STM publisher Elsevier and the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) have announced a renewal of their publishing agreement. Elsevier and ISES have been publishing partners since 2002. Under the agreement, Elsevier will continue to provide publishing services for the society's journal Solar Energy.
Solar Energy is published once a month and is the official journal of ISES, whose purpose is to promote excellence in scientific research in all aspects of solar energy research. The journal has a 2013 Impact Factor of 3.541 and ranks 19 of 82 journals in the Energy & Fuels category, according to the Journal Citations Reports® published by Thomson Reuters.
Under the leadership of Editor-in-Chief, Dr. D.Y. Goswami, the Editorial team is being expanded to include four Subject Editors who will cover the most prolific areas of the journal. Over the past 5 years, submissions to the journal have increased by 27 percent, and the number of articles published has more than doubled. Research in the solar energy and all renewable energy fields is driving force to achieving the 100 percent renewable energy transformation.
Elsevier and ISES has announced the appointments of the new subject editors. Dr. Jan Kleissl, Associate Professor at University of California at San Diego (UCSD), USA, and Associate Director of UCSD Center for Energy Research, will lead the Resources and Meteorology's subject; Dr. Ranga Pitchumani, Chief Scientist for the SunShot Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the George R. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech (USA), will be responsible for the Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and High Temperature Applications subject area; Dr. Yanjun Dai, Professor at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University of China, will lead Solar Heating & Cooling, Buildings and other applications; and Dr. Nicola Romeo, Professor at the University of Parma will lead the area of Photovoltaics.
