Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research Turns Five

Abstract

The first issue of the year marks a milestone for our journal: Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research turns five! Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research was launched in 2020, as the first dedicated open access journal featuring high-quality research on energy harvesting, conversion, storage, distribution, applications, ecology, climate change, water and environmental sciences, and the related societal impacts. The past five years have witnessed the journal's usage and citation increasing further to new record levels (2023 Impact Factor 6.2 in Journal Citation Reports, Clarivate Analytics, and 2023 CiteScore 8.2, Scopus). We would like to take this opportunity to thank our board members, authors, reviewers and readers for helping us as editors to make Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research achieving continued growth of submissions and the rising attention on the topics published in our journal. Table 1 lists the top ten articles with the most citations, with topics ranging from batteries and supercapacitors, electro-/photocatalysts, to hydrogen production and solar cells.

It's our honor to see the good recognition of the journal and the productive partnership with the societies. We are proud to announce our publishing partnership with the European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (EU PVSEC), together with our sister journals Solar RRL and Progress in Photovoltaics. Seven articles from EU PVSEC 2024 in topic 5 “PV in the Energy Transition”, have been published in Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, dealing with subjects like sustainability, scenarios for renewables, markets & economics, or societal and global challenges. On the occasion of the 5^th anniversary of Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, we have invited Prof. Yung-Jung Hsu (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University), Prof. Hisao Yoshida (Kyoto University), and Prof. Yongju Yun (Pohang University of Science and Technology) to guest-edit a special issue on “Catalysis towards sustainability”, which will showcase some of the latest development on electrocatalysis and photocatalysis for water splitting, biomass conversion and valorization, sustainable organic transformation, solar fuel generation and sustained environmental applications.

Wiley is excited to sign the Sustainable Development Goal Publishers Compact which further underlines our commitment to advancing sustainability. To advocate and inspire the action towards the UN's sustainable development goal 7-Affordable and Clean Energy, we are planning a cross-journal collection “Powering the Future: Advancements in Clean, Affordable and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development”, to present the latest research on clean energy technologies including batteries and supercapacitors, hydrogen production, biofuels and biorefineries, organic and inorganic photovoltaics and solar cells, sustainable materials for energy applications, and so on. More than 60 journals participate in this themed collection. Therefore, we would like to invite you to submit your paper to the journal that most closely aligns with your research topic for inclusion in this collection. Look forward to receiving your submissions!

Thank you for your continued support to Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research! Wishing you all the best in 2025!