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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
JIF4.9
JIF 5-year
JIF 5-year4.8
CiteScore
CiteScore7.5
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

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

03 Dec 2025 New MS Word template available for manuscript preparation

The existing MS Word template for authors has been significantly expanded and now includes many important notes on the standard sections that must be included in the manuscript. Please visit the "Submission" page, section "Templates for your manuscript file" and download the new template before writing your next manuscript.

28 May 2025 New co-review option in WES

WES now offers a co-review option for referees. Please read more.

28 May 2025 New co-review option in WES

WES now offers a co-review option for referees. Please read more.

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.

Recent papers

05 Dec 2025
Data-driven probabilistic surrogate model for floating wind turbine lifetime damage equivalent load prediction
Deepali Singh, Erik Haugen, Kasper Laugesen, Richard P. Dwight, and Axelle Viré
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 2865–2888, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-2865-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-2865-2025, 2025
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04 Dec 2025
Non-destructive sub-surface inspection of multi-layer wind turbine blade coatings by mid-infrared Optical Coherence Tomography
Coraline Lapre, Christian Rosenberg Petersen, Per Nielsen, Thomas Wulf, Jakob Ilsted Bech, Søren Fæster, Ole Bang, and Niels Møller Israelsen
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-237,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-237, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Dec 2025
Dynamics of floating wind turbine wakes in a wind tunnel setup
Ricardo Amaral, Felix Houtin-Mongrolle, Dominic von Terzi, Kasper Laugesen, Paul Deglaire, and Axelle Viré
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-264,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-264, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Dec 2025
Spatial and Economic Prioritization for Distributed Wind
Sara S. Abril Guevara, Paula Pérez, Slater Podgorny, Paul Crook, Jane Lockshin, and Caleb Phillips
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-213,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-213, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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04 Dec 2025
Graph Neural Operator for windfarm wake flow
Jens Peter Schøler, Frederik Peder Weilmann Rasmussen, Julian Quick, and Pierre-Eloaun Réthoré
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-261,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-261, 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.