Journal rankings · indicator year 2025
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Field ranking · 2025
Energy journal rankings 2025
58 ranked journals · Field in Physical Sciences
Energy has 58 ranked journals in 2025. The median journal has an OJR of 0.90, below the world average of 1.00, up 0.03 on 2024; Q1 starts at OJR 1.40. The two highest-scoring journals with stable ranks are Nature Catalysis and Applied Catalysis B: Environmental: each is likely ranked within the top 3.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2025. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields in Energy (5)
Up to Physical Sciences58 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. The small range under it is the likely rank range: in 95% of 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers, it ranked inside that range. Journals whose ranges overlap are not clearly different. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2024. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2022–2024, the window the 2025 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2022–2024 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2016 to 2025. A label compares the 2022→2025 change with the median change of the journal’s field or domain. Rising needs a relative change of +10% or more that is at least 2 standard errors above zero; Falling needs -9.1% or less (rounded), at least 2 standard errors below zero. Sorting uses that relative change. | Compare |
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Rank 1; likely between #1 and #1 of 58Nature CatalysisNature Portfolio · United Kingdom | 6.15Q1 | 30.79 0.18 up from 2024 | 519 | 24% | $12,690 | ||
Rank 2; likely between #2 and #3 of 58Applied Catalysis B: EnvironmentalElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.87Q1 | 19.17 2.18 down from 2024 | 3,406 | 15% | $5,950 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 3; likely between #2 and #5 of 58EcoEnergyOAWiley | 2.80Q1 | 17.49 15.36 down from 2024 | 79 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 4; likely between #3 and #6 of 58Green Energy & EnvironmentOAKeAi · China | 2.43Q1 | 12.01 2.18 down from 2024 | 320 | 100% | $0 listed | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 5; likely between #3 and #6 of 58CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)Elsevier BV · China | 2.29Q1 | 17.19 0.38 down from 2024 | 703 | 9% | $3,000 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 6; likely between #6 and #8 of 58Renewable EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 2.03Q1 | 9.68 0.55 down from 2024 | 5,587 | 21% | $4,460 | ||
Rank 7; likely between #4 and #9 of 58Green CarbonOAElsevier BV | 2.00Q1 | 11.22 4.70 down from 2024 | 88 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 8; likely between #7 and #15 of 58Acta Physico-Chimica SinicaPeking University Press · China | 1.63Q1 | 11.84 4.77 up from 2024 | 284 | 14% | $4,500 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 9; likely between #8 and #12 of 58Journal of Colloid and Interface ScienceElsevier BV · United States | 1.57Q1 | 9.73 0.06 down from 2024 | 7,319 | 14% | $4,470 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 10; likely between #4 and #28 of 58Advanced Sensor and Energy MaterialsOAElsevier BV · China | 1.54Q1 | 11.19 2.02 up from 2024 | 73 | 100% | $1,600 | ||
Rank 10; likely between #6 and #19 of 58Global ChallengesOAWiley · Germany | 1.54Q1 | 7.05 0.90 up from 2024 | 249 | 100% | $3,810 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 12; likely between #8 and #18 of 58Materials Reports EnergyOAElsevier BV · China | 1.52Q1 | 8.76 0.80 down from 2024 | 105 | 100% | $0 listed | ||
Rank 13; likely between #11 and #16 of 58International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.42Q1 | 9.75 0.48 up from 2024 | 13,028 | 22% | $3,730 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 14; likely between #11 and #17 of 58Solar EnergyElsevier BV · United States | 1.42Q1 | 8.62 0.98 up from 2024 | 2,280 | 25% | $3,900 | ||
Rank 15; likely between #9 and #19 of 58EES CatalysisOARoyal Society of Chemistry | 1.40Q1 | 9.91 2.32 up from 2024 | 177 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 16; likely between #11 and #18 of 58Materials Today SustainabilityOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.39Q2 | 8.04 0.09 up from 2024 | 960 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
Rank 17; likely between #9 and #24 of 58Materials Today CatalysisOAElsevier BV | 1.32Q2 | 7.24 3.06 down from 2024 | 74 | 100% | $3,080 | ||
Rank 18; likely between #14 and #24 of 58Transactions of Tianjin UniversitySpringer Science+Business Media · China | 1.18Q2 | 7.87 0.71 down from 2024 | 112 | 68% | $3,190 | ||
Rank 19; likely between #14 and #30 of 58Solar CompassOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 1.13Q2 | 7.12 0.32 up from 2024 | 85 | 100% | $500 | ||
Rank 20; likely between #14 and #30 of 58Environmental Functional MaterialsOAElsevier BV | 1.13Q2 | 6.44 0.31 up from 2024 | 65 | 100% | $1,000 | ||
Rank 21; likely between #18 and #25 of 58Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical EngineersElsevier BV · Taiwan | 1.08Q2 | 7.43 0.70 up from 2024 | 1,334 | 8% | $2,650 | ||
Rank 22; likely between #16 and #33 of 58Geothermal EnergyOASpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.06Q2 | 5.03 1.61 up from 2024 | 114 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
Rank 23; likely between #18 and #27 of 58Chem CatalysisElsevier BV · United States | 1.06Q2 | 4.83 1.82 down from 2024 | 866 | 27% | $9,170 | ||
Rank 24; likely between #14 and #39 of 58PhycologyOASwitzerland | 1.02Q2 | 4.12 0.40 up from 2024 | 89 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 25; likely between #22 and #29 of 58ChemSusChemWiley · Germany | 0.98Q2 | 5.51 0.34 down from 2024 | 2,106 | 58% | $4,550 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 26; likely between #22 and #30 of 58Algal ResearchElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.98Q2 | 5.55 0.23 up from 2024 | 1,268 | 31% | $4,190 | ||
Rank 27; likely between #22 and #30 of 58GeothermicsElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.98Q2 | 4.84 0.36 up from 2024 | 663 | 36% | $3,220 | ||
Rank 28; likely between #22 and #32 of 58Advanced Sustainable SystemsWiley · Germany | 0.94Q2 | 4.97 0.32 down from 2024 | 777 | 42% | $4,430 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 29; likely between #18 and #39 of 58Energy EfficiencySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.92Q2 | 3.79 1.10 down from 2024 | 273 | 46% | $2,390 | ||
Rank 30; likely between #19 and #43 of 58Solar Energy AdvancesOAElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 0.87Q3 | 4.43 0.48 down from 2024 | 72 | 100% | $2,750 | ||
Rank 31; likely between #29 and #35 of 58Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A ChemistryElsevier BV · Switzerland | 0.85Q3 | 4.66 0.42 down from 2024 | 2,130 | 13% | $3,470 | ||
Rank 32; likely between #27 and #38 of 58Catalysis CommunicationsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 0.84Q3 | 5.58 0.77 up from 2024 | 506 | — | $2,000 | ||
Rank 33; likely between #28 and #37 of 58Journal of Applied PhycologySpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 0.84Q3 | 3.92 0.47 up from 2024 | 733 | 32% | $3,890 | ||
Rank 34; likely between #32 and #38 of 58CatalystsOAMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute · Switzerland | 0.79Q3 | 4.70 0.33 up from 2024 | 4,101 | 100% | $2,654 | ||
Rank 35; likely between #29 and #41 of 58Chinese Journal of Structural ChemistryElsevier BV · China | 0.79Q3 | 5.13 3.20 down from 2024 | 298 | 2% | $2,500 | ||
Rank 36; likely between #31 and #39 of 58Sustainable Energy & FuelsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 4.79 0.49 up from 2024 | 1,337 | 42% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 37; likely between #29 and #41 of 58Frontiers of Chemical Science and EngineeringHigher Education Press · China | 0.77Q3 | 4.47 0.06 up from 2024 | 391 | 15% | $2,490 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 38; likely between #26 and #44 of 58SolarPACES Conference ProceedingsOAPublisher not listed | 0.75Q3 | 0.44 0.04 down from 2024 | 244 | 100% | — | ||
Rank 39; likely between #32 and #44 of 58International Journal of PhotoenergyOAHindawi Publishing Corporation · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 5.18 0.66 up from 2024 | 198 | 100% | $2,160 | ||
Rank 40; likely between #24 and #48 of 58Applied PhycologyOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.71Q3 | 2.48 0.99 down from 2024 | 50 | 100% | $564 | ||
Rank 41; likely between #38 and #43 of 58Catalysis Science & TechnologyRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 0.69Q3 | 4.00 0.21 down from 2024 | 1,918 | 40% | — | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 42; likely between #38 and #44 of 58ChemCatChemWiley · Germany | 0.68Q3 | 3.86 0.26 up from 2024 | 2,198 | 56% | $4,500 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 43; likely between #31 and #47 of 58Electrochemical Science AdvancesOAWiley · Germany | 0.64Q3 | 1.94 1.52 down from 2024 | 130 | 100% | $2,420 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 44; likely between #35 and #49 of 58The Journal of World Energy Law & BusinessOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 1.77 0.72 up from 2024 | 106 | 47% | $4,533 | Rising vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 45; likely between #40 and #50 of 58PhotochemOASwitzerland | 0.54Q4 | 3.03 0.22 up from 2024 | 121 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 46; likely between #43 and #48 of 58ElectrocatalysisSpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 0.52Q4 | 3.31 0.22 up from 2024 | 218 | 17% | $4,090 | ||
Rank 47; likely between #43 and #50 of 58International journal of energy and environmental engineeringSpringer Nature · Iran | 0.48Q4 | 1.33 1.69 down from 2024 | 107 | — | $3,590 | Falling vs field, 2022–25 | |
Rank 48; likely between #44 and #52 of 58ColorantsOASwitzerland | 0.44Q4 | 2.41 0.24 up from 2024 | 82 | 100% | $1,207 | ||
Rank 49; likely between #46 and #51 of 58Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment SystemsOASDEWES Centre · Croatia | 0.42Q4 | 1.78 0.40 down from 2024 | 117 | 100% | $521 | ||
Rank 50; likely between #43 and #55 of 58Green Energy and Environmental TechnologyIntechOpen | 0.39Q4 | 2.04 0.59 up from 2024 | 37 | 100% | — |
7 Energy journals are labelled rising: their OJR moved up between 2022 and 2025 clearly faster than the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is rising when its OJR grew from 2022 to 2025 faster than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is +10% or more, and it is at least 2 standard errors above zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays above zero, though not necessarily above +10%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the low end of the range, so the surest rises come first.
- 1Acta Physico-Chimica SinicaRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment+186% vs groupOJR 0.59 → 1.63range +120% to +270%
- 2Green Energy & EnvironmentOARenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment+82% vs groupOJR 1.39 → 2.43range +48% to +122%
- 3The Journal of World Energy Law & BusinessGeneral Energy+122% vs groupOJR 0.27 → 0.58range +28% to +283%
- 4Electrochemical Science AdvancesOARenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment+77% vs groupOJR 0.38 → 0.64range +22% to +155%
- 5International Journal of Hydrogen EnergyRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment+21% vs groupOJR 1.21 → 1.42range +17% to +26%
- 6Global ChallengesOARenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment+51% vs groupOJR 1.06 → 1.54range +6.3% to +115%
- 7CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment+20% vs groupOJR 1.99 → 2.29range +4.4% to +37%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -76% to +309% (ratio scale)
11 Energy journals are labelled falling: their OJR moved between 2022 and 2025 clearly behind the median journal of their field or domain.
A journal is falling when its OJR changed from 2022 to 2025 by less than the median journal of its field (or domain, when the field is small), by two tests: the relative change is -9.1% or less (rounded), and it is at least 2 standard errors below zero. So the range of the change at 2 standard errors stays below zero, though not necessarily below -9.1%.
The bar is that range on a ratio scale; the shaded band, -9.1% to +10%, holds changes too small for a label. The list is ordered by the high end of the range, so the surest falls come first.
- 1ChemSusChemRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-30% vs groupOJR 1.44 → 0.98range -35% to -24%
- 2Catalysis Science & TechnologyRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-26% vs groupOJR 0.97 → 0.69range -31% to -21%
- 3Current Opinion in ElectrochemistryRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-28% vs groupOJR 0.38 → 0.26range -38% to -17%
- 4International journal of energy and environmental engineeringRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-39% vs groupOJR 0.82 → 0.48range -58% to -13%
- 5ChemCatChemRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-19% vs groupOJR 0.86 → 0.68range -25% to -12%
- 6Sustainable Energy & FuelsRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-21% vs groupOJR 1.03 → 0.78range -30% to -11%
- 7Applied Catalysis B: EnvironmentalRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-12% vs groupOJR 3.38 → 2.87range -16% to -8.2%
- 8Journal of Colloid and Interface ScienceRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-11% vs groupOJR 1.83 → 1.57range -14% to -7.6%
- 9Advanced Sustainable SystemsRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-19% vs groupOJR 1.20 → 0.94range -32% to -2.6%
- 10BULLETIN OF CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING AND CATALYSISOARenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-25% vs groupOJR 0.41 → 0.30range -42% to -1.7%
- 11Frontiers of Chemical Science and EngineeringRenewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment-19% vs groupOJR 0.98 → 0.77range -33% to -1.4%
No-label zone, -9.1% to +10%Group median changeBar scale -59% to +147% (ratio scale)
The endpoints below each rank show its likely range. How rank ranges are calculated
Citations made in 2025. Corpus-wide, 84.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
12 additional Energy journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2022–2024, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2025. Publication window: 2022–2024. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 58
- Window papers (baseline)
- 156,610 +21.2% from indicator year 2022
- Median OJR
- 0.90 +2.2% from indicator year 2022
- Rising journals (2025)
- 7Comparison-group list (7)
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2022–2024 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 16 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 23 | 26 | 26 | 29 | 32 | 36 | 36 | 41 | 41 | 45 | 46 | 44 | 41 | 45 | 49 | 54 | 58 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 15,137 | 17,187 | 19,006 | 21,447 | 24,127 | 27,323 | 30,403 | 33,905 | 38,233 | 43,381 | 48,798 | 54,272 | 61,905 | 69,488 | 77,886 | 84,852 | 89,706 | 92,507 | 95,102 | 100,982 | 109,823 | 119,796 | 129,207 | 137,588 | 145,743 | 156,610 | |
| Median OJR | 0.71 | 0.69 | 0.80 | 0.95 | 0.784 | 0.93 | 0.748 | 0.68 | 0.64 | 0.76 | 1.027 | 1.25 | 1.06 | 1.033 | 0.999 | 0.85 | 0.785 | 0.745 | 0.72 | 0.861 | 0.856 | 0.94 | 0.88 | 0.83 | 0.863 | 0.90 |
| Measure | Category statistic | Eligible population |
|---|---|---|
| Journal self-citation share | Median: 3.5% | 53 journals |
| Retracted papers per 1,000 | Pooled rate: 1.414 per 1,000 | 39 journals |
| Output growth | Median: +7.3% | 41 journals |
| Open access share | Median: 60.2% | 58 journals |
| Listed APC (USD) | Median including $0 listed prices: $2,750 | 47 ranked journals with a known listed price, including $0 listed prices |
| International collaboration share | Median: 26.8% | 56 journals |
| Review share | Median: 0.0% | 58 journals |
| Articles-only OJR | Median: 0.93 | 56 journals |
| Uncited share | Median: 15.9% | 58 journals |
| Citation concentration | Median: 40.0% | 58 journals |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.