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Sustainable Energy & Fuels is a Transformative Journal, and Plan S compliant
Impact factor: 5.0*
Time to first decision (all decisions): 9.0 days**
Time to first decision (peer reviewed only): 31.0 days***
Editor-in-Chief: Garry Rumbles
Open access publishing options available
CiteScore: 10.0****
Journal scope
Sustainable Energy & Fuels publishes high quality scientific research that will drive the development of sustainable energy technologies, with a particular emphasis on innovative concepts and approaches.
The journal is an essential resource for energy researchers and cuts across chemistry and its interfaces with materials science, physics and biology – covering evolving and emerging areas such as the following:
- Solar energy conversion including photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis
- Energy storage including batteries, flow batteries and supercapacitors
- Catalysis for energy technologies, including the sustainable synthesis of fuels and chemicals, and molecular/bioinspired catalysis
- Electrocatalysis, photocatalysis and thermal catalysis
- Fuel cells
- Hydrogen production, storage and distribution
- Carbon dioxide utilisation, including fuels and chemicals from carbon dioxide
- Biorefining and Biofuels
- Capacitive desalination and desalination batteries
- Other sustainable energy conversion technologies including thermochemical, piezoelectric and thermoelectric materials and devices
Energy science and technologies that avoid the use of critical raw elements or detrimental environmental effects during preparation, manufacture and end-of-life are particularly encouraged.
Why publish in Sustainable Energy & Fuels?
Sustainable Energy & Fuels publishes high quality articles in energy research.
Sustainable Energy & Fuels authors will benefit from the following:
- Rapid publication times
- Simple and user-friendly online submission process
- Free use of colour
- No page charges
- No page limits
- Open access publishing options
- Free electronic reprints (PDF) of own paper
Meet the team
Find out who is on the editorial and advisory boards for the Sustainable Energy & Fuels journal.
Editor-in-chief
Garry Rumbles, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Associate editors
Ryu Abe, Kyoto University, Japan
Francesca Brunetti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
David Mitlin, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Marta Sevilla, Instituto Nacional del Carbón - CSIC, Spain
Carsten Streb, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Xinchen Wang, Fuzhou University, China
Karen Wilson, Griffith University, Australia
Fuxiang Zhang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Editorial board members
Wooyul Kim, Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH), Korea
Carol S K Lin, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Tharamani C. Nagaiah, Indian Institute Of Technology Ropar, India
Jessica Allen, University of Newcastle, Australia
Vincent Artero, Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, CEA, France
Chunmei Ban, University of Colorado, USA
Christoph Brabec, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Cyrille Costentin, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Seth Darling, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Benjamin Dietzek, Jena Institute of Photonics, Germany
Gordana Dukovic, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
James Durrant, Imperial College London and Swansea University, UK
Heinz Frei, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Elizabeth Gibson, University of Newcastle, UK
Susan Habas, NREL, USA
Anders Hagfeldt, Uppsala University, Sweden
Justin Hodgkiss, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Libai Huang, Purdue University, USA
Osamu Ishitani, Hiroshima University, Japan
Anne Jones, Arizona State University, USA
Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University, Korea
Lieve Laurens, NREL, USA
Frédéric Laquai, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Xianfeng Li, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Doug MacFarlane, Monash University, Australia
Chris McNeill, Monash University, Australia
Shirley Meng, University of Chicago, USA
Johannes Messinger, Uppsala University, Sweden
Robert Mokaya, University of Nottingham, UK
Annamma Odaneth, Institute of Chemical Technology, India
Satishchandra Ogale, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune
Jude Onwudili, Aston University, UK
Martin Oschatz, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
Emilio Palomares, Catalan Institute of Chemical Research, Spain
Xiulian Pan, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Alissa Park, University of California Los Angeles, USA
Nam-Gyu Park, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Volker Presser, Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Germany
Amy Prieto, Colorado State University, USA
Liangti Qu, Tsinghua University, China
Erin Ratcliff, University of Arizona, USA
Srinivasan Sampath, Indian Institute of Science, India
Uwe Schroder, TU-Braunschweig, Germany
Kimberley See, California Institute of Technology, USA
Wendy Shaw, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Adalgisa Sinicropi, University of Siena, Italy
Junwang Tang, University College London, UK
Roel van de Krol, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Germany
Koen Vandewal, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Aron Walsh, Imperial College London, UK
Aiqin Wang, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China
Xiaonan Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Michael Wasielewski, Northwestern University, USA
Yan Yao, University of Houston, USA
Wenming Yang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Emma Eley, Executive Editor ORCID 0000-0002-6379-8502
Celeste Brady, Deputy Editor ORCID 0000-0002-5988-1311
Sophie Orchard, Deputy Editor ORCID 0009-0009-7834-1511
Nour Tanbouza, Development Editor ORCID 0000-0002-9729-0918
Callum Woof, Development Editor ORCID 0000-0003-0601-3438
Claire Darby, Editorial Manager ORCID 0000-0003-3059-6020
Robin Brabham, Publishing Editor ORCID 0000-0002-8055-4016
Emma Carlisle, Publishing Editor
Hannah Hamilton, Publishing Editor
Ephraim Otumudia, Publishing Editor ORCID 0000-0002-9551-3591
Rebecca Milne, Publishng Editor
Irene Molina Santos, Publishing Editor ORCID 0000-0002-4766-9436
Michael Spencelayh, Publishing Editor
Kate Bandoo, Editorial Assistant
Linda Warncke, Publishing Assistant
Sam Keltie, Publisher, Journals, ORCID 0000-0002-9369-8414
Open access publishing options
Sustainable Energy & Fuels is a hybrid (transformative) journal and gives authors the choice of publishing their research either via the traditional subscription-based model or instead by choosing our gold open access option. Find out more about our Transformative Journals. which are Plan S compliant.
Gold open access
For authors who want to publish their article gold open access, Sustainable Energy & Fuels charges an article processing charge (APC) of £2,750 (+ any applicable tax). Our APC is all-inclusive and makes your article freely available online immediately, permanently, and includes your choice of Creative Commons licence (CC BY or CC BY-NC) at no extra cost. It is not a submission charge, so you only pay if your article is accepted for publication.
Learn more about publishing open access.
Read & Publish
If your institution has a Read & Publish agreement in place with the Royal Society of Chemistry, APCs for gold open access publishing in Sustainable Energy & Fuels may already be covered.
Use our journal finder to check if your institution has an open access agreement with us.
Please use your official institutional email address to submit your manuscript and check you are assigned as the corresponding author; this helps us to identify if you are eligible for Read & Publish or other APC discounts.
Traditional subscription model
Authors can also publish in Sustainable Energy & Fuels via the traditional subscription model without needing to pay an APC. Articles published via this route are available to institutions and individuals who subscribe to the journal. Our standard licence allows you to make the accepted manuscript of your article freely available after a 12-month embargo period. This is known as the green route to open access.
Readership information
The journal appeals to a broad international readership spanning many communities, including all academic and industrial scientists interested in the development of alternative sustainable energy technologies.
Subscription information
Online only 2025: ISSN 2398-4902, £3,527 / $5,971
*2023 Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)
**The median time from submission to first decision including manuscripts rejected without peer review from the previous calendar year
***The median time from submission to first decision for peer-reviewed manuscripts from the previous calendar year
****CiteScore™ 2023 available at www.scopus.com/sources
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