Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105) has held Editorial Board meetings since 2024. The Editorial Board meeting on 6 March 2025 was hosted by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Karim Zaghib. Twelve Editorial Board Members plus three Section Editors-in-Chief were in attendance. We are grateful for the participants’ support, and we hope that more Editorial Board Members will be able to join in the future. We invite everyone to review the content of this meeting. 

The meeting began with a presentation on the journal’s 2024 performance. The following topics were discussed:

• The journal’s statistics;
• An analysis of authors’ demographics;
• Journal awards, marketing activities, and conferences Batteries collaborated with;
• The 10th anniversary of Batteries. 

To promote the development of the journal, the discussion turned to the following topics:

• Review-type papers;
• Maintaining a high-quality peer review process;
• Involving early-career scholars in journal activities;
• Hot topics in the field;
• Standardization of electrochemical related terminology. 

Attendee list (in no particular order):

• Prof. Dr. Karim Zaghib (Editor-in-Chief), Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Concordia University, Montréal, QC H3G 1M8, Canada;
• Dr. Huilin Pan, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China;
• Dr. Ottorino Veneri (Section Editor-in-Chief), Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility (STEMS), National Research Council of Italy (CNR), 80125 Naples, Italy;
• Dr. Teófilo Rojo, Inorganic Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Barrio Sarriena, Leioa, Spain;
• Dr. Steve Greenbaum, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY 10065, USA;
• Dr. Cristina Tealdi, Department of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry Division, University of Pavia and INSTM – UdR Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy;
• Prof. Dr. Odne S. Burheim, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Kolbjørn Hejes Vei 1B, No-7034 Trondheim, Norway;
• Prof. Dr. Marco Giorgetti (Section Editor-in-Chief), Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy;
• Prof. Dr. Diana Golodnitsky, School of Chemistry and Applied Materials Research Center, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel;
• Dr. Stefan Adams, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, Singapore;
• Prof. Dr. Bing Li, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China;
• Dr. Shengshui Zhang, Battery Science Branch, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 20783-1138, USA;
• Prof. Dr. Jim P. Zheng, Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA;
• Dr. Qing Wang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117574, Singapore;
• Prof. Dr. Pascal Venet (Section Editor-in-Chief), Department of the Ampère Laboratory, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, 69100 Villeurbanne, France;
• Prof. Dr. Catia Arbizzani, Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum-Università di Bologna, Via Selmi 2, 40126 Bologna, Italy.

The latest official CiteScore (2023 Scopus data) for Batteries is 4.0, ranking 35/60 (Q2) in the “Electrical and Electronic Engineering” category. The current Impact Factor of Batteries is 4.6 (2023), ranking 16/45 (Q2) in the “Electrochemistry” category. 

To access more journal statistics, please click here. 

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