MPCE Enlarged Editorial Board Meeting Was Held in Boston
On United States local time July 19, 2016, the enlarged editorial board meeting English academic Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy was held in Boston, USA at the same time the IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES) General Meeting was held. Professor Qinghua WU from South China University of Technology was invited to chair the meeting.
First and foremost, Mr. Yuan REN, the business director from US Office of State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), delivered a welcome speech to all present on behalf of the US Office of SGCC. And then the Honorary Principal of State Grid Electric Power Research Institute, Editor-in-Chief of MPCE, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Yusheng XUE made a report on the annual development from July 2015 to June 2016 and the achievements since June 2013. He also expressed his heartfelt thanks to the editorial board members and the experts for their great contributions to MPCE.
Present at the meeting were 40-odd editorial members and invited experts from 11 countries and regions, namely, China, USA, Canada, Australia, Spain, the UK, Greece, Denmark, India, South Korea and Singapore etc. Editorial board members and experts attending the meeting were all highly spoken of and thanked for their enlightening opinions and suggestions for improvement on higher international influence of MPCE and organization of excellent articles, turning the hall into a site of active atmosphere and enthusiasm typical of a complete success.
Through the meeting, not only was the association between MPCE editors and experts strengthened, but also numerous invaluable suggestions were proposed for rapid enhancement of the level of internationalization of MPCE, further promoting international academic exchange and cooperation in the field of electric power and energy, which is of far-reaching influence and instrumental significance.
Started in 2013, MPCE is all along determined to take the road of internationalization proposed by Professor Yusheng XUE. The Editorial Board of the periodical is composed of world-famous experts in the field of electric power and energy. To date, it has been indexed by 9 major databases at home and abroad including Science Citation Index (SCI) and Scopus. In June 2016 MPCE obtains the first impact factor 0.975, ranking the first of periodicals in the field of electric power and energy indexed by SCI in Asia and entering Region Q3 of global ranking.