Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement:
1.General Rule
These rules provide the matters concerning the publication ethics andmalpractice statement of the Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy(hereinafter referred to as “JIE Journal”).
2. Editorial BoardJIE Journal has the editorial board whose members are recognized experts
in energy related field. The full names and affiliations of the members areprovided on JIE Journal’s Web site.
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie/_pubinfo/-char/en
The above Web site also provides the contact information for the editorialoffice.
3. Authors and Authors responsibilities
Prior to preparing the manuscript for submission, authors shall confirm thefees that are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials inJIE Journal.
URL: https://www.jie.or.jp/publics/index/718/
Authors are obliged to participate in peer-review process.
All authors significantly have to contribute to the research.
All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
All authors shall indicate the list of references, financial support.
All authors shall be prohibited from publishing same research in more than
one journal.
4. Peer-review process
All of JIE Journal’s content shall be taken peer-review.
Peer-review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from thereviewers who have the expertise in energy related field.
Peer-reviewers are selected by our editorial board.
After peer-reviewing by peer-reviewers, the types of articles shall be classified
into the following type described in the Web site below;
Review, Original Paper, Technical Paper, Short Paper and Technical Report
URL: https://www.jie.or.jp/publics/index/718/
Reviewers should have no conflict of interest.
Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.
5. Publication ethics
Publishers and editors shall pay attention to identify and prevent thepublication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
In the event that JIE Journal’s publisher or editors are made aware of any
allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editor shall deal withallegations appropriately.
The author shall submit his/her article in accordance with the “Guide forwriting and contributing articles to the Journal”. Based on the opinion sheet ofthe referee selected by the editorial members, the author shall correct themanuscript as necessary. Whether or not to publish the submitted final

manuscript shall be decided by the editorial members based on the opinion
sheet of the referee.
Publishers and editors should always be willing to publish corrections,clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
6. Copyright and Access
The copyright of articles published in JIE Journal shall belong to the Japan
Institute of Energy (hereinafter referred to as “JIE”)..
URL: https://www.jie.or.jp/publics/index/718/
JIE Journal and its individual articles are available to readers by accessing
the Web site below;
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie/-char/en
7. Archiving
JIE Journal was previously published named as “Nenryo Kyoukai shi”. Thisjournal can be accessed in the electronic journal publishing of Japan Scienceand Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE).
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie1922/-char/ja
8. Ownership and management
Not only JIE members but non-JIE members as well can access JIE Journal
and its article through JIE Journal’s Web site.
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie/-char/en
The management of JIE Journal concerning the publication and the Web site
is implemented by production department and/or secretariat of JIE.
9. Web siteJIE Journal is published in the electronic journal publishing of J-STAGE.
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie/-char/en
Full text of the contributed articles is published in J-STAGE and theirsummaries are also published in “Nihon Enerugii Gakkai Kikanshi / Enermix”.
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie/-char/en
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jieenermix/-char/en
10. Publishing schedule
JIE Journal is published periodically every month on the J-Stage Web site.
URL: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/jie/-char/en
11. Name of journal
The Journal name “the Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy” is uniqueand not be one that is easily confused with another journal or that might
mislead potential authors and readers about the Journal’s origin orassociation with other journals.