Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

**Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development (RESD)** is a biannual, peer-reviewed international journal that offers a global platform for the dissemination of cutting-edge research, case studies, and reviews focusing on renewable energy and its role in promoting sustainable development. Indexed in **Scopus** since 2021, RESD is committed to advancing knowledge and fostering innovation in the rapidly evolving fields of energy and sustainability.

The journal serves as a crucial resource for researchers, scientists, engineers, policymakers, and institutions worldwide, keeping them informed on the latest theoretical and practical advancements in renewable energy technologies. RESD welcomes experimental, computational, and theoretical studies across a broad spectrum of renewable energy topics, including but not limited to: - Wind energy; - Solar power; - Wave and tidal energy; - Hydropower; - Geothermal energy; - Hydrogen and fuel cells; - Energy from biomass and biofuels; - Energy savings and efficiency.

A focal point of RESD is the integration of renewable energy technologies into electrical power networks and smart grids. The journal also places significant emphasis on sustainable development, a multidisciplinary field that addresses how energy technologies can align with the UN Millennium Development Goals and ongoing efforts to achieve sustainable economic and social growth, particularly in transition economies.

In addition to its focus on innovative research, RESD encourages the submission of case studies that explore the nexus of renewable energy and sustainable development. As an open-access journal, RESD is published under a liberal **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License**, ensuring that authors retain copyright while enabling broad dissemination of their work.

Supported by the **Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT)**, RESD is committed to maintaining high-quality, open-access publications. Starting January 2024, **Article Processing Charges (APCs)** will be introduced: 10,000 L.E. for Egyptian authors and 100 USD for international authors.

RESD’s esteemed editorial and advisory boards consist of leading scientists and engineers who contribute their vast expertise in renewable energy and sustainability, enriching the journal’s content and its relevance to the global research community.

 

Section Policies

Editorials

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed

Articles

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Checked Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Checked Open Submissions Checked Indexed Unchecked Peer Reviewed
 

Peer Review Process

Peer review is an essential and impartial process that ensures the quality of scholarly publishing. Like all reputable scientific journals, Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development (RESD) relies on peer review to uphold its high standards. Below is an overview of the peer review and publishing process at RESD.

The entire process, from initial submission to publication, typically takes about two months: one month for the review phase and another for the publication stage.

1. Initial Review
The editor first assesses all submitted manuscripts. In rare cases, exceptional manuscripts may be accepted at this stage. However, those lacking originality, containing significant scientific flaws, having poor grammar, or falling outside the journal’s scope are rejected. Manuscripts that meet the journal’s criteria are forwarded to at least two expert reviewers. Authors usually receive notification of rejection within two to three weeks.

2. Peer Review type
RESD uses a single-blind review process, where the referees are aware of the authors' identities, but the authors do not know the referees' identities.

3. Selection of Referees
Referees are chosen based on their expertise in the subject matter of the manuscript. The journal’s referee database is regularly updated, and it ensures that referees are not from the same country as the submitting author. While authors may suggest referees, the journal reserves the right to use or disregard these recommendations. Each manuscript is reviewed by two referees.

4. Peer-review Reports
Referees assess manuscripts based on key criteria related to scientific content, quality, and presentation:

  • Technical: Scientific rigor, accuracy, clarity of expression, and proper referencing.
  • Quality: Originality, relevance, motivation for the research, and whether the work justifies its length.
  • Presentation: Appropriate title, clear and informative abstract, high-quality figures and tables, and a well-written conclusion.

Referees are not required to correct language issues or perform copyediting.

5. Review Timeline
The review process generally takes about one month. If referee reports conflict or there are delays, a third opinion may be sought. Revised manuscripts are typically sent back to the original referees within one week, and multiple rounds of revision may be requested.

6. Editorial Decisions
After peer review, the editor-in-chief, with input from the associate editor, evaluates the referees' feedback and makes one of the following decisions:

  • Accept
  • Accept with minor revisions
  • Reject and resubmit (major revisions needed)
  • Reject

7. Final Decision
The final decision, along with the referees' comments and recommendations, is sent to the author. This report may include direct feedback from the referees.

8. Special Issues and Conference Proceedings Policy
Special issues and conference proceedings may follow a different peer review process, often involving guest editors or scientific committees. Authors contributing to these projects can request detailed information about the review process from the editorial office.

 

 

 

Publication Frequency

This journal is published 2 times per year.

Each one volume per year has two issues, namley, one in June and one in December of each year.

Special issue could be issued separately sometime between the regular issues. This will be announced before publishing the special issue.

 

Open Access Policy

RSED journal provides immediate open access to all content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. RSED grants usage rights to others using the open license CC-BY-NC allowing for immediate free access to the work and permitting any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose.

 

Publishing Ethics

RESD Statement on Publication Ethics

RESD is committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices. 

RESD adheres to follow the Committee on Publication Ethics “COPE” Code of Conduct for Journal Editors. 

RESD would like to refer reviewers to the Committee on Publication Ethics “COPE” Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers

RESD would also encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics "COPE" website. 

The essentials of RESD’s publishing ethics for all groups involved in the publishing process are as follows:

 

Ethics guidelines for editors

  • The editors have to declare that by joining the editorial board there is no conflict of interest with any other institutes or journals.
  • The editors should maintain the transparency of the academic research & record, preclude professional needs from cooperating ethical standards, and always be willing to publish retractions, rectifications, and erratum when required. 
  • The editors should attempt to ensure timely peer review and publication process and should avoid unnecessary delays. 
  • The editors and other editorial board members should not be involved in editorial decisions on their own submitted work. They should be excluded from publication decisions when they are authors or even have contributed to a manuscript. 
  • The editors should give peer reviewers explicit guidance on their role and responsibilities and monitor their performances for quality and timeliness. 
  • The editor should ensure confidential handling of the submitted manuscripts and not disclose any information on submitted manuscripts before their publication.
  • The editors should assess manuscripts for their scientific quality content, in an unbiased manner and free from any decisions based on discrimination of race, gender, geographical origin, or religion of the author(s). The editor should evaluate manuscripts regarding to their academic merit free of any self-interests. 
  • Promoting research rectitude must be preserved. If at any stage the publisher suspects any kind of misconduct in research, it should be investigated promptly in detail with suitable authority; and if any suspicious act of misconduct is observed in the peer review, it should be resolved with diligence. 

Ethics guidelines for reviewers

  • Peer reviewers should provide a detailed, constructive, comprehensive, evidenced, and unbiased evaluation in a timely manner on the scientific content of the submitted work. They should judge each manuscript on its merits, without regard to race, religion, nationality, sex, seniority, academic degree or institutional affiliation of the author(s). 
  • Peer reviewers should play an important role in identifying any ethical concerns or misconduct in their evaluation of submitted manuscripts; such as possible data fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, image manipulation, any violation of ethical treatment of animal or human subjects, unethical research, redundant or duplicate publication, conflict of interests and notify the journal editor as the possibility of such problems exists. 
  • Peer reviewers should notify the journal editor about any financial or personal conflict of interest and declining to review the manuscript when a possibility of such a conflict exists. 
  • Peer reviewers have to declare any conflict of interest with any other institutes or journals.
  • Peer reviewers should respect the confidentiality of the complete review process. 
  • Peer reviewers should indicate whether the writing is relevant, concise & clear and evaluating the originality and scientific accuracy.
  • Peer reviewers must avoid making statements in their report which might affect any person’s reputation. 
  • Peer reviewers are required to only agree to peer review manuscripts within their expertise and within a reasonable timeframe. 
  • Peer reviewers should notify the journal editor in the case of declining the review in any case. 
  • Peer reviewers are required to destroy submitted manuscripts and all related material after they have reviewed them.

Ethics guidelines for authors 

  • Authors should make publicly available all the results of their research and are accountable for the completeness and accuracy of their reports. 
  • Author(s) should warrant that the submitted manuscript is from their own original work, which does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and it is free from any kind of plagiarism including their own previously published work. 
  • All authors named on the paper are equally held accountable for the content of a submitted manuscript or published paper although having different contributions. 
  • The work should not have been published elsewhere or submitted to any other journal(s) at the same time. 
  • Author(s) must clearly declare any potential conflict of interest. 
  • Author(s) must disclose all sources of funding for the research reported in the paper. 
  • If asked to provide a list of suggested reviewers, author(s) must provide the correct details for suitable reviewers with the appropriate experience to review, ensuring that the suggested reviewers do not have a conflict of interest.
  • Proper acknowledgements to other work reported (individual/company/institution) must be given. Permission must be obtained from any content used from other sources.

Post-publication discussions policy

  • RESD accepts any comment, and critiques from the readers by sending an email to the editor-in-chief.
  • Editorial team of each journal is committed to collect all comments and criticisms related to each article and send to the author.
  • Authors are committed to response the readers within 4 weeks.

Retraction policy

Articles can be retracted in the following cases:

  • A certain plagiarism is detected.
  • It reports unethical research
  • There’s clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of major error (eg, miscalculation or experimental error), or as a result of fabrication (eg, of data) or falsification (eg, image manipulation)
  • The findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper attribution to previous sources or disclosure to the editor, permission to republish, or justification (ie, cases of redundant publication)
  • It contains material or data without authorization for use
  • Copyright has been infringed or there is some other serious legal issue (eg, libel, privacy)
  • The author(s) failed to disclose a major competing interest (a.k.a. conflict of interest) that, in the view of the editor, would have unduly affected interpretations of the work or recommendations by editors and peer reviewers.

Complaints and appeals policy

  • RESD welcomes any complaints against itself as a journal, members of the editorial boards, and staff of RESD or any journal published by APC.
  • Any complaints from any parties can be composed directly to Prof. Dr. Yasser Gaber (ygd@aast.edu) the Dean of research, and manager of Academy Publishing Centre (APC)
  • RESD is committed to deal with any complaints or appeals seriously, and give a response within two weeks of the receipt.

Research misconduct policy

RESD allows reporting of research misconduct a published article or a manuscript under peer-review process. The following procedures can be followed for complaints of author misconduct:

  1. The editorial board of each journal receives a complaint that an article submitted to or published in the journal is suspected of containing research misconduct.
  2. The complainant needs to indicate clearly and directly the specific manner and details of misconduct
  3. The editorial board will conduct an investigation, during which time the editor of the journal and the corresponding author(s) of the suspected article will be in contact.
  4. The corresponding author(s) will be asked to provide an interpretations and any available evidence.
  5. If the author(s) of the suspected article accepts the misconduct complaint, the editorial board will take an action depending on the status of the article:
    1. If the article has been published, retraction may be necessary to remedy the situation.
    2. If the misconduct is reported during the review process, the review process may continue, with the author(s) making the relevant changes.
    3. If there’s no response from the author (s) or an unsatisfactory explanation, the article may be permanently retracted or rejected.
  6. The complainant will be informed of the outcome once the issue is resolved. 

RESD Advertising policy

RESD does not accept advertising and sponsorship for its website and social media accounts.

AI tools as author

RESD is committed to COPE, WAME and the JAMA Network declaration to state that AI tools cannot be listed as an author of a paper. AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work.

Authors who submitted articles for publishing in APC’s journals are committed to the following:

  1. Any article submitted to RESD that includes ChatGPT or any other AI tools as a co-author will be rejected immediately.
  2. If the submitted article included a citation to a document that was authored by ChatGPT or any other AI tools as a co-author will be rejected immediately.

 

Digital Object Identifier, DOI of the RESD

Digital Object Identifier

The RESD is supported by Digital Object Identifier, DOI for each article from Cross Ref as listed in HERE.

Starting from January 2024, the journals applied a new format of DOI:

10.21622/RESD.YYYY.VV.I.AAA

Where

10.21622       = Journal Identifier

RESD           = Journal name

YYYY            = Four digits for the year

VV               = Two digits for the Volume Number 

I                 = One digit for the Issue Number

AAA              = Three digits for the article ID

To look for the paper on line, search for this link

https://dx.doi.org/10.21622/RESD.YYYY.VV.I.AAA

 

The old format (2015-2023)

The Code of the DOI of each article consists of the following format:

10.21622/RESD.YYYY.VV.I.PPP

Where

10.21622       = Journal Identifier

RESD           = Journal name

YYYY            = Four digits for the year

VV               = Two digits for the Volume Number 

I                 = One digit for the Issue Number

PPP              = Three digits for the Number of the first page of the article

 

To look for the paper on line, search for this link

https://dx.doi.org/10.21622/RESD.YYYY.VV.I.PPP

 

Articles Publishing Charges (APCs)

As of January 2024 RESD applies the following APCs:

- 10.000 L.E. for the Egyptian authors.

- 100 USD for foreign authors.

 

Payment method

US dollar bank account

- Beneficary name: Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

- Beneficary address: P.O. Box 1029, Miami, Alexandria, Egypt

- Bank name: Commercial International Bank (CIB), Smouha Branch, Alexandria, Egypt

- Bank address: 98 Fawzy Mouaz st., Lutos building, Smouha, Alexandria, Egypt.

- Account number: 100012751178

- IBAN: EG260010003400000100012751178

- Swift code: CIBEEGCX034

Notes:

Please add the following reference to the transfer: APC RESD Journal

Please send us the proof of payment to: ygd@aast.edu

 

Euro bank account

- Beneficary name: Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

- Beneficary address: P.O. Box 1029, Miami, Alexandria, Egypt

- Bank name: Commercial International Bank (CIB), Smouha Branch, Alexandria, Egypt

- Bank address: 98 Fawzy Mouaz st., Lutos building, Smouha, Alexandria, Egypt.

- Account number: 100019378165

- IBAN: EG020010003400000100019378165

- Swift code: CIBEEGCX034

Notes:

Please add the following reference to the transfer: APC RESD Journal

Please send us the proof of payment to: ygd@aast.edu

 

Egyptian pound bank account

- Beneficary name: Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport

- Beneficary address: P.O. Box 1029, Miami, Alexandria, Egypt

- Bank name: Commercial International Bank (CIB), Smouha Branch, Alexandria, Egypt

- Bank address: 98 Fawzy Mouaz st., Lutos building, Smouha, Alexandria, Egypt.

- Account number: 100005844139

- IBAN: EG130010003400000100005844139

- Swift code: CIBEEGCX034

Notes:

Please add the following reference to the transfer: APC RESD Journal

Please send us the proof of payment to: ygd@aast.edu