Energy Economics

Energy Economics is published by Elsevier and is in Zone 1 of Economics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Energy, Environment, Economic Growth, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies and Market Dynamics and Volatility, together about 42.2% of its articles. Its main subfields are Economics and Econometrics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Energy Economics is the premier field journal for energy economics and energy finance. Themes include, but are not limited to, the exploitation, conversion and use of energy, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, regulation and taxation, forecasting, environment and climate, international trade, development, and monetary policy. Contributions to the journal can use a range of methods, if appropriately and rigorously applied, including but not limited to experiments, surveys, econometrics, decomposition, simulation models, equilibrium models, optimization models, and analytical models.Submitted papers must be replicable. Submitted papers are typically pre-reviewed by the editor-in-chief and the handling editor. Papers generally need two or more positive review reports to be invited for a revise-and-resubmit.Replication policy Energy Economics publishes an eclectic mix of papers using a wide variety of methods to shed light on a range of topics. Our replication policy reflects this, and is applied in spirit rather than to the letter. We encourage the submission of replication studies. Replication studies should reproduce the key results of the original study, replicate them and extend them in a substantive way, while explaining the differences.For econometric papers, authors should provide program(s) and data set(s), plus a readme file on how to replicate each table, graph and other result. Ideally, there will be one command to reproduce the entire paper. Use of interactive software is discouraged. The readme file should identify the software and toolboxes used. If data are proprietary, the readme file should make clear how data can be obtained. For experimental and survey-based papers, authors should provide the original instructions (plus an English translation if applicable), information about subject eligibility and selection, the raw data, and any program used to analyze the data. For analytic papers, authors should provide data and programs used for the simulations (if any). Detailed derivations and proofs should be placed in an appendix. For papers using simulation, equilibrium or optimization models, authors should provide data and programs. If data or programs are proprietary, unambiguous information on the version should be provided, plus information on how data or programs can be obtained. Small models developed in-house should be provided. For large models developed in-house, a standard version should be provided together with a detailed description of the changes made for the version used in the paper at hand. Data and programs can be provided either as an appendix to the paper or as a stable link to a website. Data files should be in machine-readable format.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): ECONOMICS

Editor-in-chief Boqiang LinPublisher website

Editorial board by country: 17 in mainland China (about 23%); most named United States 22, Mainland China 17, Australia 8, France 4, United Kingdom 3 (74 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

13.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

13.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

21.8LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

21.8Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

3.45LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.68LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

297OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

6,285OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

13.36OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

9.6%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

28.06%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

785LetPub · 2026-09-13

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.

Figures by source

Submission to first decision

9 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

First decision after review

74 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Submission to acceptance

241 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Acceptance to publication

6 daysPublisher website · 2026-10-01

Peer review

Single anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)

Page charges

No page charges

Submission fee

USD 100

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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.

Publisher

Elsevier

ISSN

0140-9883

Electronic ISSN

1873-6181

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website