WES cover
Editor-in-chief: Carlo L. Bottasso
Chief editors: Sandrine Aubrun, Nicolaos A. Cutululis, Paul Fleming, Julia Gottschall, Athanasios Kolios, Jakob Mann & Paul Veers
eISSN: WES 2366-7451, WESD 2366-7621

Wind Energy Science is an international scientific journal dedicated to the publication and public discussion of studies that take an interdisciplinary perspective of fundamental or pioneering research in wind energy.

JIF
JIF3.6
JIF 5-year
JIF 5-year3.7
CiteScore
CiteScore6.9
Google h5-index
Google h5-index37
Get engaged in the public peer review!

Follow the discussions on newly posted manuscripts and take part by commenting on WES preprints! Wind Energy Science has an innovative two-stage publication process involving the scientific discussion forum Wind Energy Science Discussions (WESD), which has been designed to maximize the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance and foster scientific discourse.

News

06 Mar 2025 Get involved, become a referee, and help shape WES' community publication output

We are pleased to announce that a new referee application form is now available. This means that if you are interested in contributing to the peer-review process and supporting high-quality scientific publishing in your community then you can apply today to become a referee. Your expertise can make a difference. Visit the online form here to learn more and join our reviewer community.

06 Mar 2025 Get involved, become a referee, and help shape WES' community publication output

We are pleased to announce that a new referee application form is now available. This means that if you are interested in contributing to the peer-review process and supporting high-quality scientific publishing in your community then you can apply today to become a referee. Your expertise can make a difference. Visit the online form here to learn more and join our reviewer community.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

12 Sep 2024 WES now at ResearchGate

Copernicus is pleased to announce a new collaboration with ResearchGate in the framework of ResearchGate's Journal Home programme. Please read Copernicus' official announcement and have a look at WES' profile page for more details.

12 Sep 2024 WES now at ResearchGate

Copernicus is pleased to announce a new collaboration with ResearchGate in the framework of ResearchGate's Journal Home programme. Please read Copernicus' official announcement and have a look at WES' profile page for more details.

Recent papers

10 Mar 2025
PLL-Reinforced Damping for Interoperability Enhancement of Independently Designed Grid-Forming Wind Turbines in Weak Grids
Sulav Ghimire, Gabriele Amico, Kanakesh VattaKkuni, Kim H. Jensen, and Guangya Yang
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-18,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-18, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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07 Mar 2025
A machine-learning-based approach for active monitoring of blade pitch misalignment in wind turbines
Sabrina Milani, Jessica Leoni, Stefano Cacciola, Alessandro Croce, and Mara Tanelli
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 497–510, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-497-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-497-2025, 2025
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06 Mar 2025
Upwind vs downwind: Loads and acoustics of a 1.5 MW wind turbine
Pietro Bortolotti, Lee Jay Fingersh, Nicholas Hamilton, Arlinda Huskey, Chris Ivanov, Mark Iverson, Jonathan Keller, Scott Lambert, Jason Roadman, Derek Slaughter, Syhoune Thao, and Consuelo Wells
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-8,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-8, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Mar 2025
Evaluation of a High-Resolution Regional Climate Simulation for Surface and Hub-height Wind Climatology over North America
Kyle Peco, Jiali Wang, Chunyong Jung, Gökhan Sever, Lindsay Sheridan, Jeremy Feinstein, Rao Kotamarthi, Caroline Draxl, Ethan Young, Avi Purkayastha, and Andrew Kumler
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-13,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-13, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Mar 2025
Disentangling wake and projection effects in the aerodynamics of wind turbines with curved blades
Ang Li, Mac Gaunaa, Georg Raimund Pirrung, and Kenneth Lønbæk
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-30,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-30, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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Notice on the current situation in Ukraine

To show our support for Ukraine, all fees for papers from authors (first or corresponding authors) affiliated to Ukrainian institutions are automatically waived, regardless if these papers are co-authored by scientists affiliated to Russian and/or Belarusian institutions. The only exception will be if the corresponding author or first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) are from a Russian and/or Belarusian institution, in that case the APCs are not waived.

In accordance with current European restrictions, Copernicus Publications does not step into business relations with and issue APC-invoices (articles processing charges) to Russian and Belarusian institutions. The peer-review process and scientific exchange of our journals including preprint posting is not affected. However, these restrictions require that the first contact (contractual partner of Copernicus) has an affiliation and invoice address outside Russia or Belarus.