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IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
Impact Factor: 5.4
Scope:
The IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion publishes both research and application-oriented articles dealing with the development, design, operation, modeling, analysis, diagnostics and control of electrical equipment used to convert any kind of energy (such as mechanical, chemical and solar) into electrical energy and vice versa. Any electric power generating apparatus based on fossil, renewable, nuclear or unconventional sources and used for either centralized or distributed generation systems is of interest for the journal. The scope also includes any kind of equipment used to convert electric into mechanical power, such as electric drives, machinery and actuators. Electrical energy storage and electrical energy production from storage are covered. Power electronics and control should not be the primary research contribution of the papers. They are of interest only when they are part of the energy conversion process being described, such as power electronics converters treated as a part of electric drives, or grid interfaces for electric power generation or electric energy storage devices.
Paper Categories
Topics within the journal scope:
Electric Machinery:
- Direct current machines
- Permanent magnet machinery systems
- Switched and variable reluctance machines
- Integral horsepower induction machinery
- Wound rotor induction machinery
- Single phase induction motors
- Electronic drives for electric machinery
- Induction generators for grid and isolated applications
- Synchronous generators
- Motor/generator sets for pumped storage
- Synchronous motors
- Electrical machinery theory
- Numerical analysis of electric machinery
- Power processing equipment
- Insulation for electric machinery
- Application of magnetic materials to electric machinery
- Application of superconducting materials to electric machinery
Energy Development and Power Generation:
- Excitation systems
- Power system stabilizers
- Advanced and renewable energy technologies
- Station design, operations and control
- Modeling, simulation and control of power plants (electrical aspects)
- Monitoring and instrumentation of power plants (electrical aspects)
- Control of distributed generation
- Hydroelectric power plants (electrical aspects)
- International practices in energy development
- Solar/photovoltaic
- Wind
- Biomass
- Batteries
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Fuel cells
- Superconducting magnetic energy storage
- Flywheels, mechanical, hydraulic energy storage
- Distributed storage
- Industrial/commercial energy conservation
- Grid interconnection
- Tidal/wave power
- Other
Nuclear Power Engineering:
- Nuclear power plant controls (electrical aspects)
- Modeling, simulation and control (electrical aspects)
- Monitoring and instrumentation (electrical aspects)
Examples of topics out-of-scope:
- Papers without a clear focus on electrical and electronics engineering aspects
- Papers dealing with power transformers
- Papers dealing with power system topics without a focus on energy conversion units
- Papers dealing with power electronics without any link to energy conversion apparatus such as electrical drives, electrical power production or electrical energy storage equipment
Types of Papers Published
The journal publishes three types of papers:
- Research papers
- Application papers
- Survey papers
Research papers are expected to present innovative solutions, new concepts and methodologies, original ideas or technology solutions resulting from a solid and sufficiently mature research work. In research papers it is essential that the authors clearly identify the novelty of their findings. An adequate survey of the most relevant publications in the same technical area should be provided in the introduction to highlight the novelty of the work with respect to the existing knowledge and literature. It is also necessary that results are supported by an appropriate validation. This can be achieved presenting tests on small-scale laboratory prototypes or full-scale apparatus, whenever possible, but there are instances where collecting experimental data is reasonably unfeasible or too challenging. In such cases accurate independent validations against numerical simulation results can be acceptable. The models and methodologies used for simulations, though, need to be clearly illustrated and, as a reviewer, you should pay special attention to their soundness and reliability. Finally, theoretical papers, including a significant amount of advanced mathematical or conceptual elaborations, are welcome on condition that authors demonstrate the actual or potential engineering application of their research – for instance through case studies or practical examples – as well as the technical soundness of final results.
Application papers are expected to illustrate the application of new technologies or report data, information and practical experiences collected on real systems or apparatus. These papers may not result from a research activity but need to provide very useful, complete and experimentally supported information which can be of high interest or strong help for researchers, practitioners or professionals working in the field. In this sense, contributions from the industry are particularly welcome. The readership expects that these papers provide a very detailed description of the products or processes to which the application refers, usually including pictures and schematics, and present complete experiments, measurements, statistics, on-field experiences and lessons learnt which can impact on a broad audience in the power engineering community. For application-oriented papers, discussions based on mere simulations or calculations are not sufficient and the authors are expected to clearly identify the interest of the material being presented in the context of currently existing applications or in view of new envisioned developments.
Survey papers (also known as review papers) are usually accepted upon invitation and should be written by highly authoritative experts in the field. They are expected to provide a clear, complete and up-to-date description of the state of the art, criticality analyses as well as future expected challenges and developments in a given technical area of interest for the journal readership. The quality of a review paper needs to be assessed very carefully because good surveys can attract many citations and strengthen the journal positioning in the paper field while poor surveys can be detrimental to the journal prestige. For this reason, review papers generally need a relatively high number of favourable reviews to be accepted for publication. One basic requirement for a good survey manuscript is that it should be comprehensible also by readers who are not experts in the fields, but simply interested in gaining a general up-to-date knowledge on the subject. It is also important that the state-of-the-art description be complete and such to cover all the latest cutting-edge advances as well as major criticalities, challenges and prospects, which implies an unusually large number of recent highly-relevant references.
In case you are interested in having an invitation to submit a survey paper in a given area, please send an email to the Editor-in-Chief with a complete description of your and your co-authors’ expertise and publication record in that area.
Each submission will be reviewed according to different criteria depending on which of the three categories it matches.
Peer Review
The articles in this journal are peer reviewed in accordance with the requirements set forth in the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board Operations Manual (https://pspb.ieee.org/images/files/files/opsmanual.pdf). Each published article was reviewed by a minimum of two independent reviewers using a single-anonymous or double-anonymous peer review process. For a single-anonymous peer review process, the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors, but the reviewers know the identities of the authors. For a double-anonymous peer review process, the identities of the reviewers are not known to the authors and the identities of the authors are not known to the reviewers. Articles will be screened for plagiarism before acceptance.
About resubmission of a rejected paper
Rejected papers should not be resubmitted without being substantially revised. After revision, rejected papers can be resubmitted no sooner than 3 months after the date of the rejection. A resubmitted paper will be treated as new submission and must adhere to the same page limit as any other newly submitted paper. If the paper is rejected for the second time, the paper cannot be resubmitted any more even if further modified. The authors must also indicate in the letter to the editor how the paper has been modified. Since the resubmitted paper is not treated as a revision, the authors should not include a separate document in which they address the comments of the reviewers. All modifications should be briefly stated in the letter to the editor. If the paper was rejected from one of the PES journals and the authors have revised the paper and resubmit it to another PES journal they must also indicate in the letter to the editor which journal the paper was submitted to originally and what was the reference number of the rejected paper.
Policy on papers published at PES financially sponsored conferences:
The Authors who have presented the paper(s) at the IEEE PES financially sponsored conferences listed below are eligible to submit the extended version of their conference paper(s) to one of IEEE PES Transactions for consideration of publication. The extended paper requires at least 60% additional new material relative to the original conference paper and is subject to a regular review process of the respective PES Transactions. The original conference paper should be referenced in the extended journal paper and new contributions with respect to the conference paper clearly identified. The final decision for publication on the extended paper is made by the Editor-in-Chief of the respective journal.
- PES General Meeting
- IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D)
- IEEE PES Grid Edge Conference & Expo
- PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (Latin America, Europe, Asia. Middle East)
- PES PowerTech
- PES PowerAfrica
- IEEE PES GTD Grand International Conference and Exposition Asia (GTD Asia)
- IEEE Electrical Energy Storage Applications and Technologies Conference (EESAT)
- IEEE PES Energy & Policy Forum
- IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power & Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC)
Publications Policies
- IEEE PES Publications Policies for Authors [PDF 559KB]
Open Access
This publication is a hybrid journal, allowing either Traditional manuscript submission or Open Access (author-pays OA) manuscript submission.
The OA option, if selected, enables unrestricted public access to the article via IEEE Xplore. The OA option will be offered to the author at the time the manuscript is accepted. If selected, the OA fee as outlined below must be paid before the article is published in the journal. If you have unusual circumstances about this, please contact the Editor-in-Chief. Any other applicable charges (such as the overlength page charge) will be billed separately once the manuscript formatting is complete but prior to the publication.
The traditional option, if selected, enables access to all qualified subscribers and purchasers via IEEE Xplore. No OA payment is required.
Article Processing Charges (APCs)
US$2800 for articles submitted in 2026
- IEEE Members receive a 5% discount
- IEEE Society Members receive a 20% discount
- Discounts cannot be combined
- Discounts do not apply to undergraduate and graduate students.
Corresponding authors from low-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) are eligible for discounts on article processing charges. For more information, please visit the IEEE Author Center or Learn more about the program.
Table of Contents & Abstracts
Volume 41, Issue 1, March 2026
Volume 40, Issue 4, December 2025
Volume 40, Issue 3, September 2025
Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2025
Volume 39, Number 4, December 2024
Volume 39, Number 3, September 2024
Volume 39, Number 2, June 2024
Volume 39, Number 1, March 2024
Volume 38, Number 4, December 2023
Volume 38, Number 3, September 2023
Volume 38, Number 2, June 2023
Volume 38, Number 1, March 2023
Volume 37, Number 4, December 2022
Volume 37, Number 3, September 2022
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Paramesh Chintala
Giampaolo Devito
Luigi Di Noia
Anton Dianov
Davide Fonseca
Gianvito Gallicchio
Peng Gao
Yuting Gao
Milad Golzarzadeh
Pedro Gonçalves
Yasser Gritli
Reemon Z. Haddad
Amir Hassannia
Malihe Heidary
Bin Hu
Wei Hu
Mohammad Sadegh Khajouie Zadeh
Sang Bin Lee
Antti Lehikoinen
Đorđe Lekić
Ya Li
Jingchen Liang
Xudong Liu
Zekai Lyu
Federico Marcolini
Runar Mellerud
Krzysztof Pienkowski
Akbar Rahideh
Avo Reinap
Ghasem Rezazadeh
Emad Roshandel
Ram Khelawan Saket
Chirag Ramgopal Shah
Yuki Shimizu
Ghulam Jawad Sirewal
Ahmed Tameemi
Haoyue Tang
Marek Toman
Hossein Torkaman
Amedeo Vannini
Likun Wang
Wei Wang
Qiu Weijin
Chao Wu
Jinquan Xu
Liang Xu
Mi Yan
Hengliang Zhang
Yuqiu Zhang
Xiaoqin Zheng
Haoxiang Zong
Recent Improvements
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Over-length Page Charges
Transactions papers are limited to 10 pages at first submission. Papers exceeding 10 pages will be returned without review. Revised papers submitted in response to Revise and Resubmit decisions may exceed 10 pages. For papers submitted 1 January, 2024 or later the over-length page charges are $250 per each page in excess of the first 12 published pages. For papers submitted 1 January, 2023–31 December, 2023 the over-length page charges are $200 per each page in excess of the first 10 published pages. Papers submitted prior to 2023 will have over-length page charges of $150 per page for anything in excess of the first 8 published pages.
Useful Links
Preparation and Submission of Transactions Papers
Templates and Sample of PES Technical Papers
Manuscript Submission Site for the IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
Every effort will be made to complete the review of your manuscript in three months. If the review has substantially exceeded three months, you may send an inquiry to . Be sure to include the manuscript ID number.