Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy covers the technologies that make energy without burning carbon, and it takes the engineering as seriously as the physics behind it.《Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy》收的是不烧碳就能产出的那些技术，对工程的重视与对背后的物理一样。
Wind is the largest single subject in recent volumes, and the papers run from turbine aerodynamics through wake interaction to the layout of a whole wind farm.风能是近几卷里最大的一块，稿子从叶片气动，经尾流相互干扰，一路做到整座风电场的布置。
Solar photovoltaics supply the second stream, with cell physics, module degradation and the modelling of irradiance on a site all appearing as separate literatures inside one journal.光伏是第二条水流，电池物理、组件衰减与场址辐照建模，在同一份刊里各自成一片文献。
Grid integration is treated as a subject in itself rather than as an application note. Frequency regulation, storage dispatch and the stability of a system with a high share of inverters are regular titles.并网被当作独立题目，不当应用札记。调频、储能调度与逆变器占比很高的系统如何保持稳定，都是常见标题。
Energy storage papers sit between the materials and the systems. A paper on a battery chemistry and a paper on how a utility sizes a battery bank both belong here.储能类稿子夹在材料与系统之间。讲电池化学的稿子与讲电力公司如何配容量的稿子，都收。
Biomass, geothermal and marine energy fill out the resource side, and the journal has kept room for the smaller technologies that a commercial title would drop.生物质、地热与海洋能补上资源这一侧，对商业气息重的刊会砍掉的小技术，这份刊一直留着位置。
Forecasting is a subject of its own. Wind speed, solar irradiance and load are forecast with statistical models and, increasingly, with machine learning, and the journals in this field compete on forecast error.预测自成一块。风速、辐照与负荷用统计模型来预报，近来更多用机器学习，这一领域的刊物在预报误差上彼此较量。
Economics and policy appear alongside the hardware, because a technology that does not pay back is not a solution, and the journal will publish a study of feed-in tariffs beside one of a converter topology.经济与政策跟硬件并排出现，因为收不回本的技术算不上方案，一份讲上网电价的稿子可以与讲变换器拓扑的稿子并列刊出。
Building energy and efficiency form a further block, and indoor environment work sits inside it rather than in a separate architecture journal.建筑用能与能效另立一块，室内环境的研究放在这块里，不另投建筑类刊。
The journal publishes modelling as evidence, provided the model is validated. A simulation of a wind farm without measurements to hold it up is not what the editors want.这份刊接受建模作为证据，前提是模型经过验证。没有实测数据支撑的风电场仿真，不是编辑要的东西。
Six issues a year carry the content, and the volume grows with the field. Volume 17 of 2025 held 317 papers against 145 in volume 14 of 2022.一年六期装载内容，卷的厚度随领域一起长。2025 年的第 17 卷装了 317 篇，2022 年的第 14 卷是 145 篇。
Reviews are published, but the journal is built on original work. A review here tends to be long and quantitative rather than a tour of the literature.综述也登，但这份刊以原创工作为本。这里的综述偏长、偏定量，不是把文献巡一遍。
The publisher is the American Institute of Physics, which runs the title from its office in Melville, New York, and hosts it on its own platform.出版方是美国物理联合会，在纽约州梅尔维尔办公，替这份刊经营，并放在自家平台上。
PubMed takes selected citations only, so a reader who searches there should not expect the journal's output to be complete.PubMed 只做选择性收录，在那里检索的读者不该指望这份刊的内容齐全。
History
The first volume is dated 2009, and volume 10 in 2018 carried an editorial marking a decade and the end of a tenure.第 1 卷署 2009 年，2018 年的第 10 卷登过一篇社论，既记十年，也记一届任期的结束。
That editorial was written by P. Craig Taylor and John A. Turner, who had opened the journal with a piece announcing a new editorial board in the first volume.那篇社论由 P. Craig Taylor 与 John A. Turner 署名，两人在第 1 卷也是用一篇宣布新编委会成立的文章开的张。
Turner signed an editorial on his own in volume 8 of 2016, so the two editors-in-chief were not tied together on every statement the journal made.Turner 在 2016 年第 8 卷单独署过一篇社论，两位主编并不在刊物每一次表态上都联名。
AIP set the title up in a period when renewable energy research was moving from demonstration projects into grid-scale deployment, and the early volumes show that shift in their subject mix.美国物理联合会在可再生能源研究从示范项目走向电网规模的年代办起这份刊，早年各卷的选题构成里看得出这个转变。
Six issues a year have been the pattern throughout, and volume 18 carries 2026 with five numbers out so far.一年六期自始至终没有变过，第 18 卷对应 2026 年，目前出了五期。
The National Library of Medicine records the frequency as monthly, which does not match the six numbers that each volume actually carries, and the issue data is the more reliable of the two.国家医学图书馆把周期记作月刊，与每卷实有的六个期号并不相符，两相比较，期号数据更可靠。
The Crossref deposit holds 3,677 records, and the run from volume 10 of 2018 is complete in it.Crossref 的存缴有 3,677 条记录，2018 年第 10 卷以来的各卷都齐全。
Output has roughly doubled in eight years, from 145 papers in volume 14 to 317 in volume 17, and the 2026 volume is already at 292.八年间产量大约翻了一倍，从第 14 卷的 145 篇到第 17 卷的 317 篇，2026 年这一卷已经到 292 篇。
The impact factor was 2.219 in 2021 and 2.847 in 2022, then fell to 1.9 in both 2023 and 2024 before recovering to 2.4 in 2025.影响因子 2021 年是 2.219，2022 年 2.847，随后在 2023 与 2024 两年落到 1.9，2025 年回到 2.4。
The five-year figure of 2.3 is just under the two-year figure, so the growth in output has not yet worked through into the long citation window.五年影响因子 2.3 略低于两年值，产量的增长还没有走完那条长的引文窗口。
Total citations are 4,821 and the cited half-life is 6.6 years, a long tail for a field that moves as fast as this one does.总被引 4,821 次，引用半衰期 6.6 年，对一个走得这么快的领域来说，这条尾巴算长。
The Journal Citation Indicator is 0.32. The title is in Q4 of Energy and Fuels at 156 of 191 and in Q4 of Green and Sustainable Science and Technology at 96 of 114, with a percentile of 18.6.期刊引文指标 0.32。它在能源与燃料门类列 Q4，191 种刊中排第 156，在绿色与可持续科学技术门类也列 Q4，114 种刊中排第 96，百分位 18.6。
Gold open access is 6.96 per cent of the content, so the journal is a subscription title with an option, not an open access journal with a paywall.金色开放获取占全部内容的百分之六点九六，这份刊是带选项的订阅刊，不是带收费墙的开放获取刊。
The title is in the Science Citation Index Expanded rather than in the emerging index, which puts it in the main citation database that promotion committees read.这个刊名进的是科学引文索引扩展版，不在新兴索引里，因此落在评职委员会常看的那部主要引文库中。
Subject coverage has widened with the field. Early volumes were heavy on wind and solar, while recent ones carry storage, hydrogen and system flexibility in comparable numbers.覆盖面跟着领域一起变宽。早年各卷以风能与太阳能为主，近年的卷里储能、氢能与系统灵活性占到相当篇幅。
Editors
P. Craig Taylor and John A. Turner were the founding editors-in-chief, and their joint editorial in the first volume set the journal's scope in the language it still uses.创始主编是 P. Craig Taylor 与 John A. Turner，两人在第 1 卷合写的那篇社论，用至今仍在用的措辞定下了范围。
Turner came to the title from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where his work was on photoelectrochemical water splitting, and that subject stayed in the journal's scope after he stepped down.Turner 是从国家可再生能源实验室过来做这份刊的，研究的是光电化学分解水，他卸任之后这个题目仍留在范围里。
Taylor worked on the physics of disordered and photovoltaic materials, which is why papers on thin-film absorption sit beside papers on module engineering.Taylor 做的是无序材料与光伏材料的物理，薄膜吸收与组件工程两类稿子并排刊出，缘由在这里。
Guest editors carry the thematic collections. Giacomo Valerio Iungo, Marco Belloli, Michael Hölling and Paolo Schito edited a collection on wind tunnel research for renewable energy.专题合集由客座编辑承担。Giacomo Valerio Iungo、Marco Belloli、Michael Hölling 与 Paolo Schito 合编过一期讲可再生能源风洞研究的合集。
A second collection in the same year gathered work in preparation for the American Wake Experiment, and Nicholas Hamilton, Iungo and Julie K. Lundquist signed it together.同一年还有一期合集收的是为美国尾流试验做准备的各项工作，由 Nicholas Hamilton、Iungo 与 Julie K. Lundquist 联署。
Collections rather than single special issues are the journal's format, which lets a theme keep growing for a year or more instead of closing on a deadline.这份刊用的是合集而不是单一专号，一个题目因此能长上一年甚至更久，不必赶着一个截稿日关门。
Solar photovoltaics had its own guest editors in the earlier volumes, and Veronica Bermudez wrote both a collection introduction on Japanese solar deployment and an editorial on women in renewable technology.光伏在早年各卷有自己的客座编辑，Veronica Bermudez 既为日本光伏部署那期合集写过导言，也写过一篇讲可再生能源技术领域女性的社论。
Policy and development had editors of their own as well. Abdelilah Slaoui signed an editorial on the Desertec project, and Devinder Mahajan one on energy and the US Department of State.政策与发展也有自己的编辑。Abdelilah Slaoui 为 Desertec 项目写过社论，Devinder Mahajan 写过一篇讲能源与美国国务院的社论。
Wind energy research carried Ray F. Kamada and Torben Mikkelsen as guest editors for a collection on trends in the field, which is the pattern the journal has followed since.风能研究由 Ray F. Kamada 与 Torben Mikkelsen 担任趋势合集的客座编辑，此后这份刊一直沿用这个办法。
The board is weighted toward people who run experiments at scale, because a paper in this journal is expected to survive contact with a real installation.编委会偏向那些做大规模实验的人，因为这份刊上的论文要经得起与真实装置的接触。