Utilities Policy

Journal Title：Utilities Policy

Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services.

Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.

《公用事業政策》特意強調國際性、跨學科和跨部門性。文章探討了發達經濟體和發展中經濟體的公用事業趨勢和問題。作者和審稿人來自不同學科，包括經濟學、政治學、社會學、法律、金融、會計、管理和工程。重點領域包括提供基本電力、天然氣、水和廢水、固體廢物、通信、寬帶、郵政和公共交通服務的公用事業和網絡行業。

《公用事業政策》歡迎采用各種定量和定性方法的投稿。歡迎成熟和新興學者以及有成就的從業者投稿。鼓勵跨學科、比較和應用的作品。投稿給期刊的文章應明確關注公用事業的治理、績效和/或分析，旨在為政策制定過程提供信息并酌情提供建議。相關主題和問題包括但不限于行業結構和所有權、市場設計和動態、經濟發展、資源規劃、系統建模、會計和財務、基礎設施投資、供需效率、戰略管理和生產力、網絡運營和集成、供應鏈、適應性和靈活性、服務質量標準、基準測試和指標、成本效益分析、行為和激勵、定價和需求響應、經濟和環境監管、監管績效和影響、重組和放松管制以及政策機構。

Utilities Policy創刊于1993年，由Elsevier BV出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋ENERGY & FUELS - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES全領域，此刊是中等級別的SCI期刊，所以過審相對來講不是特別難，但是該刊專業認可度不錯，仍然是一本值得選擇的SCI期刊 。平均審稿速度 12周，或約稿 ，影響因子指數3.8，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預警名單，廣大學者值得一試。