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(yè)政策》特意強(qiáng)調(diào)國際性、跨學(xué)科和跨部門性。文章探討了發(fā)達(dá)經(jīng)濟(jì)體和發(fā)展中經(jīng)濟(jì)體的公用事業(yè)趨勢和問題。作者和審稿人來自不同學(xué)科，包括經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)、政治學(xué)、社會學(xué)、法律、金融、會計(jì)、管理和工程。重點(diǎn)領(lǐng)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(wù)的公用事業(yè)和網(wǎng)絡(luò)行業(yè)。

《公用事業(yè)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(xué)者以及有成就的從業(yè)者投稿。鼓勵跨學(xué)科、比較和應(yīng)用的作品。投稿給期刊的文章應(yīng)明確關(guān)注公用事業(yè)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(guān)主題和問題包括但不限于行業(yè)結(jié)構(gòu)和所有權(quán)、市場設(shè)計(jì)和動態(tài)、經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展、資源規(guī)劃、系統(tǒng)建模、會計(jì)和財(cái)務(wù)、基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施投資、供需效率、戰(zhàn)略管理和生產(chǎn)力、網(wǎng)絡(luò)運(yùn)營和集成、供應(yīng)鏈、適應(yīng)性和靈活性、服務(wù)質(zhì)量標(biāo)準(zhǔn)、基準(zhǔn)測試和指標(biāo)、成本效益分析、行為和激勵、定價和需求響應(yīng)、經(jīng)濟(jì)和環(huán)境監(jiān)管、監(jiān)管績效和影響、重組和放松管制以及政策機(jī)構(gòu)。

Utilities Policy創(chuàng)刊于1993年，由Elsevier BV出版商出版，收稿方向涵蓋ENERGY & FUELS - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES全領(lǐng)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(yè)認(rèn)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(shù)3.8，該期刊近期沒有被列入國際期刊預(yù)警名單，廣大學(xué)者值得一試。