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Important Note to Prospective Authors of the INESS-2026 Special Issue

Dear Authors,

We would like to draw your attention to an important aspect of manuscript submission to the INESS-2026 Special Issue in Energy Storage and Saving, in order to support your submissions.

Please note that all submitted manuscripts undergo an initial editorial screening, during which the journal also evaluates how well the manuscript aligns with the overall aims and scope of the journal. Even if a manuscript is submitted to a Special Issue, it must still satisfy the journal’s general scope requirements. Manuscripts with a low scope-match may be considered out of scope and may not proceed to peer review.

The editorial office has confirmed that several recent submissions were rejected at the initial screening stage because their scope-match with the journal was very low (approximately 10%), despite being submitted to the INESS-2026 Special Issue.

To avoid these problems, we strongly encourage authors to carefully review the journal’s aims and scope before submission. ENSS publishes original research articles and reviews that advance energy storage, energy saving, sustainable energy utilization, energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and pollution reduction. Topics of particular interest include:

• Energy storage systems (thermal, chemical, biological, cryogenic, and magnetic)
• Batteries, hydrogen, fuel cells, and electrochemical energy storage
• Energy-saving technologies, smart energy, and intelligent energy management
• Energy efficiency improvement and pollutant emission reduction
• Environmental impact and sustainable development
• Energy security
• Life cycle assessment
• Economics and business models related to energy

If your research is interdisciplinary, please ensure that the manuscript clearly demonstrates its contribution to one or more of these areas. The title, abstract, keywords, introduction, and conclusions should explicitly highlight the relevance of your work to energy storage and/or energy saving.

Authors whose work primarily focuses on materials, sensors, catalysts, or other technologies should clearly establish their significance in the context of energy storage, energy efficiency, or sustainable energy systems. Manuscripts that do not sufficiently demonstrate this connection may be declined during the initial editorial assessment.

We appreciate your understanding and look forward to receiving high-quality submissions that closely align with the scope of the Energy Storage and Saving journal.

All submissions are free of charge. This is a valuable opportunity to publish in a high-quality Scopus-indexed journal ranked Q1 (95th percentile).

Acknowledgement Requirement

Authors submitting full manuscripts based on their INESS-2026 conference materials are kindly requested to include the following statement in the Acknowledgements section:

“The authors acknowledge the support from the INESS-2026 Organizing Committee and the NU Impact Foundation of Nazarbayev University.”