About Alternative Energy and Ecology (ISJAEE)

Alternative Energy and Ecology (ISJAEE) — Journal Profile

Alternative Energy and Ecology, widely cited by its acronym ISJAEE and known in full as the International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology, is a Russian scientific journal based in Sarov, in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, devoted to hydrogen energy, renewable and alternative energy systems, and the ecological consequences of how energy is produced, stored and used. Its print ISSN is 1608-8298, the identifier that anchors this profile and distinguishes the journal from the many other titles that use the words alternative energy, ecology or environment in their names. The journal was founded in 2000 by the Scientific Technical Centre TATA, under founder and editor-in-chief Alexander Leonidovich Gusev, and it presents itself on its official site as an official journal of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) and of the International Association for Alternative Energy and Ecology (IAAEE). For readers of Journals World, the essential fact is that ISJAEE is not a general environmental magazine and not a solar-only or wind-only specialist title. It grew out of the Russian hydrogen-energy research community centred on Sarov, a city with a deep nuclear and physics research tradition, and its pages reflect that origin: physical, chemical and engineering research first, with ecology treated mainly as the environmental side of energy systems.

This profile is based on the journal's own official site, the biographical record of its editor-in-chief, article-level citation records that show how ISJAEE papers are referenced, and the Journals World record for this post, which records ISSN 1608-8298, a Russian country of publication and an h-index of 12 in its directory data. Where the journal's older official pages describe arrangements from the 2000s and 2010s — for example its English-language translation arrangements and its publication rhythm in that period — this profile says so explicitly and dates the claim, rather than presenting a dated statement as a current guarantee. Where a fact could not be verified from an official source, it is stated as not publicly disclosed rather than filled in by guesswork.

At a glance

History and origins

ISJAEE was founded in 2000, when Alexander L. Gusev developed what he called the Concept of Alternative Energy and Ecology. That concept was endorsed by T. Nejat Veziroglu, the internationally known hydrogen-energy pioneer who later served as the journal's honorary editor-in-chief in the United States, and by Academician Yuriy Alekseevich Trutnev of the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre. The journal was created by the Scientific Technical Centre TATA under a licence arrangement involving Gusev as founder, and from the start it was one element of a wider system built around the same idea: an international association for alternative energy and ecology, Russian hydrogen-energy associations, scientific conferences and an information portal all grew alongside the journal. Understanding that system matters for readers, because ISJAEE has never presented itself simply as a passive outlet waiting for submissions. Its editorial community organised the field it published in — convening forums, helping to establish the National Hydrogen Energy Association of Russia in the early 2000s, and using the journal as the printed record of a research network.

The journal's official history notes that by its fifteenth anniversary in 2015 it had published 200 issues containing more than 3,800 scientific papers by researchers from more than 50 countries. Those figures are the journal's own, reported on its official site, and they give a realistic sense of scale: ISJAEE is a high-volume specialist journal rather than a small quarterly. Its Sarov base is also significant. Sarov hosts the Russian Federal Nuclear Centre (RFNC-VNIIEF), and several senior figures in the journal's leadership, including Trutnev, came from that institute's physics community. That background helps explain the journal's persistent emphasis on hydrogen storage in metals, hydrides, high-pressure systems, radiation and explosion physics, and other topics where energy research meets fundamental physical science — a flavour quite different from the economics- and policy-led coverage found in many Western renewable-energy journals.

The journal also organised or co-organised a series of international forums whose names recur in its history, including IFSSEHT-2000 and IFSSEHT-2003, the World Congress on Alternative Energy and Ecology (WCAEE-2006), which its site reports drew about 1,000 participants from 18 countries, and further hydrogen and renewable-energy meetings in 2006. In 2016 the journal received an award of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy, presented in Zaragoza, Spain, according to the editor-in-chief's biographical record. Readers tracing older citations should be aware that the journal's English presence has always been partly mediated through partner titles, a point explained in the publishing-model section below, so a paper encountered in English in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy may have an ISJAEE origin, and vice versa.

Scope: what ISJAEE actually publishes

The journal's official description places its emphasis on original, previously unpublished research in the physical-mathematical, engineering and chemical sciences, focusing on physics, kinetics and catalysis, ecology organised by sector, and work connected with aircraft, space-rocket and power engineering. In practice, the Journals World subject record for this post captures the centre of gravity well: hydrogen storage and materials, hybrid renewable energy systems, solar thermal and photovoltaic systems, power systems and renewable energy, hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion behaviour in metals, and advanced power generation. A useful way to read the scope is in four layers.

Hydrogen energy and hydrogen materials

Hydrogen is the journal's historical core. Papers address hydrogen production, storage and transport; metal hydrides and other storage materials; the interaction of hydrogen with metals, including embrittlement and corrosion; fuel-cell-related materials and systems; and the safety and engineering of a hydrogen economy. This is the area in which the journal's links to IAHE and to Veziroglu matter most, and it is the area where ISJAEE's Russian-language research connects to the long-running English-language International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. Researchers working on hydrogen storage materials who only search English-language databases will miss part of this literature, which is one reason a dedicated profile for the Russian title is worthwhile.

Solar, wind and hybrid renewable systems

The second layer is renewable generation, especially solar thermal and photovoltaic systems, and hybrid systems that combine sources — for example solar with storage, or renewables with conventional backup — to deliver usable power. The Journals World record lists hybrid renewable energy systems and solar thermal and photovoltaic systems among its lead topics, and the journal's English translation arrangement with the journal Solar Energy reflects the importance of this strand. Work here is typically engineering-led: device performance, system design, thermal processes and experimental results, rather than market commentary.

Power engineering, conversion and storage

The third layer covers power systems more broadly: energy conversion, advanced power generation, energy storage, and the physical and chemical processes inside energy devices. Kinetics and catalysis — named explicitly in the official scope — belong here, because catalysts and reaction rates sit underneath hydrogen production, fuel processing and emissions control. The journal's roots in a nuclear-centre city also show in a willingness to publish work on high-energy and extreme-condition systems that a purely environmental journal would not normally carry.

Ecology of energy

The fourth layer is ecology, but in the journal's specific sense: the environmental effects and environmental applications of energy technology, organised by sector. This includes the ecological assessment of energy systems and ecologically motivated engineering, rather than ecology as pure biological science. Readers looking for biodiversity, conservation biology or ecosystem ecology as primary subjects should look elsewhere; readers looking for the environmental dimension of hydrogen, solar and power engineering are in the right place. Keeping that distinction clear is the most important scope judgement in this profile, because the word ecology in the title regularly leads general readers to expect a different journal from the engineering-led publication ISJAEE actually is.

Editorial leadership and community

The editor-in-chief is Alexander Leonidovich Gusev, founder of the journal, general director of the Scientific Technical Centre TATA, and a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (rendered in the journal's English pages as the Royal Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts). His published curriculum vitae traces the 2000 concept, the creation of the journal and its sister association, and a long list of organised conferences, and it lists his researcher identifiers including ORCID 0000-0002-3920-7389. Honorary and deputy roles on the journal's published board have included T. Nejat Veziroglu (IAHE, Miami, USA), Yuriy A. Trutnev and Vladimir E. Fortov — both academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Fortov having served as president of that academy — Sergey M. Aldoshin, and P. Saint-Gregoire of the University of Toulon in France. Board membership changes over time and this profile does not present a dated board list as a current roster; authors should consult the journal's current official pages for the board in force at the time they submit. The pattern the board list demonstrates, however, is durable: senior Russian physical-science figures, a French university deputy editor, and an honorary link to the American-led international hydrogen association — a board that matches the journal's claim to be a meeting point between the Russian hydrogen school and the wider international community.

Publishing model, frequency and languages

The journal's official pages have described an unusually frequent publication rhythm — published three times a month, with volumes built from groups of issues — reflecting the high-volume model reported in its anniversary figures. Because those pages are dated, this profile reports that rhythm as the journal's own published description rather than as a freshly verified current schedule; the live official site is the authoritative source for the present timetable. Manuscripts have been published in Russian and in English in their original language. The distinctive feature of the model, again as described by the journal itself, is translation exchange with Elsevier partner journals: all papers appear in the Russian ISJAEE, while selected material appears in English in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and in Solar Energy, with the best ISJAEE papers published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and papers of interest moving in the other direction as well. The journal has stated that once an English version appears in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, it enters the indexing attached to that journal, including Scopus and Web of Science coverage of the partner title. Readers must apply that claim carefully: it describes the partner journal's indexing for the translated version, and should not be read as a blanket statement that every Russian-language ISJAEE item carries the same indexing status. Checking the individual article — its language version, its DOI and where it is indexed — is the reliable way to cite work from this ecosystem.

Article-level citations show DOIs under the prefix 10.15518/isjaee, for example in references to ISJAEE articles from 2017, which gives authors and librarians a stable way to trace individual papers even when the journal's own website is hard to navigate from outside Russia. Open-access status, article charges and licensing terms for current submissions are not publicly disclosed in a single clear statement on the sources consulted for this profile, so none is asserted here; authors should confirm terms directly with the editorial office before submitting, particularly if their funder imposes specific open-access conditions.

Indexing, metrics and reputation

The Journals World record for this post records an h-index of 12 for ISJAEE. That modest figure, set against the journal's own report of thousands of published papers, is itself informative: it points to a large body of specialist, largely Russian-language work that is cited mainly inside its own research community, rather than to a small journal with a few very highly cited papers. The journal's official pages list abstracting and indexing arrangements that include Scopus and Web of Science references in connection with its English-language versions, as explained above, and the journal for many years highlighted the metrics of the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy when presenting its English face. Authors evaluating ISJAEE for a submission should therefore ask a precise question — not simply is this journal indexed, but in which language version, in which database, will my specific article be visible — and get the answer from the editorial office in writing if indexing matters for their institution. That caution is good practice for any journal with a translation-partner model, and it protects authors from a genuine misunderstanding rather than reflecting any special doubt about this title.

Within its niche, the journal's reputation rests on longevity and community centrality rather than on citation glamour: founded in 2000, still identified with its founding editor, organising the conferences of its field, and serving as an official journal for two international associations in its area. For hydrogen-materials researchers in particular, it remains a place where Russian work that might otherwise stay inside domestic proceedings reaches a citable, DOI-bearing journal record.

Who should read and publish here

ISJAEE is best suited to researchers in hydrogen energy and storage materials, solar thermal and photovoltaic engineering, hybrid renewable systems, energy conversion and catalysis, and the environmental assessment of energy technology — especially those who read Russian or who need the Russian literature in those areas. It is a natural home for engineering and physical-science manuscripts with experimental or theoretical substance. It is a poor fit for pure ecology, conservation biology, environmental policy commentary without technical content, and general climate opinion pieces; such manuscripts belong in journals whose scope is built around those subjects. Prospective authors should prepare for a specialist review community, check the journal's published author rules (the official site circulates a publication-rules document), and confirm language, indexing and any charges for their article type before submission.

Disambiguation and related titles

Three confusions recur. First, ISJAEE is not the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy: the latter is an English-language Elsevier journal, and the two are linked by translation exchange and association ties, not identical. Second, ISJAEE is not Solar Energy, the other English partner title named in the journal's own description. Third, the acronym is sometimes expanded with the word International in different positions, and the Russian title is sometimes transliterated differently; the ISSN 1608-8298 resolves all of these variants to this one Sarov journal. When citing, give the ISSN alongside the title variant you found, so later readers can make the same identification.

Frequently asked questions

Is ISJAEE a Russian journal? Yes. It is published from Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia, with ISSN 1608-8298, and publishes in Russian and English.

When was it founded and by whom? In 2000, by the Scientific Technical Centre TATA, with Alexander L. Gusev as founder and editor-in-chief.

Is it only about ecology? No. Its core is alternative and hydrogen energy engineering and physical science; ecology enters mainly as the environmental dimension of energy systems.

Will my paper appear in English? Papers are published in their original language, and selected papers have been translated for the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy or Solar Energy under arrangements described by the journal. Translation is selective, not automatic, so confirm expectations with the editorial office.

What are its charges and licence terms? A single current public statement covering charges and licensing could not be verified for this profile; those terms are stated here as not publicly disclosed in the sources consulted, and authors should confirm them directly before submitting.

Sources and verification

Main sources: the journal's official site at isjaee.com, including its About the Journal and editorial-board pages and its publication-rules document; the editor-in-chief's published curriculum vitae; article-level citation records showing the 10.15518/isjaee DOI pattern; and the Journals World record for post 368421 (ISSN 1608-8298; h-index 12 in directory data). Facts that rest on the journal's own dated pages are dated in the text above.