Journal of Fusion Energy

Journal of Fusion Energy is a Springer title published on the Springer Nature Link platform and sold on a hybrid model.聚变能杂志是施普林格旗下的刊物，在 Springer Nature Link 平台上出版，采用混合出版模式。

Manuscripts are reviewed single blind, and the journal judges work on the design, construction and operation of thermonuclear fusion sources.稿件按单盲评审处理，刊物考察的是热核聚变装置的设计，建造与运行。

Its 2025 impact factor is 2.3 and the five-year figure is 2.1.2025 年影响因子 2.3，五年影响因子 2.1。

Two issues make up a volume, so volume 44 carries 2025 and volume 45 carries 2026.每卷两期，第 44 卷对应 2025 年，第 45 卷对应 2026 年。

The median submission reaches a first decision in two days, and the journal counted 175,000 downloads in 2025.投稿到首次决定的中位时间是两天，2025 年下载量记到 17.5 万次。

Scope

• The forum is the design, construction and operation of public and private thermonuclear fusion sources.刊物提供的论坛覆盖公立与私营热核聚变装置的设计，建造和运行。

• The range runs from major power plants down to fusion-based sources built for industrial applications.范围从大型电站一直到为工业应用建造的聚变源。

• The science and technology that directly support those applications stay at the centre of the scope.直接支撑这些应用的科学与技术，仍在刊物范围的中心。

• A widened remit now takes in business-driven applications of newer fusion technologies.扩大后的范围还纳入新技术面向商业的应用。

• Commercialisation brings policy and planning questions into the journal.商业化把政策与规划问题带进了刊物。

• Systems engineering belongs to the same commercial remit.系统工程归在同一个商业化框架下。

• Industrial safety and regulation are named beside it.工业安全与监管与它并列写明。

• Supply chains and maintenance sit inside the long-term policy analysis the editors ask for.供应链与维护属于编辑部所要求的长期政策分析。

• Fusion energy in the context of the sustainable development goals is listed as well.聚变能在可持续发展目标语境下的议题同样列出。

• Design reports on pilot plants and prototypes are sought by name.试验电厂与原型的方案报告被点名征集。

• Systems and control engineering for fusion facilities forms a target area of its own.面向聚变设施的系统与控制工程单独列为一个目标领域。

• Computing and software work on fusion sources, digital twins included, is welcomed.针对聚变源的计算与软件开发也在欢迎之列，数字孪生同样算在内。

• Waste management and socio-economic impact studies fall under the sustainability heading.废物管理与经济社会影响研究归在可持续这一项下。

• Applications and commercialisation cover fusion electricity and fusion engines.应用与商业化涵盖聚变发电与聚变发动机。

• Hybrid energy systems built around fusion sources are in scope.以聚变源为核心的混合能源系统在范围之内。

• Artificial intelligence applied to diagnostics is the first frontier topic the editors name.用于诊断的人工智能是编辑部列出的第一个前沿题目。

• Advanced and aneutronic blankets appear next in that list.先进包层与无中子包层紧随其后出现在同一份清单里。

• Liquid metal plasma-facing components close the list of frontier topics.液态金属面向等离子体部件是前沿题目清单的最后一项。

• A paper on economics, society, environment or policy has to tie its bibliography to the current state of the art.写经济，社会，环境或政策的论文，参考文献必须接到当前技术水平的实处。

• Papers tied explicitly to military applications of fusion sources are not accepted.明确关联聚变源军事应用的论文不予接收。

• Non-proliferation, safety and security stay inside the scope.防扩散，安全与安保仍在范围之内。

• Research papers, technical reports and review articles are the three published forms.研究论文，技术报告与综述是刊物接收的三种文稿。

• The board may commission short editorials and longer perspective papers, and those go through internal review focused on the argument.编委会可以约请短篇社论与篇幅较长的展望文章，这类稿件走内部评审，只看论证是否成立。

• A collection on liquid metals for fusion, ISLA-9, stays open for submissions until 30 November 2026.聚变用液态金属的 ISLA-9 专题仍在征稿，截止日期为 2026 年 11 月 30 日。

• Editable source files in Word or LaTeX are required at submission and again at revision, and a paper without them does not enter review.投稿时须交可编辑的 Word 或 LaTeX 源文件，修改稿要再交一次，缺了源文件的稿子进不了评审。

• Each accepted article comes with 25 free offprints, and further copies are ordered on the form sent with the proofs.每篇录用文章附赠 25 份抽印本，需要更多可在随校样寄出的表单上追加。

• A paper on tritium breeding in inertial fusion systems, published in October 2026, is the sort of engineering result the journal takes.2026 年 10 月刊出的一篇惯性聚变系统氚增殖论文，正是刊物接收的那类工程结果。

• Solid breeder chemistry, tokamak current drive and fuel-cycle modelling turn up in the same October 2026 batch.固态增殖剂化学，托卡马克电流驱动与燃料循环建模出现在同一批 2026 年 10 月稿件里。

History

• Volume 1 carried the 1981 date and ran to four issues between January and October.第 1 卷标注 1981 年，在 1 月至 10 月间出了 4 期。

• By 2020 the journal was printing six issues a year.到 2020 年，刊物一年出 6 期。

• The schedule has since narrowed to two issues a year, dated June and December.此后出版节奏收窄为一年 2 期，分别标注 6 月与 12 月。

• Volume 42 covered 2023 and volume 43 covered 2024.第 42 卷对应 2023 年，第 43 卷对应 2024 年。

• The 2021 impact factor stood at 1.486.2021 年影响因子为 1.486。

• 2022 lifted it to 1.793, and 2023 to 1.9.2022 年升到 1.793，2023 年为 1.9。

• 2024 brought 2.1 and 2025 brought 2.3, the highest the title has recorded.2024 年为 2.1，2025 年达到 2.3，是该刊迄今最高值。

• The 2025 window holds 52 articles and 1,065 citations behind them.2025 年窗口内有 52 篇文章，背后是 1065 次被引。

• Gold open access accounted for 43.94 percent of that window, the rest sitting behind the subscription wall.金色开放获取在这一窗口占 43.94%，其余内容仍在订阅墙后。

• The article influence score of 0.514 puts the journal sixth of 42 and in the first quartile.论文影响分值 0.514，在 42 种刊中排第 6，属第一四分位。

• The citation indicator is 0.77, thirteenth of 42 and in the second quartile.期刊引文指标 0.77，在 42 种刊中排第 13，属第二四分位。

• Clarivate files it under nuclear science and technology, where the impact factor ranks 12th of 42.科睿唯安把它归入核科学与技术，影响因子在该类 42 种刊中排第 12。

• Recent papers carry article numbers rather than page ranges, so the October 2026 batch runs from Article 64 to Article 66.近期论文按文章编号排列而非页码范围，2026 年 10 月的一批从第 64 号排到第 66 号。

• Clarivate counts 61 citable items behind the 52 articles of the 2025 window.科睿唯安为 2025 年窗口计数 61 个可引文献，对应的发表文章为 52 篇。

• The immediacy index for that window is 0.2.同一窗口的即年指标为 0.2。

Editors

• Didier Mazon of CEA Cadarache holds the chair for fusion science and engineering.来自原子能委员会卡达拉什中心的 Didier Mazon 担任聚变科学与工程方面的主编。

• Richard Pearson of Eindhoven University of Technology and StandardX holds the chair for fusion industry and commercialisation.埃因霍温理工大学与 StandardX 的 Richard Pearson 担任聚变工业与商业化方面的主编。

• The two chairs split the board between laboratory fusion work and the commercial side of the field.两个主编席位把编委会分成实验室研究与产业一侧。

• Thomas Davis, of the Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor and of Oxford Sigma, is an associate editor.班戈大学核未来研究所与 Oxford Sigma 的 Thomas Davis 是副编辑。

• Rui Ding works at the Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei and holds the same rank.合肥等离子体物理研究所的 Rui Ding 同为副编辑。

• James Morris of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority in Abingdon is an associate editor.英国原子能管理局阿宾登总部的 James Morris 是副编辑。

• Masayuki Ono at Princeton University holds the same rank.普林斯顿大学的 Masayuki Ono 同为副编辑。

• Guinevere Shaw of Rutherford Energy Ventures in Cambridge, United States, completes the associate editors drawn from industry.美国坎布里奇 Rutherford Energy Ventures 的 Guinevere Shaw 是来自产业界的又一位副编辑。

• Jesús Vega Sánchez at CIEMAT in Madrid is an associate editor.马德里能源环境与技术研究中心的 Jesús Vega Sánchez 是副编辑。

• Geert Verdoolaege of Ghent University holds the same rank.根特大学的 Geert Verdoolaege 同为副编辑。

• Hiroshi Yamada at the University of Tokyo is an associate editor.东京大学的 Hiroshi Yamada 是副编辑。

• Tara Ahmadi, also at the University of Tokyo, serves as assistant editor.同样在东京大学的 Tara Ahmadi 担任助理编辑。

• The board draws on fusion laboratories in France, China, the United Kingdom, the United States, Spain, Belgium and Japan.编委分布在法国，中国，英国，美国，西班牙，比利时与日本的聚变实验室。

• Industry seats come from Oxford Sigma, Rutherford Energy Ventures and StandardX.产业界的席位来自 Oxford Sigma，Rutherford Energy Ventures 与 StandardX。