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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

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.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

05 Feb 2025 Copernicus Publications and all journals left Twitter

The Copernicus Twitter account as well as all Twitter accounts of journals published by us have been deactivated. There will be no automatic feeds of newly posted preprints or published journal articles anymore, we do not actively tweet, and the status informs that the accounts are no longer maintained. Twitter is no longer linked from the journal websites or in the share section of the preprint or journal article HTML pages.

Recent papers

17 Jun 2025
Hollow Forged AHD Steel Rotor Shafts for Wind Turbines – A Case Study on Power Density, Costs and GWP
Christian Hollas, Georg Jacobs, Vitali Züch, Julian Röder, Moritz Gouverneur, Niklas Reinisch, David Bailly, and Alexander Gramlich
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-94,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-94, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Jun 2025
The influence of wind veer on fatigue loading for large floating wind turbines with flexible drivetrains
Veronica Liverud Krathe, Jason Jonkman, and Erin Elizabeth Bachynski-Polić
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-92,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-92, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Jun 2025
A wind turbine digital shadow for complex inflow conditions
Hadi Hoghooghi and Carlo L. Bottasso
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-98,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-98, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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17 Jun 2025
Kriging meta-models for damage equivalent load assessment of idling offshore wind turbines
Franziska Schmidt, Clemens Hübler, and Raimund Rolfes
Wind Energ. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-83,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-2025-83, 2025
Preprint under review for WES (discussion: open, 0 comments)
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13 Jun 2025
Estimating microplastic emissions from offshore wind turbine blades in the Dutch North Sea
Marco Caboni, Anna Elisa Schwarz, Henk Slot, and Harald van der Mijle Meijer
Wind Energ. Sci., 10, 1123–1136, https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1123-2025,https://doi.org/10.5194/wes-10-1123-2025, 2025
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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.