Nature Energy
scientific journal
Nature Energy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. The editor-in-chief is Nicky Dean. The 2017 efficiency record (26.6%) in solar cell technology was published in the journal.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 67.439, ranking it 1st out of 119 journals in the category "Energy & Fuels" and 2nd out of 345 journals in the category "Materials Science, Multidisciplinary".
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This entry incorporates text from “Nature Energy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.