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Focus and Scope

Journal of Ammonia Energy is an international, multi-disciplinary open-access journal in the area of ammonia energy. The journal publishes high-quality work from experimental, theoretical, and computational investigations on the topic of ammonia as an energy vector. While submissions in all pertinent areas are welcomed, recent focus of the journal has been on:

Manuscripts that address fundamental concepts need to include research approaches and results that address the fundamental problems of relevance to a specific application. For applied concepts, authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts which bridge the gaps between research, development and implementation. Journal of Ammonia Energy is also concerned with the attendant problems of modelling and forecasting, and the environmental, social and economic impacts of energy policies and usage of ammonia as an energy vector.

Publication Frequency

Items in this journal are published collectively online, as part of an annual issue with its own Table of Contents. Special collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the journal’s publications. Submission and acceptance dates, along with publication dates, are made available on the PDF format for each paper.
Authors of articles published remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons license agreement.
Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories. For a list of generic and subject-specific repositories that meet our peer review criteria, visit the Open Access Directory or datacite.org.

Archiving & Indexing

The journal’s publisher focuses on making content discoverable and accessible through indexing services. Content is also archived around the world to ensure long-term availability.
Journals are indexed by Google Scholar and available for harvesting via OAI-PMH. DOAJ registration will be completed for our journals on an individual basis as soon as possible.
To ensure permanency of all publications, this journal utilizes the Portico service to create permanent archives for the purposes of preservation and restoration.
Journal content is also made available via Cardiff University’s institutional repository, ORCA.

Journal History

A hydrogen economy has been the focus of researchers and developers over the decades. However, the complexity of moving, storing and employing hydrogen has always been a major obstacle to deploy the concept. Therefore, other materials can be employed to improve handling, reduce cost over long distances and long storage periods, and enable greater control of a less reactive chemical. Ammonia, a high hydrogen content molecule, can be used to store and distribute hydrogen, whilst its own nature can allow its use as a zero-carbon fuel to support the decarbonization transition of transport, power and various industrial sectors. The Journal of Ammonia Energy, conceived and approved in 2021, is the first journal of its kind to address the growing interest of academics, scholars and technologists working on the subject of ammonia as an energy vector. The journal has partnered with globally renowned symposiums and symposia to disseminate the best research on the production, storage, use, handling and additional subjects related to the topic.