Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments is a multidisciplinary energy journal published by Elsevier since 2013, covering technologies for generating and using energy with lower impact, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 7.4 with a rank of 56th among 191 journals in energy and fuels《可持续能源技术和评估》（Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments）是（Elsevier）自 2013 年起出版的跨学科能源期刊，覆盖可降低能源生产与使用影响的技术，2025 年影响因子 7.4，在 191 种能源与燃料期刊中列第 56 位。

Scope

• The journal encourages papers on any aspect and scale of technologies for energy generation or utilisation that decrease the impact of that production and use, from the laboratory to commercial application该刊征集关于降低能源生产与使用影响的各类技术与各种规模的研究，从实验室研究到商业应用。
• The main fields of focus are generation, storage and conversion, energy efficiency and distribution, and policy and economics主要关注领域为发电、储能与能量转换，能效与输配，以及政策与经济学。
• Technology assessments estimating metrics such as scale of application, size and weight per unit of energy output, economics, efficiency and state of technology development are particularly welcomed, whether for individual or comparative systems特别欢迎技术评估类研究，估测应用规模、单位能量产出的体积与重量、经济性、效率与技术成熟度等指标，适用于单一系统或系统比较。
• Energy fields include carbon capture and storage, wind, bioenergy, solar and photovoltaics, hydro, geothermal and conventional fuels能源门类包括碳捕集与封存、风能、生物能、太阳能与光伏、水能、地热能以及常规燃料。
• System analysis, environmental issues, energy harvesting and building design are also inside the remit系统分析、环境问题、能量收集与建筑设计同样在收稿范围之内。
• Technology development and improvement, integration, regulation, standards and policy, and case studies all fall within scope, and papers combining several topics in a unified system or comparison are encouraged技术研发与改进、集成、法规、标准与政策以及案例研究均属范围，并鼓励把若干主题整合为统一系统或加以比较的论文。
• Manuscript types include full-length research articles, review articles, case studies and perspectives, and the journal welcomes work supporting United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 7 on affordable and clean energy and Goal 13 on climate action稿件类型包括完整研究论文、综述、案例研究与观点文章，该刊并欢迎支撑联合国可持续发展目标第 7 项（可负担的清洁能源）与第 13 项（气候行动）的研究。

History

• The journal opened with volume 1, issue 1 in March 2013, an issue that carried work such as a study of the dynamic characteristics of an automotive fuel cell system该刊于 2013 年 3 月以第 1 卷第 1 期创刊，该期刊载了例如车用燃料电池系统动态特性研究等工作。^[1]
• An earlier editor-in-chief recorded by Elsevier was Ioannis Ieropoulos, and the current editor-in-chief is Meng Ni of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University（Elsevier）记录的早期主编为（Ioannis Ieropoulos），现任主编为（The Hong Kong Polytechnic University）的（Meng Ni）。
• The journal is published by Elsevier Ltd with both the print ISSN 2213-1388 and the online ISSN 2213-1396, and it issues roughly eleven volumes a year, with volume 95 in progress in November 2026该刊由（Elsevier Ltd）出版，同时具有纸本 ISSN 2213-1388 与在线 ISSN 2213-1396，每年出版约 11 卷，2026 年 11 月在编第 95 卷。
• It is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, where it sits in Q2 in both energy and fuels and green and sustainable science and technology, and in Scopus该刊被（Science Citation Index Expanded）收录，在能源与燃料、绿色与可持续科学与技术两个类别均处 Q2，并被（Scopus）收录。
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 5.353 in 2021 and 7.632 in 2022 to 7.0 in 2024 and 7.4 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 5.353 与 2022 年的 7.632，变为 2024 年的 7.0 与 2025 年的 7.4。
• As a hybrid journal it combines the subscription route with a gold open access option, and Elsevier metrics for 2025 put the median time to first decision at about 4 days and to acceptance at about 124 days作为混合期刊，它把订阅通道与金色开放获取选项结合，按（Elsevier）2025 年指标，首次决定的中位时间约为 4 天，到录用约为 124 天。

Editors

• The editor-in-chief is Meng Ni of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, whose research field is energy conversion and storage engineering现任主编为（The Hong Kong Polytechnic University）的（Meng Ni），其研究领域为能量转换与储存工程。
• Associate editors include Evangelos Bellos of the University of West Attica in Greece, Benjamin Erable of the University of Toulouse and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and Makarand Ghangrekar of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur副编辑包括（Evangelos Bellos）（University of West Attica）、（Benjamin Erable）（University of Toulouse / CNRS）与（Makarand Ghangrekar）（Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur）。
• Further associate editors are Peng Li and Hao Yu of Tianjin University, Konstantina Velkushanova of IHE Delft, Ioannis Vyrides of the Cyprus University of Technology, Liping Wang of Binghamton University and Angelo Zarrella of the University of Padova其他副编辑为（Peng Li）与（Hao Yu）（Tianjin University）、（Konstantina Velkushanova）（IHE Delft）、（Ioannis Vyrides）（Cyprus University of Technology）、（Liping Wang）（Binghamton University）与（Angelo Zarrella）（University of Padova）。
• An ethics editor, Meng Yuan of Aalborg University in Denmark, and two assistant editors, Aradhana Singh of the University of Southampton and Li Mengying of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, support the editorial office伦理编辑为（丹麦）（Aalborg University）的（Meng Yuan），另有两位助理编辑（Aradhana Singh）（University of Southampton）与（Li Mengying）（The Hong Kong Polytechnic University）协助编辑部。
• The board has 43 editors and editorial board members from 19 countries, led by China with 6, the United States with 5 and Italy with 4编委会由来自 19 个国家的 43 位编辑与编委组成，其中中国 6 位、美国 5 位、意大利 4 位。
• Board members span energy engineering, architecture, chemical and environmental engineering, including Jie Ji of the University of Science and Technology of China, Zhenjun Ma of the University of Wollongong, Joshua Pearce of Western University, Christian Sattler of the German Aerospace Center and Yixiang Shi of Tsinghua University编委横跨能源工程、建筑、化工与环境工程等领域，包括（Jie Ji）（University of Science and Technology of China）、（Zhenjun Ma）（University of Wollongong）、（Joshua Pearce）（Western University）、（Christian Sattler）（German Aerospace Center）与（Yixiang Shi）（Tsinghua University）。