About Journal

  • Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage (HFE) is a research quarterly in H2 and fuel cell fields. HFE publication authorization is certified by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance; No.93/5898; 2 June 2014. HFE journal has been approved by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology as a scientific research journal; No. 3/18/19086; 27 April 2015.
  • Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage (HFE) is a double-blind peer-reviewed publication concerned with appropriate aspects H2 and fuel cell fields.
  • Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage (HFE) is an open-access quarterly journal, which publishes original research and reviews on topics related to journal aims and scope (See journal scope).

Financial Policies

Revenue Sources and Article Processing Charges

There is no charge to submit process, publish and access the research articles. The cost involved in the publication of articles in HFE is provided by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST).

 
Subscription Fee

HFE is published as an open-access electronic journal, so there is no subscription fee for audiences.


Journal Policies

Open Access Policies

Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage (HFE) is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Licensees may copy, distribute, display and make derivative works only if they cite the original published article.

 

 
Ethical Policies

Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage (HFE) is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws.

 
Copyright owner / Copyright holder

In this journal, authors do not retain unrestricted copyrights and publishing rights.  

 

The Policy of Screening for Plagiarism

Plagiarism is intentionally using someone else’s ideas or other original material as if they are one's own. Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript, or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation is considered by HFE Journals as plagiarism. All manuscripts under review or published with HFE are subject to screening using plagiarism-prevention software. Thus, plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. All submitted manuscripts are checked for similarity through iThenticate software to ensure their authenticity and originality and then rigorously peer-reviewed by expert reviewers. 

 
Publishing schedule

Hydrogen, Fuel Cell & Energy Storage is published 4 issues per year (Quarterly). All the content from the beginning to the end will be available forever on the journal website (https://hfe.irost.ir/)

 


Journal Ownership and Publisher

Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST)


 

Some of the journal benefits:
  • ISC citation index
  • Open access with no charge
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    • View Per Article: more than 1800 times
    • Download per Article: more than 1300 times
    • Zero charges to submit, publish and access the research articles
  • Short reviewing and responding process:
    • Time to First Decision: 1.4 weeks
    • Review Time: 3.5 weeks
    • Sending a certificate of acceptance: 1 week
  • A distinguished editorial board with extensive academic qualifications 
    • Maintains high scientific standards
    • Broad international coverage