Joule

Joule is a monthly energy research journal launched in 2017 by Cell Press, a sister journal to Cell, addressing the global challenge of more sustainable energy, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 37.1《焦耳》（Joule）是（Cell Press）于 2017 年创办的月刊能源研究期刊，为（Cell）的姊妹刊，聚焦更可持续能源这一全球挑战，2025 年期刊影响因子为 37.1。

Scope

• It is a home for outstanding and insightful research, analysis and ideas addressing a key global challenge, the need for more sustainable energy该刊为应对「更可持续能源」这一关键全球挑战的卓越且富于洞见的研究、分析与观点提供平台。
• It is a distinctive and forward-looking journal that bridges disciplines and scales of energy research该刊是一本独具特色、面向未来的期刊，跨越能源研究的学科与尺度。
• It connects all who are researching and analysing the scientific, technical, economic, policy and social challenges of providing sustainable energy solutions该刊连接所有研究并分析可持续能源解决方案所涉科学、技术、经济、政策与社会挑战的人。
• Its coverage spans scales of energy research, from fundamental laboratory research into energy conversion and storage up to impactful analysis at the global level其覆盖跨越能源研究的多个尺度，从能量转换与存储的基础实验室研究直到具有全球影响的分析。
• It purposefully highlights and amplifies the implications, challenges and opportunities of novel energy research for different groups across the energy field该刊有意凸显并放大新颖能源研究对能源领域不同群体的意涵、挑战与机遇。
• Its topics include renewable energy such as solar and wind, bioenergy, energy storage and batteries, catalysis and other energy conversion technologies其主题包括太阳能与风能等可再生能源、生物能源、储能与电池、催化及其他能量转换技术。^[1]
• It publishes both original research articles and review articles该刊发表原创研究论文与综述文章。
• Alongside primary research it also publishes analysis and commentary that place energy advances in a broader context除原创研究外，该刊还发表将能源进展置于更广阔背景下的分析与评论。

History

• It was launched in 2017 by Cell Press, and its first issue, Volume 1, Issue 1, appeared on 6 September 2017该刊由（Cell Press）于 2017 年创办，创刊号即第 1 卷第 1 期于 2017 年 9 月 6 日出版。
• It is published by Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, from Cambridge, Massachusetts该刊由（Cell Press）——（Elsevier）旗下的出版品牌——在美国马萨诸塞州剑桥市出版。
• It is a sister journal to Cell该刊是（Cell）的姊妹刊。
• It is one of Cell Press's first physical-sciences journals, alongside Chem该刊与（Chem）同属（Cell Press）最早推出的物理科学期刊。
• It is offered under a hybrid model, with open access available for an article publishing charge of USD 9,350 and a subscription route that carries no fee to authors该刊采用混合出版模式，作者可支付 9,350 美元的文章出版费选择开放获取，或经不向作者收费的订阅途径发表。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 41.248 in 2021 to 46.048 in 2022, 35.4 in 2024 and 37.1 in 2025其期刊影响因子由 2021 年的 41.248 变为 2022 年的 46.048、2024 年的 35.4 与 2025 年的 37.1。
• Its online international standard serial number is 2542-4351其在线国际标准连续出版物号为 2542-4351。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Philip Earis, a graduate of Cambridge University in England who brings more than ten years of experience in publishing impactful energy research现任主编为 Philip Earis，他毕业于英国剑桥大学，拥有十余年发表高影响力能源研究的出版经验。
• Before joining Cell Press he lived in India, where he founded and ran Project Light, an organisation bringing solar power to marginalised off-grid communities加入（Cell Press）之前他旅居印度，创办并运营（Project Light），该组织为边缘化离网社区提供太阳能电力。
• The journal is run by a team of full-time professional scientific editors who make all editorial decisions该刊由一支全职专业科学编辑团队运作，所有编辑决定均由该团队作出。
• On submission a handling editor reads the paper and discusses it with editorial colleagues, assesses the importance of the question and its advance over the literature, then decides whether to send it for review稿件提交后，由一位处理编辑阅读并与编辑同僚讨论，评估问题的重要性及其相对已有文献的推进，再决定是否送审。
• Research articles that are sent out undergo external peer review, and the handling editor manages the review process被送审的研究论文接受外部同行评审，并由处理编辑管理评审流程。
• Review articles form part of the journal's core content alongside original research articles综述文章与原创研究论文共同构成该刊的核心内容。