Energy & Environmental Science is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 publishing original (primary) research and review articles

Literature review

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, the journal publishes work of an interdisciplinary nature in the (bio)chemical and (bio)physical sciences and chemical engineering disciplines.

Energy & Environmental Science is published monthly by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry

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 (RSC), a not-for-profit

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 publisher.

Energy & Environmental Science is a leading journal: it has a 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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of 8.500, ranking it 8th among 140 journals in the category "Chemistry, Multidisciplinary", second among 71 journals in the category "Energy & Fuels", second among 128 journals in the category "Engineering, Chemical", and first among 181 scientific journals in the category "Environmental Sciences".

Article types

Energy & Environmental Science publishes the following types of articles: Research Papers (original scientific work); Review Articles, Perspectives and Minireviews (feature review-type articles of broad interest); Communications (original scientific work of an urgent nature), Opinions (personal, often speculative, viewpoints or hypotheses on a current topic) and Analysis Articles (in-depth examination of energy and environmental technologies, strategies, policies, and general conceptual frameworks of general interest).