Renewable Energy Focus

Renewable Energy Focus is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier, launched in 2000 as the business-to-business magazine Refocus and converted into a research journal in 2017, and it covers renewable energy systems integration with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 10.8 and a CiteScore of 16.9（Renewable Energy Focus）是由（Elsevier）出版的同行评审学术期刊，2000 年以商业杂志（Refocus）创刊并于 2017 年转型为研究型期刊，聚焦可再生能源系统集成，2025 年影响因子为 10.8，（CiteScore）为 16.9。

Scope

• The journal aims to be a focal point for exploring where decarbonization, decentralization and digitization intersect with the scale-up of renewable energy integrated systems该刊的定位是成为脱碳、去中心化与数字化三者同可再生能源集成系统规模化扩张相交汇议题的聚焦平台。
• It covers integrated energy solutions across electricity, heat, water and Power to X该刊涵盖横跨电力、热能、水与（Power to X）的集成能源解决方案。
• Papers that combine renewable sources with non-renewable sources remain acceptable when they serve decarbonization or regional energy transition goals只要服务于脱碳或区域与国家层面的能源转型目标，把可再生能源与非可再生能源结合的论文亦可被接受。
• It seeks cutting-edge insights across technology, policy, finance, society and market development, serving academics, engineers, economists, non-governmental organizations and governments该刊在技术、政策、金融、社会与市场发展诸维度征寻前沿见解，服务对象包括学者、工程师、经济学家、非政府组织与政府。
• It publishes original research papers and review papers, and every submission undergoes full peer review该刊发表原创研究论文与综述论文，所有来稿均经过完整的同行评审。
• Authors are encouraged to share their data through supplementary material, the Mendeley platform, or a linked data article published in Data in Brief该刊鼓励作者通过补充材料、（Mendeley）平台或在（Data in Brief）上另行发表数据论文来共享数据。
• Its Scopus subject area is renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and its open access article publishing charge is USD 2,240其在（Scopus）中的学科领域为可再生能源、可持续性与环境，开放获取的文章处理费（APC）为 2240 美元。

History

• It was launched in 2000 as the business-to-business magazine Refocus and began publishing full peer-reviewed research papers in 2017该刊于 2000 年以商业杂志（Refocus）创刊，并于 2017 年开始刊载完整的同行评审研究论文。
• Douglas J. Arent of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory was appointed as its first editor-in-chief at the time of the relaunch改版之际，美国国家可再生能源实验室的（Douglas J. Arent）被任命为首任主编。
• Its Journal Impact Factor was 5.9 in 2024 and 10.8 in 2025其影响因子 2024 年为 5.9，2025 年为 10.8。
• In the Emerging Sources Citation Index it ranks in the first quartile of the energy and fuels category, placing twenty-eighth among one hundred and ninety-one journals该刊在（ESCI）的能源与燃料类别中居 Q1 区，位列 28/191。
• It is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, the Emerging Sources Citation Index, SCImago Journal Rank and SNIP该刊被（Scopus）、（ESCI）、（SCImago Journal Rank）与（SNIP）收录。
• It issues four volumes a year and reached its fifty-ninth volume in 2026, and it reports five days from submission to first decision and one hundred and thirty-two days from submission to acceptance该刊每年出版 4 卷，2026 年已出版至第 59 卷；官方公布的投稿至首次决定时间为 5 天，投稿至接收为 132 天。

Editors

• Its editor-in-chief is Leyla Ozgener of Manisa Celal Bayar University in Turkiye该刊主编为土耳其马尼萨杰拉尔巴亚尔大学的（Leyla Ozgener）。
• Joseph E. Duggan of the University of Dayton and Gaetano Zizzo of the University of Palermo serve as associate editors代顿大学的（Joseph E. Duggan）与巴勒莫大学的（Gaetano Zizzo）任副主编。
• Douglas J. Arent of the National Laboratory of the Rockies serves on the editorial advisory board（National Laboratory of the Rockies）的（Douglas J. Arent）任编辑咨询委员会成员。
• The advisory board also includes Guoqian Chen of Peking University, Sarah Kurtz of the University of California Merced and Mark O'Malley of Imperial College London咨询委员会还包括北京大学的（Guoqian Chen）、加州大学默塞德分校的（Sarah Kurtz）与伦敦帝国理工学院的（Mark O'Malley）。
• Tomonobu Senjyu of the University of the Ryukyus, Saidur Rahman of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and Xiaolei Zhang of the University of Strathclyde are members as well琉球大学的（Tomonobu Senjyu）、法赫德国王石油与矿产大学的（Saidur Rahman）与思克莱德大学的（Xiaolei Zhang）亦为成员。
• The board comprises twenty-three editors and editorial board members based in eleven countries and regions, with ten in the United States, three in the United Kingdom and two in the Netherlands编委会由分布于 11 个国家和地区的 23 位编辑与编委组成，其中美国 10 位、英国 3 位、荷兰 2 位。