A Letter from the Editor-in-Chief to Our Readers

I would like to take the occasion of writing this newsletter to draw a sort of summary of our publishing activities at Energies and of the results and perspectives.

In the last six months, we have published 2373 papers, ranging from improvements to production processes, to new devices and components, to new configurations of advanced energy systems, to techno-economic essays. As usual, the published papers have undergone a professional (some authors would say “particular” as well!) review process, and our rejection rate (61.3% of the received manuscripts) confirms our purpose to maintain the highest possible publication standards.

“Energy saving” is of course a misnomer, because energy is in fact conserved: What readers of Energies find in our issues is a mixture of very well formulated ways to reduce primary energy use while maintaining the same (material or immaterial) product standards. This can be accomplished in many ways—through more careful design, innovative solutions, novel configurations, or advanced physical models. I am very pleased to underscore that our authors display a high degree of creativity, tempered with a solid engineering background. As a result, not only the scientific and academic communities may benefit from a systematic reading of Energies, but industrial research and production bodies may also find herein a plethora of ideas, implementations, pilot plant schemes, experimental results, and theoretical suggestions. This is really our goal: To imagine, synthetize, calculate, and present novel ideas in the field.

The continuous increase of our impact factor (2.707 at present) encourages us to proceed on this path, and to make every effort to offer our readers the best available intellectual products and our authors a fast, strict, unbiased, and discriminative scientifically rigorous tool to publish their efforts.

The technological field of Energy Systems is constantly on the move, and, thus, we have added some sections to our journal, the most interesting being the ”Economic” one, aimed at presenting the “market size” of a technology, a fundamental discriminator in real-world engineering.

With your help, all of us at Energies, from our publisher to the editorial office, to our assistant editors, to the members of our editorial board—including myself—and, most of all, the anonymous (to you authors!) reviewers who invest a substantial part of their time to provide for free this invaluable service to the community, will proceed in this direction to further improve the quality, the diffusion, and the reach of our journal.

A good continuation of 2019 to all of us!