The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its new Gold OA journal Energy Advances focuses on energy science, and in particular the interdisciplinarity required for breakthroughs in the field.
Energy Advances welcomes research from any related discipline including materials science, engineering, technology, biosciences and chemistry. The aim is for it to embrace energy science research – particularly at the boundaries where disciplines cross, and where communities collaborate to inspire new thinking.
In recent years, research publishing output in the energy sector has grown almost twice as much as for “core” chemistry subjects, as global funding increases. For example, international government energy R&D spending in 2019 grew by 3% to $30 billion globally, around 80% of which was directed to low-carbon energy technologies.
Energy Advances underpins RSC energy science, complementing its family of dedicated energy journals – Energy & Environmental Science, Sustainable Energy and Fuels and Journal of Materials Chemistry A. It is designed to complement these by broadening the subject coverage while increasing author choice and improving accessibility to our journals.
As the Society’s latest gold open access journal, all article processing charges (APCs) are waived until mid-2024, to ensure as many people as possible have the opportunity to publish and read meaningful papers in this field.
Energy Advances is open for submissions in September 2021. Professor Volker Presser, Chair for Energy Materials at Saarland University in Germany, will serve as the journal’s Editor in Chief.
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