Energy & Environment

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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
Impact factor
(2011)		 0.319
Indexing
ISSN 0958-305X
LCCN 2003210598
CODEN EENVE2
OCLC number 21187549
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Energy & Environment (E&E) is a peer-reviewed[1][2] academic journal "covering the direct and indirect environmental impacts of energy acquisition, transport, production and use".[3] 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,[4] Scopus,[5] EBSCO databases,[2][6] Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Compendex.[3] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 0.319, ranking it 87th out of 90 journals in the category "Environmental Studies".[7]

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."[8]

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.[8] Benny Peiser has served as co-editor.[9]

Criticism

According to a 2011 article in The Guardian, Gavin Schmidt and Roger A. Pielke, Jr. claimed that E&E has had low standards of peer review and little impact.[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]

Boehmer-Christiansen explained her "political agenda" in a post to an article at the "Carbon Brief" website criticizing Energy & Environment:

My political agenda for E&E is not party political but relates to academic and intellectual freedom. I am an [sic] geographer turned international relations specialist (environment as special field) and as such have long been critical of environmentalist exaggerations. I have observed and recorded 'scare mongering' effects utilised by politics on policy and economic competition since the early 1980s. I now believe that in a subject as new, complex and poorly understood as climate science and climate history over geologic time – which I studied as a physical geographer and geomorphologist in Australia – all voices should be published and debated. However, the opposite happened once the climate research, with help of the IPCC and the WMO became de facto servants of global and EU energy ambitions.[13]

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".[8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Social Sciences Citation Index". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2011-05-03. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Environment Complete: Database Coverage List". EBSCO. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Energy & Environment". Accessed: May 19, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Master Journal list". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2011-05-09. 
  5. ↑ "Energy and Environment". Scopus. , accessed 24 June 2009 (subscription required)
  6. ↑ "Environment Index: Database Coverage List". EBSCO. Retrieved 2009-11-30. 
  7. ↑ "Journals Ranked by Impact: Environmental Studies". 2012 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Social Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2013. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Energy & Environment: Mission Statement". Multi-Science Publishing. Retrieved 2012-08-11. 
  9. ↑ "Energy & Environment". Multi-Science Publishing. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. Retrieved 2012-08-11. 
  10. ↑ Barley, Shanta (February 25, 2011). "Real Climate faces libel suit". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2011. 
  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. 
  13. ↑ "Energy and Environment – "journal of choice for climate skeptics" Analysing the 900+ skeptic papers part III". Retrieved 2011-05-10. 

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