Batteries | Call for Special Issue Proposals

Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105) is currently recruiting Special Issue Guest Editors for the following five Sections:

• “Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others; ”
• “Battery Mechanisms and Fundamental Electrochemistry Aspects”;
• “Battery Processing and Manufacturing”;
• “Battery Modelling, Simulation, Management and Application”;
• “Battery Performance, Ageing, Reliability and Safety”.

Our current Special Issues can be seen here, and the aim and scope of our journal can be viewed here. If you are interested in applying for this position, or if you could recommend potential candidates, please contact the Batteries Editorial Office (batteries@mdpi.com) for more details.

Batteries is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of battery technology and materials, published quarterly online by MDPI. In October 2021, Batteries was accepted for coverage in the Science Citation Indexed Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science, as it was identified as a high performer, ranking in Q2. It is also indexed within Scopus, Inspect, and many other databases. The journal is due to receive an Impact Factor upon the June 2022 release of the Journal Citation Reports.

The CiteScore in 2020 Scopus data is as follows: 5.7; ranked Q1 in the categories of "Energy Engineering and Power Technology" and "Electrical and Electronic Engineering". The Batteries website can be accessed here. Alternatively, you may wish to submit your work directly here.

Please feel free to contact the Batteries Editorial Office (batteries@mdpi.com) if you are interested in this proposal. We will send further details upon hearing from you.

Please prepare your proposal as follows:

• A 200-word summary to rationally explain the proposed topic’s significance, novelty, technical advancement, and adherence to the scope of the journal;
• A few keywords on the topic;
• A list of planned papers or potential authors in the field;
• A brief resume of the Guest Editor.

Guest Editor’s role:

• Circulate the Call for Papers for the Special Issue and solicit quality papers;
• Check the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue and recommend suitable reviewers as appropriate;
• Make the final decision regarding whether to accept or reject a paper;
• Promote the Special Issue and increase its visibility at related academic conferences;
• Regarding the editorial process, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/editorial_process.

Guest Editor’s benefits:

• A recognition certificate as a Guest Editor of Batteries;
• If more than five papers are published in the Special Issue, the entire issue could be published in book format (you would receive a complimentary hard copy for your collection);
• You would receive flyers designed by the Editorial Office so that you could promote the Special Issue by distributing them when participating in academic activities.

Editorial Office’s role:

The Editorial Office will take care of setting up the Special Issue website, arranging promotional material, assisting with invitations to contribute papers, in addition to taking care of administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and professional production before publication.

We look forward to receiving your proposals (https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/batteries).

If you are interested in becoming a Guest Editor of Batteries, please send your application and proposal to the Batteries Editorial Office (batteries@mdpi.com). We look forward to working with you in the future.