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Energy Strategy Reviews 1 (2012) 1e2

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Energy Strategy Reviews


journal homepage: www.ees.elsevier.com/esr

EDITORIAL

Energy Strategy Reviews: Perspective and Ambition

This maiden issue contains peer-reviewed articles on energy strategy, planning, decision making, modeling and analysis related to
societys energy needs. The lead article, authored by a representative team of experts on the Editorial Board, reviews the models
and actors relevant for the future optimization of Energy Mix solutions. The challenge is to improve, not only the energy system models,
but also the alignment of leading decision-makers who must use these models to effectuate optimum strategy choices for our future
energy systems. Our journals vision is that the sharing of energy visions and strategy plans by organizations, corporations and states
will contribute to establish a common knowledge base for optimizing our future energy choices. Optimists bet on Human ingenuity
to spring the Malthusian trap, as it has done so before - the Economist. Energy Strategy Reviews captures and disseminates that
ingenuity.

Getting started Aims and Scope visions and strategies by international


agencies, governments, corporations and
Starting a new journal is not something Energy Strategy Reviews provides a single NGOs. Articles will be fact-based, founded
that can be realized overnight. Energy platform for publishing authoritative content in trends for new tools and technologies,
Strategy Reviews (ESR) has been developed on strategic decision-making and vision- energy mixes, demographics, and geograph-
in close consultation with experts in the field sharing related to societys energy needs. ical variations, and focus on the implications
and Elsevier. A couple of important go/no-go The journal stimulates the exchange and for the future. Research papers on decision-
dates have been successfully passed in the sharing of knowledge and best practice in making related to energy strategy (with
course of 2010. The detailed arrangements energy strategy, planning and implementa- limited emphasis on tools and methods) will
with Elsevier were completed in June 2011. tion. Practitioner analyses and scholarly arti- also be considered. An analysis is subject to
The Aims and Scope of the journal were final- cles are peer-reviewed. Analytical reviews of a 10e12 pp article limit.
ized in July 2011, and we went online in energy strategies, aimed at revealing what  Case Study e Problem-oriented short paper
August 2011. The Elsevier Editorial System underpins successful and less successful strat- dedicated to specific energy strategy ques-
was uploaded with the appropriate classifica- egies, are welcome. tions with an innovative focus. Case studies
tion categories so editors and authors could Energy Strategy Reviews will also highlight on energy strategy implementation chal-
find matching experts. major energy initiatives in executive summary lenges and opportunities are of particular
In September 2011, the first official journal style, with reference to relevant support mate- interest. A Case Study requires a concise
announcement went out in an e-mailing rial. The sharing of energy visions and strategy presentation and is subject to a 5 pp article
campaign to nearly 50,000 people. Within 24 plans by organizations, corporations and states limit.
hours, nearly 10,000 people had opened their will contribute to establish a common knowl-  Report Review e A Report Review summa-
mail, and 1,500 had visited the web pages of edge base for optimizing future energy choices. rizes, reviews and comments on a single
Energy Strategy Reviews. We immediately major energy report, or several major inter-
received enthusiastic responses, and a dozen related reports (strategies, scenarios,
Sections featured
manuscripts were uploaded by authors from statistics), published by international and
around the globe in the journal management national organizations, such as energy
Launching in 2012 Energy Strategy
system. Most were judged outside the Aims agencies and corporations. All peer-
Reviews will fill the gap between the tech-
and Scope of the journal, but some of these reviewed Report Reviews must aim to
nical and scientific energy journals and
papers may eventually make into print. achieve a good balance between graphical
the reports published by agencies, consultan-
display of data, methodology and conclu-
I think this is a timely journal, and wish it cies and businesses. Energy Strategy Reviews
sions. Depending on the scope, the article
great success e Prof. T. Nejat Veziroglu, offers a focused peer-reviewed platform for
page limit can vary from 1 to 5 pp.
Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Interna- articles on energy strategy, planning, deci-
tional Journal of Hydrogen Energy pub- sion making, modeling and analysis. We
lished by Elsevier on behalf of the IAHE. feature the following sections: Commissioned content
This new journal is very much needed e
Prof. Ignacio Perez-Arriaga, Director of  Analysis e Authoritative, full-length analysis The journal appears quarterly with 4
the BP Chair on Energy and Sustainability, of the drivers, trends, scenarios, and ramifi- issues planned for 2012. The journal content
Comillas University, Madrid. cations of national and international energy for the first few issues is mostly commissioned

2211-467X/$ e see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.esr.2011.11.001
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from known experts, to ensure high quality


and focus. However, authors with relevant,
high-quality output are strongly encouraged
to submit their papers to the journal. In the
first year, each issue will be thematic with
emphasis on a particular energy resource.
Issues are now planned as follows: #1 Focus
on Natural Gas and Energy Strategy, #2: Focus
on Oil and Energy Strategy, #3: Focus on Coal
and Electrical Power Strategies, #4: Focus on
Nuclear Energy Strategies.
The Journal will provide a platform for
new insights and relevant results that serve
the interest of authors and readers from all
parts of the world by providing comprehen-
sive and top-quality coverage. Researchers
are increasingly under pressure to publish
articles in journals with high impact actors.
Funding agencies expect researchers to
publish in journals with high impact factors.
ESR would like to establish a respectable
impact factor ideally after two year of first
publication.

Challenges Fig. 1. China versus US world share of total article output (1996-2008) extrapolated with a linear best-fit trend.
Selected country shares of global output are also included. Source: Scopus Country Data, October 2010; Elsevier Editors
Energy strategy and its impact on energy Update Issue 33 September 2011 volume 3.
market dynamics play a central role in solving
the worlds energy needs. The global energy and when necessary, (2) suggesting and edit- the journals profile and impact right from
market is considerably impacted by the mete- ing special issues, and (3) mobilizing an ever the start. ScienceDirect is Elseviers leading
oric rise of China, which has overtaken the US expanding network of reviewers to get the full-text scientific database offering journal
as worlds largest energy consumer in 2009. job done. The profiles of our Editors are out- articles and book chapters from more than
China will also overtake the US role as the lined at the journals web portal (www. 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than
worlds largest scientific output generator elsevier.com/locate/esr). 11,000 books. ScienceDirect is a vital daily
by 2013 (Fig. 1) - and it is set to become The Editor-in-Chief screens and makes an source of information for more than 16 million
the worlds largest economy by 2016 (on initial assessment on the suitability of all manu- researchers, scientists and professionals
purchasing-power-parity basis; and in 2019 scripts submitted for potential publication in around the globe. The ScienceDirect Energy
using real growth and exchange rates). The Energy Strategy Reviews. We only send manu- area alone has close to 500,000 unique visi-
explosive growth in article output of China is scripts out for review if these meet the scope tors each month and more than 3 million
unique. While India is catching up, output of the journal, with an emphasis on originality page views per month. In addition the journal
numbers are still modest but the growth and significance in the broad development of will be automatically listed in Scopus (http://
percentage is impressive (Fig. 1). The the energy strategy field. www.scopus.com/home.url), the worlds
geographical shift in the energy balance is The Associate Editors advise the Editor-in- largest abstract and citation database of
reflected in the worlds scientific output. A Chief on the decision categories (rejection, peer-reviewed literature and quality web
gradual adaptation of journals authors and minor revision, major revision, acceptance) sources. ESR will be promoted at the World
editorial boards takes place to mirror the based on the detailed reports of the Future Energy Summit held in Abu Dhabi,
rise of Asia. ESR will follow that trend. reviewers commissioned by them. The work- January 2012 (http://www.worldfutureener
flow between the Editor-in-Chief, Associate gysummit.com/).
Editorial board Editors and Reviewers is assisted by the Elsev-
ier on-line journal management system. Ruud Weijermars, Editor-in-Chief
Our Editorial Board taps into a network of Delft University of Technology,
the worlds premier energy system modelers Freely available and webcast The Netherlands
and covers the entire field of energy strategy. Henri van Dorssen, Executive Publisher
We exercise the following tasks and responsi- Energy Strategy Reviews, in its first year, Elsevier Limited, UK
bilities: (1) Re-adjusting, influencing and will be made freely available to ScienceDirect
safe-guarding the strategic direction for and users (http://www.sciencedirect.com/) to Available online 7 November 2011
positioning of the journal from time to time maximize awareness worldwide and to build

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