Journal of Energy Chemistry

Little classmate, are you trying to cut off the editing work? Haha, without editing, the most crucial work and role would be gone (chuckles). All manuscripts need to be reviewed, which may lead to a situation where a manuscript needs to be reviewed by different journals, wasting your submission time and the time of the reviewers. Take a look at the articles published by JEC every year, look at the distribution of schools and funding, and then feel free to provide suggestions to the journal. To make a good journal, the editorial department and editorial board must listen to opinions from all parties, especially from authors and readers, which are extremely valuable! Also, from my perspective, I have never believed that funding influences the selection of an article. It is not easy to produce good work without funding, and editors should be more inclined to publish corresponding work! Similarly, for schools with limited equipment, producing high-quality research results is even more difficult, so there is no reason not to publish them! Taking this opportunity, on behalf of the JEC editorial department, I declare that we welcome teachers and students to discuss their submission experience and provide valuable feedback. We will carefully consider and promptly rectify any issues that need to be corrected, and continue to promote the areas where we excel.

The impact factor of the Journal of Energy Chemistry increases dramatically every year. I have to say, the small research group has a good idea and the content they produce is substantial. They have molecular dynamics simulations and in-situ electrochemical tests, but they don't even send it for review. In the email, it says that the rejection rate of JEC is 85% and the impact factor is 9.6, but I have checked and even found impact factors above 13. However, I downloaded two articles from 2022 in the same field as mine that were accepted, and there was nothing innovative about them. The figures in the main text were also ordinary. Our laboratory has submitted to JEC four times, and I have personally submitted two papers, but none of them were sent for review. Other research groups just need to have a famous researcher's name on it, and it gets sent for review and accepted. What does it matter if the impact factor is 9.6? If they publish fewer articles and have more reviews in each issue, they can manipulate it and make it higher. Fast rejections are also a good thing because it doesn't delay submitting to the next journal. ACS journals, regardless of their quality or influence, are very good. Although many have been suppressed to the second tier, do they really care about manipulating the impact factor?