Journal profile · MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Energy & Environmental Materials
ISSN 2575-0356 · WILEY · PEOPLES R CHINA · Quarterly · Founded 2018
Energy & Environmental Materials: CAS Zone 1 · Materials Science (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 13.61; fully open access; APC about USD 3,000; median 64 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 30% (journal website); 243 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Energy & Environmental Materials 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 Advanced battery technologies research, together about 42.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Energy & Environmental Materials (EEM) is an international journal published by Zhengzhou University in collaboration with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. for the publication of high quality, agenda-setting research related to materials for energy harvesting, conversion, storage, and transport as well as cleaner environment. EEM publishes research work of significant general interest with high impact on society-relevant technological advances. The journal scope is intentionally broad and the journal recognizes the complexity of issues and challenges related to energy and environmental materials, and therefore, particularly welcomes experimental and theoretical work of interdisciplinary nature across basic science and engineering disciplines. The areas include but are not limited to materials and composites for: • Photovoltaics & photoelectrochemistry• Thermoelectricity, piezoelectricity, and triboelectricity• Batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors• Bioprocessing• Environmental remediation• Clean air• Carbon capture, storage, and utilization• Clean water, waste water treatment, and desalination• Devices with multifunctionality Readership Chemical, physical, biological, materials, and environmental scientists and engineers spanning a wide readership across academia, industry, and policy-making. Keywords materials science, energy materials, environmental materials, nanomaterials, nanocomposites, nanotechnology, biomaterials, two-dimensional materials, porous materials, dielectrics, metamaterials, self-assembly, hierarchical materials, heterostructures, MOFs, COFs, nanotubes, nanowires, nanoparticles, carbon materials, semiconductors, superconductors, ionic conductors, mixed conductors, electrodes, electrolytes, membranes, separators, surface and interface, in situ and in-operando characterization, electrochemistry, charge transfer, defects, metals and alloys, ceramics, organics, polymers, thin films, colloids, optics, sensors, light emitting materials, photovoltaics, solar cells, photonics, batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, thermoelectrics, air pollution control, carbon capture, gas storage, fuel production, CO2 utilization, sustainability, catalysts, clean water, waste water treatment, desalination, modeling, simulation, density functional theory, and molecular dynamics Editorial Forewords Energy and Environment represent two top-most challenges for the modern society. Thus, it is the obligation of humanity to develop sustainable and environmentally compat
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): MATERIALS SCIENCE, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Editor-in-chief Guosheng ShaoPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 183 in mainland China (about 69%); most named Mainland China 183, United States 20, United Kingdom 11, Australia 7, Germany 5 (264 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advancements in Battery MaterialsEngineering17.5%
- Advanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesEngineering16.4%
- Advanced battery technologies researchEngineering8.8%
- Supercapacitor Materials and FabricationMaterials Science7.7%
- Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionEnergy6%
- Advanced Battery Technologies ResearchEngineering5.3%
- Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesEnergy5%
- Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsEngineering4.4%
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 | Environmental Sciences | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | 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 | Environmental Sciences | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 1 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Materials Science Zone 2
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 2 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 2 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexWeb of ScienceINSPECCASCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: EBSCO, ProQuest, Astrophysics Data System
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
- 13.61LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 13.8Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 13.8Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 26.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 26.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 26.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 3.29LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.82LetPub ·
- h-index
- 97OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 827OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 8.65OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 1.4%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 91.09%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 219LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 221Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 909,742Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 1,442 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 316 | 311 | 576 |
| 2025 | 243 | 236 | 2,539 |
| 2024 | 172 | 166 | 3,205 |
| 2023 | 113 | 106 | 3,344 |
| 2022 | 242 | 205 | 10,779 |
| 2021 | 180 | 121 | 11,327 |
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
64 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 44 days – 91 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 38 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 111 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (574 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
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 30%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 30%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 4 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 59 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 36 daysPublisher website ·
- 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessLetPub
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,000 / EUR 2,550 / GBP 2,300 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | No APC | — | — |
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 prepare6 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 260 words
- Keywords
- ≥ 3
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 5,000 words
- Reference style
- Numbered, in order of citation
- Templates
- Word
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted2
- full paper(1) Research ArticleDescription: The reports of original studies within the journal scope of Energy & Environmental Materials. Both communication and full paper…Length not stated
- research article(1) Research ArticleDescription: The reports of original studies within the journal scope of Energy & Environmental Materials. Both communication and full paper…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 in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on author listing eligibility.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the ‘Conflict of Interest’ section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
The journal encourages authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
The journal is committed to high standards for professional conduct and ethical behavior in all published material. The Publication Ethics Guidelines detail the journal's position as a scientific publisher.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review and Acceptance
Energy & Environmental Materials is participating in a pilot of the NISO Working Group on Peer Review Terminology. Standardising the terminology across journals and publishers used to describe peer review practices helps make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent, and it will enable the community to better assess and compare peer review practices between different jour…
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
- PEOPLES R CHINA
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Founded
- 2018
- ISSN
- 2575-0356
- Society / sponsor
- Zhengzhou University
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 9, Issue 5 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Energy & Environmental Materials
What CAS zone is Energy & Environmental Materials in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Energy & Environmental Materials is in Zone 1 of Materials Science, and in Zone 1 of the minor category Environmental Sciences / Materials Science, Multidisciplinary; 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 Energy & Environmental Materials?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 13.61; CiteScore 26.6, h-index 97.
How long does peer review take at Energy & Environmental Materials?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 64 days (interquartile range 44–91 days); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 30% (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 Energy & Environmental Materials?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 260 words; Keywords: ≥ 3; Manuscript length: ≤ 5,000 words; Reference style: Numbered, in order of citation; Templates: Word; 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 Energy & Environmental Materials based?
Of the 264 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 183 (about 69%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are Mainland China (183), United States (20) and United Kingdom (11). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Energy & Environmental Materials?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Energy & Environmental Materials is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Web of Science, INSPEC, CAS and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Energy & Environmental Materials open access, and what is the APC?
Energy & Environmental Materials is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 3,000.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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: .