Mohsen Saeedi
Abstract
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. We have been started in year 2011and it released its first volume in the same year. Till now, the journal has released 9 volumes by the end of 2019 and is successfully running its 10th Volume and the Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications (ISSN: 2090-4541) is growing continuously. It is our pleasure to announce that during year 2019, all issues of volume 9 were published online on time and the print issues were also brought out and dispatched within 30 days of publishing the issue online. The Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications is well reputed open access Journal that features scientific works of considerable significance and impact in all fields of Renewable Energy research such as: solar energy, wind energy, hydro energy, wave energy, geothermal energy, biomass energy as well as thermal, chemical and nuclear energy. Topics such as biomass harvest, storage, handling, preprocessing and conversion, the impact of global warming on ecosystem and human health, carbon dioxide mitigation, economic and environmental substantially of energy supplies are also covered by the journal. In the same way, the Journal expects to cover all the above classification topics for the year 2020 along with the present research in this field along with the current situation prevailing in globally. All published articles of this journal are included in the indexing and abstracting coverage of CAS Source Index (CASSI), Index Copernicus, Google Scholar, Sherpa Romeo, Academic Journals Database, Genamics JournalSeek, JournalTOCs, CiteFactor, Electronic Journals Library, RefSeek, Hamdard University, EBSCO A-Z, Directory of Abstract Indexing for Journals, World Catalogue of Scientific Journals, OCLC- WorldCat, Scholarsteer, SWB online catalog, Virtual Library of Biology (vifabio), Publons, Dtu findit, Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Studies receiving funding from a funding organization that is included on the list of PMC and Research Funder Policies or authors having NIH grant were submitted to PubMed (NLM Unique ID: 101511907). During the calendar year 2019, Journal of Fundamentals of Renewable Energy and Applications received a total of 36 papers. In the 5 issues of Volume 9 published during the year 2019, a total of 19 articles were published (at an average of 4 articles per issue) of which, articles were published from authors all around the world. A total of 32 research scientists from all over the world reviewed the 19 articles published in volume 9. Average publication period of an article was further reduced to 14-21 days. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the contribution of Editor-in-Chief: Abdel Ghaly (Canada), Gopal Nath Tiwari (India) and Editorial Board members in bringing out issues of JFRA in time. I would also like to express my gratitude to all the authors, reviewers, the publisher, the advisory and the editorial board of JFRA, the office bearers for their support in bringing out yet another volume of JFRA and look forward to their unrelenting support to bring out the Volume 10 of JFRA in scheduled time.