Energy & Environment

Energy & Environment  
Abbreviated title (ISO 4)
 Energ. Environ.
Discipline Environment, climate change, energy economics, energy policy
Language English
Edited by Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Publication details
Publisher
Multi-Science
Publication history
 1989-present
Frequency 8/year
0.319
Indexing
ISSN 0958-305X
LCCN 2003210598
CODEN EENVE2
OCLC no. 21187549
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Energy & Environment (E&E) is an academic journal "covering the direct and indirect environmental impacts of energy acquisition, transport, production and use".[1] Its editor-in-chief since 1998 is Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index,[2] Scopus,[3] EBSCO databases,[4] Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Compendex.[1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 0.319, ranking it 90th out of 93 journals in the category "Environmental Studies".[5]

Objective

The journal's mission statement states that the publication's "objective is to inform across professional and disciplinary boundaries and debate the social, economic, political and technological implications of environmental controls, as well as interrogate the science claims made to justify environmental regulations of the energy industries, including transport."[6]

History

Energy & Environment was first published in 1989; David Everest (Department of the Environment, United Kingdom) was its founding editor. Following his death in 1998, Boehmer-Christiansen became the journal's editor. She and several members of the journal's editorial advisory board previously had been associated with "the Energy and Environment Groups" at the Science and Technology Policy Unit (University of Sussex), with John Surrey.[6] Benny Peiser has served as co-editor.[7]

Criticism

According to a 2011 article in The Guardian, Gavin Schmidt and Roger A. Pielke, Jr. said that E&E has had low standards of peer review and little impact.[8] In addition, Ralph Keeling criticized a paper in the journal which claimed that CO2 levels were above 400 ppm in 1825, 1857 and 1942, writing in a letter to the editor, "Is it really the intent of E&E to provide a forum for laundering pseudo-science?"[8][9] A 2005 article in Environmental Science & Technology stated that "scientific claims made in Energy & Environment have little credibility among scientists."[10] Boehmer-Christiansen acknowledged that the journal's "impact rating has remained too low for many ambitious young researchers to use it", but blamed this on "the negative attitudes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)/Climatic Research Unit people."[11]

Climate change skepticism

When asked about the publication in the Spring of 2003 of a revised version of the paper at the center of the Soon and Baliunas controversy, Boehmer-Christiansen said, "I'm following my political agenda -- a bit, anyway. But isn't that the right of the editor?"[12]

Part of the journal's official mission statement reads: "E&E has consistently striven to publish many ‘voices’ and to challenge conventional wisdoms. Perhaps more so than other European energy journal, the editor has made E&E a forum for more sceptical analyses of ‘climate change’ and the advocated solutions".[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Energy & Environment". Accessed: May 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Master Journal list". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  3. ↑ "Energy and Environment". Scopus., accessed 24 June 2015 (subscription required)
  4. ↑ "Environment Index: Database Coverage List" (PDF). EBSCO. Retrieved 2009-11-30.
  5. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Environmental Studies". 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Sciences ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 "Energy & Environment: Mission Statement". Multi-Science Publishing. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
  7. ↑ "Energy & Environment". Multi-Science Publishing. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. Retrieved 2012-08-11.
  8. 1 2 Barley, Shanta (February 25, 2011). "Real Climate faces libel suit". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  9. ↑ Keeling, Ralph (September 2007). "Comment on "180 years of atmospheric CO2 gas analysis by chemical methods" by ernst-georg beck". Energy & Environment 18 (5): 635–641. doi:10.1260/0958-305x.18.5.635.
  10. ↑ Thacker, Paul D. (31 August 2005). "Skeptics get a journal" (PDF). Environ. Sci. Technol. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  11. ↑ Memorandum submitted by Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (CRU 26)
  12. ↑ Monastersky, Richard (September 5, 2003). "Storm Brews Over Global Warming". Chronicle of Higher Education.

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