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Carbon Energy
ISSN 2637-9368 · Wiley · Australia
Carbon Energy: CAS Zone 1 · Materials Science (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 21.35; fully open access; APC about USD 3,200; median 91 days to acceptance (89 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 22% (journal website); 228 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Carbon Energy is published by Wiley and is in Zone 1 of Materials Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advancements in Battery Materials, Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies and Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, together about 38.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Carbon Energy is an international journal that addresses the growing scientific interests and needs in cutting-edge energy technology involving carbon utilization and carbon emission control. It serves as a high-quality platform for researchers working in a wide variety of scientific areas to communicate their findings and critical opinions as well as bring the communities of advanced material and energy together to contribute to this emerging field. Carbon Energy aims at publishing advanced energy technologies, such as energy storage, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis and thermocatalysis, etc. The scope is broad and falls within all forms of energy, spanning from the conventional electric and thermal energy to the type that catalyzes chemical and biological transformation. It also prompts new technologies leading to the control of carbon emission and green production of carbon materials. The journal recognizes the complexity of issues, and therefore particularly welcomes innovative interdisciplinary research with wide impact. Carbon Energy invites you to submit original research and review articles. All papers will be published online as soon as they are accepted and will be fully citable. In addition, there are no article publication charges for the first three publication years (2019-2021). Readership Materials scientists, chemists, physicists, environmental and analytical scientists, engineers from academia and industry as well as the policy makers. Indexing Information Academic OneFile (GALE Cengage) Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection (ProQuest) Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database (ProQuest) Biological Science Collection (ProQuest) Biological Science Database (ProQuest) CAS: Chemical Abstracts Service (ACS) Current Contents: Engineering, Computing & Technology (Clarivate Analytics) Current Contents: Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences (Clarivate Analytics) Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest) Environmental Science Database (ProQuest) INSPEC (IET) Natural Science Collection (ProQuest) OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy (GALE Cengage) Open Access Journal Index – OAJ (NSLC & CEPIEC) ProQuest Central (ProQuest) ProQuest Central Basic (Korea) (ProQuest) ProQuest Central Essentials (ProQuest) ProQuest Central Student (ProQuest) Publicly Available Content Database (ProQuest) Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics) SciTech Premium Collection (ProQuest)
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Multiple
Editor-in-chief Shun WangPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 43 in mainland China (about 53%); most named Mainland China 43, United States 7, Germany 5, Canada 5, Hong Kong, China 4 (81 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advancements in Battery MaterialsEngineering14.1%
- Advanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesEngineering12.9%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionEnergy11.4%
- Advanced battery technologies researchEngineering10.4%
- Supercapacitor Materials and FabricationMaterials Science7.2%
- Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesEnergy6.9%
- CO2 Reduction Techniques and CatalystsEnergy4.5%
- Fuel Cells and Related MaterialsEngineering3.4%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Materials Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Energy & Fuels | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Materials Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Physical | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Energy & Fuels | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Materials Science Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Physical | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Energy & Fuels | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
ESCIWeb of ScienceINSPECCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 21.35LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 21.4Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 21.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 32.7LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 32.7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 32.7Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 4.47LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 2.36LetPub ·
- h-index
- 104OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 597OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 17.77OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.2%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 179LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 180Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 810,576Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,117 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 197 | 197 | 360 |
| 2025 | 228 | 228 | 2,926 |
| 2024 | 227 | 227 | 8,302 |
| 2023 | 156 | 156 | 6,497 |
| 2022 | 141 | 141 | 10,376 |
| 2021 | 69 | 69 | 4,115 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
91 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 71 days – 133 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 73 days (89 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 176 days
- Sample
- 89 articles with submission and acceptance dates (428 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 4 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 22%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 22%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 3 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 101 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 82 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 4 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | USD 3,200 / GBP 2,450 / EUR 2,720 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | USD 3,200 / EUR 2,720 / GBP 2,450 | — | — | |
| LetPub | USD 3,000 / GBP 2,300 / EUR 2,550 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare10 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 260 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- AMA
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Required
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted4
- editorial(1) Research Article Description: The reports of original studies within the journal scope of Carbon Energy. Word Limit: No strict word limits, however, it is b…Length not stated
- research article(1) Research Article Description: The reports of original studies within the journal scope of Carbon Energy. Word Limit: No strict word limits, however, it is b…Length not stated
- review(1) Research Article Description: The reports of original studies within the journal scope of Carbon Energy. Word Limit: No strict word limits, however, it is b…Length not stated
- review article(1) Research Article Description: The reports of original studies within the journal scope of Carbon Energy. Word Limit: No strict word limits, however, it is b…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Peer review
- Authorship Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s authorship policy the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on eligibility for author listing.Table of ContentsA short text and graphic should be provided for the Table of Contents (ToC). The ToC text should describe the main results in 50 to 60 words. It should be written for a general audience and be written in the third person.The ToC fi…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Conflict of interest: all authors must disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Model summary
You will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. All the authors must declare financial/commercial conflicts of interest. If the authors have no conflicts of interest, this should be stated. See the section ‘Conflict of Interest’ in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on what to include in this section. Please ensure you…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Availability
Data citation: authors should review Wiley's Data Citation policy. Model summary
Carbon Energy encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors may provide a data availability statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published in their paper. Shared data should be cited. All accepted manuscripts may elect to publish a…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics 6. EDITORIAL POLICIES AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Editorial Peer-review Policy The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements. Wiley's policy on confident…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Editorial Peer-review Policy
Peer review policy: single-blind peer review; papers sent to review only if Editor-in-Chief determines they meet quality and relevance requirements. Model summary
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are single-blind peer reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Country or region
- Australia
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2637-9368
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 8, Issue 8 (August 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Carbon Energy
What CAS zone is Carbon Energy in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Carbon Energy is in Zone 1 of Materials Science, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Energy & Fuels / Materials Science, Multidisciplinary / Nanoscience & Nanotechnology; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Materials Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Carbon Energy?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 21.35; CiteScore 32.7, h-index 104.
How long does peer review take at Carbon Energy?
Based on the dates recorded on 89 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 91 days (interquartile range 71–133 days); authors report an average review time of about 4 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 22% (2025). Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of Carbon Energy?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 260 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: AMA; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Required; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Carbon Energy based?
Of the 81 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 43 (about 53%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (43), United States (7) and Germany (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Carbon Energy?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Carbon Energy is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists ESCI, Web of Science, INSPEC, CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Carbon Energy open access, and what is the APC?
Carbon Energy is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,200.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .