Progress in Energy and Combustion Science

Progress in Energy and Combustion Science (commonly abbreviated as Prog. Energy Combust. Sci.) is a review-only bimonthly published by Elsevier, founded in 1975 and an affiliated journal of The Combustion Institute. It prints no original research, works entirely by invitation of the editors, and its impact factor sits at the top of the energy and combustion field year after year.《能源与燃烧科学进展》（Progress in Energy and Combustion Science，常用缩写为 Prog. Energy Combust. Sci.）是爱思唯尔出版的综述双月刊，1975 年创刊，燃烧研究所（The Combustion Institute）的协作期刊。刊物只发综述，不收原始研究论文，所有稿件均由主编邀约，在能源与燃烧界的影响因子常年高居榜首。

Scope

In the journal's own terms it seeks reviews that assess complex multiphysics mechanisms in depth, and its coverage includes:按官方口径，刊物寻找对复杂多物理场机理作深入评估的综述，收文方向包括：

• Combustion fundamentals: combustion, flames, fuel science and technology, reacting flows and thermochemistry.燃烧基础： 燃烧、火焰、燃料科学与技术、反应流与热化学。
• Electrochemistry and thermal fluids: electrochemistry, thermal-fluid energy systems and advanced energy cycles.电化学与热流体： 电化学、热流体能源系统与先进能量循环。
• Electrification and new fuels: electrification of traditionally thermal processes, e-fuels and other sustainable energy routes.电气化与新燃料： 传统热驱动过程的电气化、电子燃料与其他可持续能源方案。
• Article specification: each volume carries a handful of commissioned reviews, usually under eighty pages and backed by analytical and quantitative argument.文章规格： 每卷收录数篇特邀综述，篇幅通常不超过 80 页，须以分析与定量论证作支撑。
• Perspectives: short invited perspectives now and then highlight recent successes, current developments and future needs in energy and combustion science.观点文章： 偶尔邀约短篇观点（Perspectives），突出能源与燃烧领域的新近成果、当下动向与未来需求。
• Explicitly excluded: work on electronics, electrical systems, materials science, medical applications, engineering structures, policy, geological science or market design.明确不发： 电子学、电气系统、材料科学、医学应用、工程结构、政策、地质学或市场设计方向的论文。

History

• Founding (1975): volume 1 appeared in 1975 with Norman Chigier of Carnegie Mellon University, a spray combustion scientist, as founding editor.创刊（1975年）： 刊物于 1975 年出版第 1 卷，创刊编辑为卡内基梅隆大学的（Norman Chigier），喷雾燃烧方向的学者。
• Publisher transition: Pergamon Press of London launched the journal, and it passed to Elsevier with the Pergamon holdings while keeping its review-only brief.出版方沿革： 创刊由英国的帕加蒙出版社（Pergamon Press）出版，其后随帕加蒙并入爱思唯尔，刊物的综述定位延续至今。
• Society ties: the journal is one of four titles affiliated to The Combustion Institute, which publishes Combustion and Flame and its Proceedings directly and affiliates four further journals including this one.学会关系： 刊物是燃烧研究所的四种关联期刊之一；该会直接出版《燃烧与火焰》与会刊两种刊物，另辖包括本刊在内的四种关联刊。
• Publishing rhythm: the journal appears bimonthly at six volumes a year, and 2025 ran from volume 106 to volume 111.出版节奏： 刊物为双月刊，每年 6 卷，2025 年已出至第 106 至 111 卷。
• Metric trend: the impact factor climbed from 25.2 in 2017 to 41.3 in 2025, when the journal held first quartile in the broad engineering and technology category and a top-journal flag.指标走势： 影响因子由 2017 年的 25.2 逐年升至 2025 年的 41.3，2025 年在期刊分区中列工程技术大类一区并入选顶级刊。

Editors

The publisher reports a median of 23 days from submission to first decision, 110 days to decision after review and 270 days to acceptance. No acceptance rate is given.出版方公布的用时为：投稿至首个决定中位 23 天，至审后决定中位 110 天，至接受中位 270 天；未公布录用比例。

• Co-editors-in-chief: Ahmed Ghoniem of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Graham Nathan of Adelaide University.共同主编： 艾哈迈德·戈尼姆（Ahmed Ghoniem），麻省理工学院；格雷厄姆·内森（Graham Nathan），阿德莱德大学。
• Invitation system: reviews are commissioned by the editors alone, and would-be authors download a proposal form, submit it through Editorial Manager, and write only once the proposal is accepted.邀约体制： 综述仅限主编邀约，有意者可下载提案表，经编辑经理（Editorial Manager）网站提交，通过后方受邀请撰写。
• Standard of the review: a review is not a literature survey or a tutorial but a technical assessment carrying the author's own judgement, and this has been the journal's position throughout.稿件标准： 综述不是文献普查或教程，而是有作者自己判断的技术评估，这是刊物的一贯立场。
• Division with sister titles: Combustion and Flame in the same Institute sequence carries original research, while this journal stays with in-depth assessment, and the two do not compete.与姊妹刊的分工： 同属燃烧研究所序列的《燃烧与火焰》登原始研究，本刊只作深度评述，两者互不竞争。