Journal profile · Energy-Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Sustainable Energy & Fuels
ISSN 2398-4902 · Royal Society of Chemistry · United States
Sustainable Energy & Fuels: CAS Zone 4 · Materials Science (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 4.59; hybrid open access; 541 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Sustainable Energy & Fuels is published by Royal Society of Chemistry and is in Zone 4 of Materials Science in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion, Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques and Advanced battery technologies research, together about 28.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Electrical and Electronic Engineering. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Sustainable Energy & Fuels will publish research that contributes to the development of sustainable energy technologies with a particular emphasis on new and next-generation technologies.
Source: LetPub
Research area (LetPub): Energy-Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionEnergy11.6%
- Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesEnergy8.5%
- Advanced battery technologies researchEngineering8.1%
- Advancements in Battery MaterialsEngineering7.5%
- Supercapacitor Materials and FabricationMaterials Science6.5%
- Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsEngineering5.4%
- Advanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesEngineering5.1%
- Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceMaterials Science3.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Materials Science Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Energy & Fuels | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Materials Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Physical | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Energy & Fuels | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Materials Science Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Materials Science | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Chemistry, Physical | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Energy & Fuels | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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
- 4.59LetPub ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 8LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.83LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 0.69LetPub ·
- h-index
- 111OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,418OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.52OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 25.08%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 447LetPub ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 4,767 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 342 | 127 | 310 |
| 2025 | 541 | 227 | 2,743 |
| 2024 | 554 | 232 | 4,873 |
| 2023 | 508 | 197 | 6,031 |
| 2022 | 540 | 99 | 8,163 |
| 2021 | 594 | 108 | 13,713 |
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 PubMed · to
Too few articlesOnly 9 articles from the last 24 months carry both submission and acceptance dates, too few for a median
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".
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Country or region
- United States
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2398-4902
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Sustainable Energy & Fuels
What CAS zone is Sustainable Energy & Fuels in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Sustainable Energy & Fuels is in Zone 4 of Materials Science, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Energy & Fuels / Materials Science, Multidisciplinary. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Materials Science. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of Sustainable Energy & Fuels?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.59; CiteScore 8, h-index 111.
Which databases index Sustainable Energy & Fuels?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Sustainable Energy & Fuels is indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Is Sustainable Energy & Fuels open access, and what is the APC?
Sustainable Energy & Fuels is a hybrid journal. Fee information is not available yet; check the journal's website.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, 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: .