About the Journal

From June 2024 the journal has its first, inaugural Impact Factor of 0.7.



From 2nd of December 2021 Power Electronics and Drives is listed on the Ministry's list of scientific journals. The journal is evaluated for 20 points.
(https://www.gov.pl/web/edukacja-i-nauka/komunikat-ministra-edukacji-i-nauki-z-dnia-1-grudnia-2021-r-w-sprawie-wykazu-czasopism-naukowych-i-recenzowanych-materialow-z-konferencji-miedzynarodowych)

Power Electronics and Drives (PEAD) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish original scientific papers (research and survey papers) on new theoretical developments, novel applications, and case studies regarding advances in power electronics and electrical drive systems. Articles published in our journal cover full scope of power electronics and its applications in electrical drives, renewable energy systems and mechatronic systems. The published articles deal with the following subjects:

• power electronic converters;
• intelligent control in power electronics and drives;
• state variable estimation for AC and DC drives;
• diagnostics in power electronics and drive systems
• fault-tolerant control strategies in power electronic converters and drives;
• industrial drives, renewable energy systems and smart grid technologies;
• power consumption and energy efficiency of converter-fed drives
• electrical machines modeling, simulations and analysis;
• motion control, mechatronics;
• education issues in power electronics and drives;
• other related topics.

The journal is an annual and is published in the open volume system. The basic version of the journal is the electronic version (eISSN: 2543-4292). All manuscripts are checked with iThenticate anti-plagiarism software. Publication of articles until the end of 2023 is free of charge. From 2024, all articles are subject to payment and the costs are described in the Article Processing Charges (APC) tab.

Power Electronics and Drives is specially oriented to young scientists, PhD students and young Doctors, who can publish (quickly and without any charge) their research results and extended summaries of their PhD dissertations (in this last case the number of pages should be consulted with the Editor-in-Chief).
The journal observes a code of ethics based on academic standards (see for details at the journal web site).
The full texts of articles are freely available from the Power Electronics and Drives web site according to Creative Commons Licence (CC BY-NC-ND) and, since 2018, through the DOAJ database serving the best interests of the scientific community.
Power Electronics and Drives (PEAD) has been published under this title since 2016. It continues the tradition of the journal entitled Scientific Papers of the Institute of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements of the Wroclaw University of Technology. Studies and Research, which has been published regularly since 2003 (occasionally from 1969), mainly in Polish. Since 2016 all papers in the whole journal has been published in English.
The journal is published and financed by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Department of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements at the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. Since 2019 the journal is published under the patronage of the Electrical Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Indexing

Power Electronics and Drives is indexed by:

Web of Sciences - Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
ERIH PLUS
EBSCO Discovery Service
WorldCat® - scientific sources database (OCLC)
PBN - Polska Bibliografia Naukowa (Polish Scientific References)
BazTech
Index Copernicus
Google Scholar
Baidu Scholar
ROAD
CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
ProQuest (relevant databases)

and many others:
(Full list of PEAD indexing bases)

Peer Review Process and Publication Ethics

For all parties involved in the act of publishing (the author, the journal editor(s), the peer reviewer and the publisher) it is necessary to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior. The ethics statements for the Power Electronics and Drives are based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Power Electronics and Drives journal uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The details on the Reviewing procedure and Publication ethics are given on these websites:
(More information about Reviewing Procedure)
(More information about Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement)

Article processing charges (APCs)

Article processing charges for Open Access (since September 1, 2024):

Article Processing Charge for OA:

for Europe and for other countries - 450 Euro (with 23% VAT if paid by private person)

for Europe and for other countries - 365,85 Euro (no VAT if paid by institution)

for Poland – 2000 PLN (VAT included)

The fee for publishing an article covers up to 15 pages in PDF format of the journal template.
If the article extends beyond 15 pages, the journal will charge an additional 30 Euro for each extra page.

More informations about APC: APC

Plagiarism and Archiving Policy

The editorial board is participating in a community of Prevent Plagiarism in Published Works - iThenticate to ensure that the content published is original and trustworthy.
iThenticate is a medium that allows for comprehensive manuscripts screening, aimed to eliminate plagiarism and provide a high standard and quality peer-review process.
To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not show their identity.
The obvious is to remove names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript.
In the first version of the paper, the field with authors information must be empty.

In the final version of the paper, changes suggested by the reviewers (and Editors) must be marked by other colour.

In case of plagiarism or allegation of research misconduct the paper will not be published until the authors will refer to the doubts.

Open Access Statement

The electronic version (e-ISSN: 2543-4292) of the journal PEAD is its reference. All papers, published in Power Electronics and Drives, are made available for educational purposes in electronic form on the journal web page or Sciendo web page in the Open Access formula, licenced under the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY 4.0 (until 2023 under CC BY-NC-ND license).

The authors are asked to submit a completed License to publish:

DGO Open Access License_4.0_PEAD_2024.pdf

Submission Guidelines for the PEAD

Authors must submit manuscripts electronically to the (PEAD editorial system).
All manuscripts should be prepared in an electronic format ('doc', 'docx', 'rtf', 'odt' or 'pdf' files) and less than 32 MB. Please note that the first-time users of the PEAD system have to create an account and follow the submission instructions.

Guidelines for authors

• Only original, unpublished yet scientific papers will be published in Power Electronics and Drives.
• All articles will be reviewed by minimum two reviewers.
• There are no page charges: the journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges.
• The manuscripts submitted for publication in PEAD should not exceed 20 pages of PEAD's template.
• The manuscripts, written in UK English, should be typed using a PEAD template (please remember that equations must be written using MathType or Miscrosoft Equation 3.0).
• Papers that fail to meet basic standards of literacy are likely to be declined immediately by the editors.

(More information)

Recommended Template

The following templates are recommended to prepare a paper for PEAD journal:
(PEAD template in Word)
(PEAD template in PDF)

Since 2018, the PEAD journal has been published in a printed version once a year! (Articles appear on the web page continuously).


Statistic indexes

The total acceptance rate of the journal is equal to 74.78% (60.98% in 2023).
(More statistical information)

Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief:
Teresa Orlowska-Kowalska
teresa.orlowska-kowalska/at/pwr.edu.pl
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology,
Department of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements
Smoluchowskiego 19, 50-370 Wrocław

Deputy Editor-in-Chief:
Mateusz Dybkowski
mateusz.dybkowski/at/pwr.edu.pl
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology,
Department of Electrical Machines, Drives and Measurements
Smoluchowskiego 19, 50-370 Wrocław

(Editors)
(Associate Editors)
(Editorial Advisory Board)
(Reviewers)

Publisher

Power Electronics and Drives is published by Sciendo.

Bogumila Zuga 32a
01-811 Warsaw, Poland
info@sciendo.com
+48 22 701 50 15

(Power Electronics and Drives in Sciendo)