Description
The SAE International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Energy, Environment, and Policy is accepting applications for the position of reviewer for the following topics:
Sustainable Transportation
- Sustainable transportation and subsystems efficiency
- Auto-associated infrastructure (built)
- Traditional and emerging vehicles
Sustainable Environment
- Built environment
- Lifecycle assessment
- Lifecycle cost modeling, assessment, and analysis
- Carbon and water footprint
- Eco-labels
Sustainable Energy
- Renewable energy: resources, storage, conversion, transmission
- Sustainable engineering
- Sustainable manufacturing
- Sustainable and advanced materials
- Efficiency enhancing mechanisms:optimization, combustion, lightweighting
Policy
- Public policy
- Transportation policies
- Energy policies
- Social perspectives
- Economic perspectives
Duties
- Read the manuscript thoroughly.
- Make comments and critiques about the research. Reviews without comments are unacceptable.
- Make suggestions for improvement.
- Submit the review with a rating in the areas requested in the system and a recommendation for rejection, revision, or acceptance.
Qualifications
Requirements
Becoming a reviewer requires proficient knowledge in the subject area and the ability to provide constructive criticism to the author and editors. SAE does require previous experience as a peer reviewer or completion of the Publons Academy training course or another appropriate training course. The most important requirement for being a reviewer is that you can devote enough time to give a professional and useful review within the time frame given, usually within one month maximum from the date of accepting the review assignment.