期刊名称:ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal

Peer reviewed international journal that examines the relationship between energy systems and society
Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) is a peer-reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles examining the relationship between energy systems and society. ERSS covers a range of topics revolving around the intersection of energy technologies, fuels, and resources on one side; and social processes and influences - including communities of energy users, people affected by energy production, social institutions, customs, traditions, behaviors, and policies - on the other. Put another way, ERSSinvestigates the social system surrounding energy technology and hardware.ERSS is of relevance for energy practitioners, researchers interested in the social aspects of energy production or use, and policymakers.
Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS) provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of how social and technical issues related to both energy production and consumption interact. Energy production, distribution, and consumption all have both technical and human components, and the latter involve the human causes and consequences of energy-related activities and processes as well as social structures that shape how people interact with energy systems. Energy analysis therefore needs to look beyond the dimensions of technology and economics to include these social and human elements.
The journal's authorship is therefore not restricted to any discipline, but it is restricted in terms of quality and subject matter-articles are accepted based on merit, and their focus on the intersection of human activity (at whatever level of analysis) and energy systems (at whatever level of analysis). The editors emphasize that cross cultural, comparative, mixed-methods research is especially encouraged, and discourage submission of single-country case studies and/or studies that rely only on one method in isolation. Authors of single country studies, if submitted, must demonstrate that they have situated their study in the broader context and have highlighted the significance of their study. In addition, studies that utilize primarily engineering methods and econometric models must primarily focus on the "social" side of energy use and clearly meet the aims and scope of the journal.
Disciplinarily, submissions are thus welcome from all fields of inquiry since the editors recognize that in many cases high quality research may not fit into any predetermined category. Moreover, the journal will not exclude any energy source, technology, system, topic, or energy service from the scope of its articles.
Readers are actively encouraged to peruse past issues of ERSS to connect their piece to wider themes and discussions in the journal, especially the inaugural special issue available here.
Types of Articles
The journal publishes four types of articles: • Original research articles (generally between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including references) • Perspectives (generally 2,000 to 5,000 words) • Review essays (8,000 to 12,000 words)
Peer-review
Articles submitted to the journal will undergo two levels of review. First, the editor(s) will screen them to determine their appropriateness to the aims and scope of the journal, as well as to gauge their methodological rigor and their quality of English writing. Second, if articles pass the editorial screening, they will undergo rigorous peer review by anonymised referees (double blind review). Generally, articles can receive one of five decisions:
- Accept: accepts the paper as is with no further review, the paper proceeds to proofing
- Accept with minor revisions: accepts the paper as long as the author responds adequately to reviewer/editor comments, the paper proceeds to editorial review with no peer re-review (editor reserves the right to send it to peer review)
- Revise: provides no guarantee that a paper will be accepted but it has a second chance, the paper proceeds to editorial review always followed by peer re-review
- Reject: rejects a paper (after peer-review) with no chance for re-review, authors are not invited to revise and resubmit the manuscript; submission in current state is not suitable for the journal
- Reject - out of scope: rejects a paper (after editorial-review) with no chance for re-review, authors are not invited to revise and resubmit the manuscript; submission in current state is not suitable for the journal.
To assist with the advancement of the journal, all authors of accepted articles in ERSS may be requested to review at least one article in the area of their expertise.
Instructions to Authors 731419.pdf
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, Jubilee Building, Room 367, University of Sussex, BN1 9SL, Falmer, East Sussex, England, UKEmail Benjamin Sovacool
Associate Editors
Jonn AxsenSimon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Institute for Future Energy, Consumer Needs and Behavior, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA
Managing Editor
School of Environment and Technology (SET), University of Brighton, Moulsecoomb, Brighton, UK
Editorial Board
Øystein AasNorwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Lillehammer, Norway
Jillian AnableUniversity of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Philip Andrews-SpeedThe National University of Singapore, Singapore
Kathy AraújoStony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, USA
Pascale BlythAalto University, Finland
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Sanya CarleyIndiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Chien-fei ChenUniversity of Tennessee - Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Aleh CherpCentral European University, Budapest, Hungary and Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Adam CooperUniversity College London (UCL), London, England, UK
Sarah J. DarbyUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK
Rosie DayUniversity of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK
Patrick Devine-WrightUniversity of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK
Laura Diaz AnadonUniversity of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Thomas DietzMichigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Navroz DubashCentre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India
Darrick EvensenUniversity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Jeremy FirestoneUniversity of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Andreas GoldthauRoyal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK
Kirsten Gram-HanssenDanish Building Research Institute, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
Matthias GrossHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; University of Jena, Jena, Germany
Victoria HainesLoughborough University, Loughborough, England, UK
Tom HargreavesUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK
Mike HazasLancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Noel HealySalem State University, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
Richard HirshVirginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Russell HitchingsUniversity College London (UCL), London, UK
Michael HowlettSimon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Kathryn JandaUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK
Sheila JasanoffHarvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Jessica JewellInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Chris JonesUniversity of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK
Johannes KesterAarhus University, Herning, Denmark
Loren LutzenhiserPortland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Yuwan MalakarUniversity of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Aaron M. McCrightMichigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Lucie MiddlemissUniversity of Leeds, Leeds, England, UK
Mithra MoezziPortland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
Gwen OttingerDrexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Yael ParagInterdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Martin J. PasqualettiArizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Anna Laura PiselloInteruniversity Research Center (CIRIAF), University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
M.V. RamanaUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Marianne RyghaugNorwegian University of Science & Technology NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Devyani SinghUniversity of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Brian SouthwellRTI International & Duke University, USA
Alexa SpenceThe University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, UK
Daniel SprengETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
Linda StegRijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Paul SternSocial and Environmental Research Institute (SERI), Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Yolande StrengersRMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Kacper SzuleckiUniversity of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
May Tan-MullinsThe University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China
Scott ValentineNational University of Singapore, Singapore
Thijs Van de GraafGhent University, Ghent, Belgium
Dan Van der HorstUniversity of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
David VictorUC San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Gordon WalkerLancaster University, Lancaster, UK
David WalwynUniversity of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Lorraine WhitmarshUniversity of Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, UK
Harold WilhiteUniversity of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Charlie WilsonUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK
Catherine WongUniversity of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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