Energy & Environment

Energy & Environment  
Discipline Environment, climate change, energy economics, energy policy
Language English
Edited by Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen
Publication details
Publication history
 1989-present
Publisher
Multi-Science
Frequency 8/year
0.319
Standard abbreviations
Energy Environ.
Indexing
CODEN EENVE2
ISSN 0958-305X
LCCN 2003210598
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. It is known for easygoing peer-review and publishing climate change denial papers.

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]

Climate change denial and criticism

The journal is regarded as "a small journal that caters to climate change denialists".[8] It has played an important role in attacking climate science and scientists, for example Michael E. Mann.[9]

Several scientists and socials scientists such Gavin Schmidt, Roger A. Pielke, Jr. Stephan Lewandowsky and Michael Ashley, have criticised that E&E has low standards of peer review and little impact.[10][11] 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?"[10][12]

A 2005 article in Environmental Science & Technology stated that the journal is "obscure" and that "scientific claims made in Energy & Environment have little credibility among scientists."[9] 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."[13] According to Hans von Storch, 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.”[9]

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?"[14]

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. ↑ Riley Dunlap, Aaron M. McCright: Challenging Climate Change. The Denial Countermovement. In: Riley Dunlap, Robert J. Brulle (Hrsg.): Climate Change and Society. Sociological Perspectives. Report of the American Sociological Association’s Task Force on Sociology and Global Climate Change. Oxford University Press, 2015, 300–332, p 324 and 328.
  9. 1 2 3 Thacker, Paul D. (31 August 2005). "Skeptics get a journal" (PDF). Environ. Sci. Technol. American Chemical Society. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  10. 1 2 Barley, Shanta (February 25, 2011). "Real Climate faces libel suit". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
  11. ↑ Stephan Lewandowsky, Michael Ashley: The weird and wacky world of climate change denial. The Australian. 22. june 2011.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ Memorandum submitted by Dr Sonja Boehmer-Christiansen (CRU 26)
  14. ↑ Monastersky, Richard (September 5, 2003). "Storm Brews Over Global Warming". Chronicle of Higher Education.
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