In September 2026, Distributed Energy was officially indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), the most influential open-access journal directory worldwide. Following its inclusion in the EuroPub database earlier this year, this marks another significant international platform for the journal's global outreach. This achievement signifies that Distributed Energy has reached a high standard in academic guidelines and publishing criteria, earning widespread recognition from the international academic community and taking the journal's high-quality development to a new level.

Here is the link to the journal's homepage in the DOAJ database: https://doaj.org/toc/2096-2185

The thriving development of our journal would not be possible without the meticulous guidance of our Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board, as well as the tremendous support from our authors, expert reviewers, and readers. We would like to express our most sincere gratitude to all of you!

The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is one of the world's five major literature indexing systems, alongside SCI, EI, Scopus, and PubMed. It is currently the largest open-access journal database globally. Established by Lund University in Sweden in 2003, DOAJ is dedicated to indexing high-quality, open-access (OA) academic journals, providing global researchers with abundant academic resources and convenient search services.

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