Hydrogen and fuels: water electrolysis for hydrogen, hydrogen storage and transport, and synthetic and biofuels.氢能与燃料： 电解水制氢、氢储存与输运、合成燃料与生物燃料。
- Carbon dioxide utilisation and abatement: carbon dioxide capture, mineralisation and utilisation, and abatement pathways and life cycle assessment.二氧化碳利用与减排： 二氧化碳捕集、矿化利用、减排路径与生命周期评价。
- Environmental materials and water treatment: adsorption and separation materials, degradation catalysis for pollutants, and membrane separation and water treatment.环境材料与水处理： 吸附与分离材料、污染物降解催化、膜分离与水处理。
The journal appears monthly, is published in hybrid mode, and the society publishes no acceptance rate. The traceable figures are eight days to first decision on all manuscripts and forty days to decision after peer review, which must be read as two different things, the first including editorial screening and the second being the post-review decision. The chair of the editorial board has spoken in a public interview of a rejection rate above ninety per cent, which is a personal interview statement rather than an official society metric and should not be mixed with one本刊为月刊，属混合出版模式，学会未公布录用比例。可溯源的口径是：全部稿件的首次决定时间为 8 天，同行评审后的决定时间为 40 天——两个数字须分别理解，前者含编辑部初筛，后者才是评审完成后的决定。编委会主席在公开访谈中曾述及拒稿率超过九成，这是个人访谈口径而非学会官方指标，不应与官方指标混用；与这一访谈口径明显冲突的较低录用率数值不采信。 lower acceptance figures in direct conflict with that statement are not adopted.[1]
History
- Founding year (2008): the journal was founded in 2008, with volume 1 published in that year, a fact verifiable across the full record of articles under its ISSN: every 2008 paper carries volume 1, across issues one to six. The title has been Energy & Environmental Science since its founding and never bore another name. The journal often confused with it, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, is an entirely separate Elsevier title with no continuity to this one.创刊年份（2008年）： 本刊于 2008 年创刊，第 1 卷即 2008 年出版，这一事实可由国际标准刊号下的全部论文记录交叉验证：该年全部论文的卷号字段均为 1，涵盖第 1 至第 6 期。刊名自创刊起即为《能源与环境科学》，从未使用过其他刊名；常被与之混淆的《可再生与可持续能源评论》是爱思唯尔旗下另一本完全不同的刊物，与本刊无继承关系。[2]
- Publisher unchanged: the journal has been published by the Royal Society of Chemistry since its founding, with no change of publisher, the society having carried full publishing responsibility throughout.出版方自创刊起未变： 本刊自创刊起即由英国皇家化学学会出版，从未变更，学会作为出版方一直承担全部出版责任。[1]
- Change of board chair (2023): Jenny Nelson became chair of the editorial board in February 2023. In a public interview she described herself as the chair of the board, responsible for the journal's development and for leading the board's work, and gave the qualitative statement about rejection rates noted above.编委会主席更替（2023年）： 珍妮·纳尔逊自 2023 年 2 月起出任本刊编委会主席。她在公开访谈中以本刊编委会主席身份自述负责期刊的发展大计并领导编委会工作，同时给出拒稿率的定性表述。[3]
- Metric standing: the society's journal page reports an impact factor of 30.5 for 2025, with eight days to first decision and forty days after peer review. No official CiteScore could be traced to a society page, and the journal page does not list a specific article processing charge for this title.指标水平： 学会官方期刊页显示，本刊二〇二五年影响因子为 30.5，首次决定时间为 8 天、评审后 40 天。引用分数一项未在学会页面溯源到官方值。学会的期刊页面亦未列出本刊的具体文章处理费金额。[1]
Editors
The journal has no editor-in-chief. It runs a two-layer structure of an editorial board chair and an executive editor: the chair is appointed by the society and responsible for the academic direction and for leading the board, while the executive editor is a society employee responsible for manuscript flow and publishing execution, with two deputy editors alongside. This follows the society's own publishing convention and means that the editorial direction of the journal rests on the chair's academic judgement while its daily process is carried by staff.本刊不设主编一职，而采用编委会主席与执行编辑并存的双层制：主席由学会任命、负责期刊的学术方向与编委会领导，执行编辑为学会雇员、负责稿件流程与出版执行，另设两位副编辑。这一架构与皇家化学学会的办刊传统一致，也意味着本刊的编辑方向由主席的学术判断决定，而日常流程由学会雇员承担。[4]
- Jenny Nelson (chair of the editorial board since February 2023): a Royal Society Research Professor at Imperial College London. She took the chair of a journal already carrying an impact factor in the thirties, which raises correspondingly the bar for the agenda-setting value expected of manuscripts, and helps explain her description of the journal's screening intensity as a rejection rate above ninety per cent.珍妮·纳尔逊（2023年2月起任编委会主席）： 帝国理工学院皇家学会研究教授。她在本任内面对的是一份影响因子已达三十量级的刊物，其对稿件议程设定价值的要求相应提高，这也解释了为何她在访谈中以拒稿率超过九成来描述本刊的实际筛选强度。[4]
- Executive and deputy editors: the executive editor is Emma Eley, a society employee, and the two deputy editors are Edward Gardner and Sarah Holmes. Day-to-day handling of manuscripts falls to the executive editor post.执行编辑与副编辑： 执行编辑为艾玛·伊利，学会雇员；两位副编辑为爱德华·加德纳与萨拉·霍姆斯。日常稿件处理由执行编辑一职承担。[4]
- Founding editorship: the editor-in-chief at founding is not established by an authoritative source. One claim in circulation points to Nathan Lewis at the California Institute of Technology, but the sources for it contradict themselves, giving two widely divergent impact factor figures for the same journal on the same site, and it is therefore not adopted.创刊主编： 本刊创刊时的主编未获权威来源证实。流传的说法之一指向加州理工学院的纳撒利·刘易斯，但相关来源自相矛盾——同一站点在同一刊物上给出两个差异悬殊的影响因子数值，无法作为可靠依据，故不予采信。[4]
- Standing in the field: the journal occupies an agenda-setting position in the publication of energy transition research, and its papers are cited directly in policy documents and industrial roadmaps. The society's own subtitle, promising exceptional research to accelerate the global energy transition, matches the position its metrics hold.学科地位： 本刊在能源转型研究的发表上处于议程设定位置，其论文常被政策文件与产业路线图直接引用；学会将其副题定为「加速全球能源转型的卓越研究」，这一自我定位与它在指标上的位置相称。[1]