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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
JIF4
JIF 5-year
JIF 5-year4.3
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CiteScore6.3
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Google h5-index37
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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.

Recent papers

22 Apr 2024
Quantifying the impact of modeling fidelity on different substructure concepts – Part 2: Code-to-code comparison in realistic environmental conditions
Francesco Papi, Giancarlo Troise, Robert Behrens de Luna, Joseph Saverin, Sebastian Perez-Becker, David Marten, Marie-Laure Ducasse, and Alessandro Bianchini
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 981–1004, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-981-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-981-2024, 2024
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22 Apr 2024
Low Uncertainty Wave Tank Testing and Validation of numerical methods for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
Christian W. Schulz, Stefan Netzband, Philipp D. Knipper, and Moustafa Abdel-Maksoud
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-46,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2024-46, 2024
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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18 Apr 2024
Evaluation of wind farm parameterizations in the WRF model under different atmospheric stability conditions with high-resolution wake simulations
Oscar García-Santiago, Andrea N. Hahmann, Jake Badger, and Alfredo Peña
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 963–979, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-963-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-963-2024, 2024
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17 Apr 2024
The near-wake development of a wind turbine operating in stalled conditions – Part 1: Assessment of numerical models
Pascal Weihing, Marion Cormier, Thorsten Lutz, and Ewald Krämer
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 933–962, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-933-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-933-2024, 2024
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15 Apr 2024
Renewable Energy Complementarity (RECom) maps – a comprehensive visualisation tool to support spatial diversification
Til Kristian Vrana and Harald G. Svendsen
Wind Energ. Sci., 9, 919–932, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-919-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-9-919-2024, 2024
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News

22 Apr 2024 Launch of WES outstanding reviewer award

The success of WES relies heavily on the many volunteers who dedicate their time and expertise to ensure the high scientific standards of which our journal is proud and for which it is recognized worldwide. To honor the work of our referees, we have established the "WES outstanding reviewer award". Read more.

22 Apr 2024 Launch of WES outstanding reviewer award

The success of WES relies heavily on the many volunteers who dedicate their time and expertise to ensure the high scientific standards of which our journal is proud and for which it is recognized worldwide. To honor the work of our referees, we have established the "WES outstanding reviewer award". Read more.

19 Apr 2024 New agreement between Swedish Bibsam Consortium and Copernicus Publications

Copernicus Publications is delighted to announce a new agreement with the Swedish National Consortium, Bibsam. Through the agreement, authors affiliated with Bibsam member institutions benefit from the direct settlement of article-processing charges (APCs) in all journals published by Copernicus Publications. Read more.

19 Apr 2024 New agreement between Swedish Bibsam Consortium and Copernicus Publications

Copernicus Publications is delighted to announce a new agreement with the Swedish National Consortium, Bibsam. Through the agreement, authors affiliated with Bibsam member institutions benefit from the direct settlement of article-processing charges (APCs) in all journals published by Copernicus Publications. Read more.

15 Mar 2024 NAWEA/WindTech 2024

Authors of accepted presentations at NAWEA/WindTech 2024 are encouraged to submit their full papers for review and possible publication in WES. Read more.

15 Mar 2024 NAWEA/WindTech 2024

Authors of accepted presentations at NAWEA/WindTech 2024 are encouraged to submit their full papers for review and possible publication in WES. Read more.

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.