''Energy & Environment'' is an
academic journal
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"covering the direct and indirect environmental impacts of energy acquisition, transport, production and use".
["Energy & Environment".]
Accessed: 19 May 2012. Under its
editor-in-chief
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The highest-ranking editor of a publication may also be titled editor, managing ...
from 1998 to 2017,
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (born 1942) is an Emeritus Reader in the Department of Geography at the University of Hull in Kingston upon Hull England, where she taught environmental policy, management and politics. She was editor of the journal '' ...
, it was known for easygoing
peer-review
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and publishing
climate change denial
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papers.
Yiu Fai Tsang
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became its editor-in-chief in May 2017.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the
Social Sciences Citation Index
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,
Scopus
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,
EBSCO databases
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,
Current Contents
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History
''Cur ...
/Social & Behavioral Sciences, and
Compendex
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The name "Compendex" stands for COMPuterized ENgineering inDEX.
It covers scientific literature pertaining to engineering materials.
It started in 1884 under the name ...
.
According to the ''
Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal had a 2021
impact factor
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of 2.945, ranking it 65th out of 125 journals in the category "Environmental Studies".
History
The journal was first published in 1989; David Everest (
Department of the Environment
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, 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 had previously been associated with "the Energy and Environment Groups" at the
Science and Technology Policy Unit (
University of Sussex
, mottoeng = Be Still and Know
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £14.4 million (2020)
, budget = £319.6 million (2019–20)
, chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar
, vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil
, ...
), with John Surrey.
Its publisher,
Multi-science ceased trading on 31 December 2015 and the journal was transferred to
SAGE
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** Lamiaceae, a family of flowering plants commonly known as the mint or deadnettle or sage family
** ''Salvia'', a large ...
. In May 2017,
Yiu Fai Tsang
Yao (), also romanized as Yiu in Cantonese, is one of the most ancient Chinese surnames, the "Eight Great Surnames of Chinese Antiquity, Eight Great Xings of High Antiquity". It is also unique that, along with Jiang 姜 it is still in common use i ...
became the journal's editor.
Climate change denial and criticism
The journal was regarded as "a small journal that caters to climate change denialists". It has played an important role in attacking climate science and scientists, for example
Michael E. Mann.
[
In 2011, a number of scientists such ]Gavin Schmidt
Gavin A. Schmidt is a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, and co-founder of the award-winning climate science blog RealClimate.
Work
He was educated at The Corsham Schoo ...
, Roger A. Pielke Jr.
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, Stephan Lewandowsky
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and Michael Ashley have criticised that ''E&E'' has low standards of peer review and little impact. 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?"[
A 2005 article in '']Environmental Science & Technology
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'' stated that the journal is "obscure" and that "scientific claims made in ''Energy & Environment'' have little credibility among scientists." 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
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(IPCC)/Climatic Research Unit
The Climatic Research Unit (CRU) is a component of the University of East Anglia and is one of the leading institutions concerned with the study of natural and anthropogenic climate change.
With a staff of some thirty research scientists and s ...
people." According to Hans von Storch
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, the journal "tries to give people who do not have a platform a platform," which "is then attractive for skeptic papers. They know they can come through and that interested people make sure the paper enters the political realm."[
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
The Soon and Baliunas controversy involved the publication in 2003 of a review study written by the aerospace engineer Willie Soon and astronomer Sallie Baliunas in the journal ''Climate Research'', which was quickly taken up by the George W. Bu ...
, Boehmer-Christiansen said, "I'm following my political agenda -- a bit, anyway. But isn't that the right of the editor?"
The journal has also been accused of publishing papers that could not have passed any reasonable peer review process, such as one in 2011 that claimed that the Sun
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was made of iron
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.
See also
* Environmental engineering science
Environmental engineering science (EES) is a multidisciplinary field of engineering science that combines the biological, chemical and physical sciences with the field of engineering. This major traditionally requires the student to take basic en ...
References
External links
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Energy and fuel journals
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Climate change denial
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